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Reports indicated last night that the trial of the immediate past governor of Ekiti state, Fayose at a Federal High Court may begin on Monday. The ex-governor … Read more via NaijaGistsBlog – https://ift.tt/2CVuFua Get More Nigeria Political News

I mean no disrespect to other presidential aspirants, but the 2019 Presidential election is a two-horse between President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Anybody who disputes this should tell me the names...

Following Nigeria’s failed bid to advance from the group stage of the World Cup after losing to Argentina, Odion Ighalo was railed at for failing to convert begging chances against the Argies. Indeed, his life was threatened and fans called for his exclusion from the Super Eagles. However...

UFC president Dana White says he has not been contacted by anyone associated with Floyd Mayweather regarding a boxing match against Khabib Nurmagomedov, despite both camps expressing interest in public. “Don’t pay attention to it,” White told ESPN. “First of all, the Mayweather team has not...

Fellow Nigerians, if you are not yet on any social media platform, or you are one of those still doubting the efficacy of the new revolution in town, you are certainly on a long thing, to borrow one of those popular slangs of today’s … Read more via Thisdaylive – https://ift.tt/2ypP6M9 Get...

A survivor of last Friday’s pipeline explosion in Umuimo and Umuaduru communities in Osisioma Ngwa council, near Aba, Abia State, which consumed scores of lives, Mr. Christian Nwanmuo has said that poverty led him to scoop fuel from the leaking pipeline. Nwanmuo, who … Read more via...

Lagos Fashion and Design Week is no more. The design, an ambiguous aide, has been axed and Lagos Fashion Week is as it was always supposed to be. The gesture is symbolic for so many reasons. Eight years … via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper – Nigeria and World News – https://ift.tt/2P9QOdT...

Archbishop Emeritus of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, has blamed poor leadership skills as the reason why Nigeria still remains impoverished. And to come out of it, Okogie said the country needs leaders that would inspire and harness its … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper –...

Toyin Falola, one of Nigeria’s foremost Historians and currently the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas, Austin, United States (US), dissects various challenges confronting Nigeria and urges Nigerians to … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria...

President Muhammadu yesterday stated that it would take a decade of government attention to reverse the damage to environments in parts of the Niger Delta region. Receiving members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) at the.... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria...

The embattled Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Prof. Yusuf Usman, has allegedly vowed never to proceed on suspension as directed by the NHIS Governing Council, insisting that only the President … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper – Nigeria and...

My first article in this series “Relationship Pattern and Spread of HIV/AIDS” published on ThisDay Saturday 27th January, 2018 dealt broadly on relationship pattern within the family setting and between intending couples. Before i continue i wish to express my gratitude to all those who called...

The Fulani Nationality Movement, FUNAM, an umbrella organization of herdsmen has vowed to mobilize its members across the country to unseat Governor Samuel Ortom in the coming 2019 general election.... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2PLa7HG Get More Nigeria Metro News

A 50-year-old woman, Pastor Freda Promise Yohanna, has delivered triplets after 20 years of marriage in Bauchi. The happy mother, while speaking with our correspondent in her house in Guru area of Bauchi State, explained that although she went through a lot of terrible experiences in which...

The misgivings over cholesterol build up in the body system of adults above 40 years of age, who still consume eggs, was yesterday laid to rest as a family physician, Dr Oluwasegun Ojo, debunked the claim. The family physician, who is also a consultant with the Federal Medical … Read more...

Gunmen on yesterday kidnapped Mr Maiwada Galadima, the Paramount Chief of Adara Chiefdom in Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State and his wife along Kaduna/Kachia road. Mr Ibrahim Yakubu, a son in-law to the Chief, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), adding that the …...

On October 13, newspapers in Saudi Arabia released a pointed reminder to the citizens of the kingdom: Article 6 of the Anti-Cyber Crime Law stipulates a maximum five years in prison and a maximum fine of 3 million riyals ($800,000) for sharing rumours or fake news that breach … Read more via...

This is the first time Saudi Arabia has admitted the death of Jamal Khashoggi Journalist Jamal Khashoggi died after a fight in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, the country’s state TV reported quoting an initial probe. It said deputy intelligence chief Ahmad al-Assiri … Read more via BBC...