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Former Chelsea boss, Jose Mourinho was close to tears during an interview at the weekend as he admitted he missed football. Mourinho’s last managerial job was with Manchester United where he was sacked in December.... read more via Naijaloaded | Nigeria’s Most Visited Music & Entertainment...

Real Madrid are set to launch a final £60m bid for Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Christian Eriksen, who has made it very clear to the London club that … read more via “real madrid” – Google News – https://ift.tt/2NeHfJx Get More Nigeria Sports News

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced 15 companies as winners of its 2019/2020 Direct Sale of Crude Oil and Direct Purchase of Petroleum Products (DSDP) arrangement. The announcement was made via a press release on Sunday by the Corporation’s Group General Manager...

The Federal Government (FG) is planning to commence an auditing revenue assurance and Information Technology audit on the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS). In a statement disclosing this development, the Auditor-General of the Federation, Anthony...

The Presidency has described as untrue the Financial Times report suggesting that Nigeria has placed restrictions on importation of agricultural products into the country. Buhari had ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) not to release foreign exchange for food importation.... Read more...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has resumed investigations on the members of staff of the Federal Inland Revenue Service over N1.2 billion Duty Tour Allowance (DTA) fraud. The EFCC on Friday began a forensic analysis of the bank accounts of the FIRS staff … Read more via...

A memo, purportedly written from the office of the Chief of Staff to the President Abba Kyari to the Chairman of the FIRS, Babatunde Fowler circulated around social media on Sunday. ... Read more via Nairametrics – https://ift.tt/2ZbvxSm Get More Nigeria Metro News

Mother of former Super Eagle coach, Samson Siasia, is still in kidnappers’ den more than four weeks after she was abducted. This was even as fresh information reached New Telegraph that the kidnappers, who had earlier demand N70 … Read more via Newtelegraph – https://ift.tt/2P1FGBd Get...

The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Mr. Nnamdi Kanu on Sunday August 18, offered a N1 million reward for a leak of the overseas travel plan of Southeast governors. In his 87 minutes broadcast which centered on the attack on Senator Ike Ekweremadu in Germany by members of …...

Chinese investments in the oil and gas industry of Nigeria have reached $16 billion, according to a senior official at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, but the industry needs even more to advance its production growth agenda. Vanguard quotes NNPC’s Group Managing Director Malla...

AIICO Insurance Plc has appointed Babatunde Fajemirokun as its managing director. A statement from the firm said the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NSE) had already been notified of the appointment. The Company Secretary, Donald Kanu, said the appointment had been approved by the National Insurance...

The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) N3.8 trillion six-year Notes will mature in 2023, a report by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has shown. According to the CBN’s Annual Activity Report, the AMCON Bond was issued in December 2014 at six per cent interest rate and have …...

Timi Dakolo had taken to his Twitter to set the records straight after a blogger published a report claiming that the singer’s family visa application got denied by the United States Embassy in Nigeria. Per the report, the Dakolos planned to flee abroad because of their legal battle with COZA...

Linda Osifo has taken to her Instagram page to celebrate how far she has come as she marked the 6th year of leaving Canada to pursue an acting career in Nigeria. The actress revealed that she lived in Canada for 15 years before relocating to Nigeria. Also advising those scared to … via...

On Saturday Music Entrepreneur Ubi Franklin made a post asking people to stop allowing motivational speakers pressure them into becoming Entrepreneurs and Alex replied saying Ubi was standing on the table as well…. via Stella Dimoko Korkus.com – https://ift.tt/2TI2CUG Get more Nigeria...

Mr Real makes a return to the music scene with a new single titled “Oloun”, a street banger produced by Cracker. Mr Real joins forces with indigenous rappers Phyno x Reminisce and no.1 street disc jockey, DJ Kaywise for “Oloun... via tooXclusive – https://ift.tt/2YXGV8V Get more Nigeria...

Ripped Denim pants is in Vogue Amongst Nigerian celebs and as we see,we bring here….... via Stella Dimoko Korkus.com – https://ift.tt/31Mgm3C Get more Nigeria Entertainment News

The immediate past national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has warned that the party in Edo State continues to live dangerously amid the latent face-off between Governor Godwin Obaseki, and National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole. According...

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB has accused Ebonyi State governor, Dave Umahi of ordering the arrest and detention of Ezza people to dispossess them of their land for the suspended Rural Pastoral Grazing Areas (RUGA) of the Federal Government. In a statement Saturday signed by its...

FORMER military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has charged Nigerians to ensure they identify themselves as Nigerians all the time. He said Nigeria is a country to be proud of; adding that whoever wants to denounce his citizenship should have a rethink... Read more via Stella...