naija news today 200819

Femi Falana (SAN), renowned human rights lawyer, has stated that many political leaders in Nigeria have called for revolution at one point or the other, and the call for revolution in the country is not new. Falana stated this on Monday, August 19 while speaking at a symposium organised …...

The police in Ogun State have narrated how a seven-year-old boy, Joshua Joseph, who was declared missing two years ago, was found with his ‘adopted mother’, Blessing Ozor, in Anambra. DAILY POST learnt that the adopted mother, Ozor, allegedly paid N1.05m for Joseph’s ‘adoption’.Ozor claimed to...

A topless sunbather confronted by an angry mom for baring her breasts at a public beach in front of a child responded to the complaint by stripping nude, according to police. Anna Lee Halderman, 28, of Norwalk, Connecticut turned herself into... Read more via News | Mail Online –...

Swvl – the Cairo-based commuter transit service — announced to several news sites in June 2019 that it would be expanding into Lagos, Nigeria with 50 buses. Despite a recent valuation of $157 million since its aggressive seed rounds over the past year, there has been no move on this.... Read...

A mobile payments company, Paga, has announced its crossing of N1.5 trillion in transactions since its launch in August 2012. It has also processed 87 million transactions, valued at N1.5 trillion or $5.4 billion using monthly nominal exchange rates... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria...

Pastor Ituah Ighodalo is the Senior Pastor, Trinity House, and Managing Partner, SIAO, an independent Nigerian professional services firm. In this interview with Vanguard, Pastor Ituah as he is fondly called speaks on the state of the nation, ruga, insecurity and way forward.... Read more...

Comedian AY is a year older today August 19th………….. via Stella Dimoko Korkus.com – https://ift.tt/2P1uZ1j Get more Nigeria Entertainment News

Nollywood actress Annie Idibia has a reply for those asking her to reveal the secret behind her beautiful ageless look……………….. via Stella Dimoko Korkus.com – https://ift.tt/2zd5CPz Get more Nigeria Entertainment News

It’s not even breakup season! But these relationships are out here ending left and right. Hold on tight, love birds! Unless you don’t want to. First, we brought you the sad news of Brody Jenner and Kaitlynn Carter, then the shocking split between Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth, and … via...

Asari Dokubo, leader of the Niger Delta Peoples Salvation Force, (NDPSF), has hit out at Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), over the attack on Ike Ekweremadu, former deputy senate president. In a video making round son social media, Dokubo condemned the attack...

Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara state locked scores of civil servants outside the main gate of the old secretariat in Ilorin, the state capital for late coming. The governor said to the civil servants that coming to work very late is not helpful for government business in the 21st …...

The Nigeria Football Federation announced yesterday that its lawyers have started to review the decision against former Nigeria player and coach Samson Siasia by the FIFA Ethics Committee, which on Friday announced that it had placed a life ban from all football-related activities on him...

Fenerbahce started their Turkish Super Lig campaign in style with a 5-0 rout of Gazisehir Gaziantep FK at the Sukru Saracoglu Stadium on Monday evening. As for team news, Victor Moses was preferred ahead of summer signing Turuc in the right wing role while forgotten Super Eagles striker...

Bob Arum has branded Eddie Hearn stupid for announcing Anthony Joshua’s rematch with Andy Ruiz Jr before the Mexican had signed a contract, reports metro.co.uk. Since Matchroom and Joshua confirmed the rematch would take place in Saudi Arabia... read more via The Guardian Nigeria News –...

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has said that it will strive to protect the country’s currency reserves after a British court ruling granted Process and Industrial Developments Limited, a natural gas firm, the right to seize $9 billion in assets from … Read more via Vanguard News –...

The total liabilities of 58 insurance companies in the country have increased to N1.084 trillion with the figure expected to rise above N1.25 trillion by the time all underwriting firms release their 2018 financial statements, LEADERSHIP learnt. A document sourced from the Nigerian Insurers...

Power output from Nigeria’s generating companies (GenCos) dropped to 3,014.8 megawatts (MW), yesterday from a monthly average of 3,578MW in August, latest data from the National Control Centre (NCC), Osogbo, has shown. The post Power generation drops to 3,014.8MW as FG … Read more via The...

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to deploy emerging technologies and ensure digital inclusion in tertiary institutions across the country. The … Read more via The...

The serene Ibianga community in Oruk Anam Council area of Akwa Ibom State was disrupted following activities of cultists that took over the area, causing the village head and other residents to flee their homes. Our correspondent gathered that hostilities reigned in the area since last …...

No fewer than one hundred families have been displaced by flood disaster in Jigawa state. Our correspondent reports that the families were rendered homeless in a flood incidence which swept across villages in Miga, Guri and Kaugama Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state. Though … Read...