naija news today 210318

The Presidency on Wednesday confirmed the release of students of Government Girls’ Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State who were abducted by the Boko Haram sect on February 19. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, made the confirmation...

The recent claim by some stakeholders in the telecoms industry and particularly the reserved bidder, Smile Communications, that due process was not followed in the sale of 9mobile has been confirmed by Barclays Africa, the financial adviser handling the sale of 9mobile. Read more via...

TomTom, a product from the staples of Cadbury Nigeria PLC and the Nigerian Football Federation has signed a new three-year agreement that will make Tom Tom the official candy of the country’s national football team, the Super Eagles. Read more via Nairametrics – http://ift.tt/2DIywqo Get...

Contrary to a Bloomberg’s report claiming that Milost Global Inc plans to invest $1bn in Unity Bank Plc, the Bank has unequivocally stated that it has not reached any agreement with Milost to warrant such speculation. Read more via BusinessDay – http://ift.tt/2Gb1m85 Get more: Nigeria...

India has confirmed the deaths of 39 construction workers kidnapped by Islamic State militants (IS) in Iraq. Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said the DNA of 38 workers matched with bodies found in a mass grave. Read more via Welcome To Ladun Liadi’s Blog – http://ift.tt/2G0xhF0 Get more...

Olusiji Ijogun is expected to reposition Konga on the path of sound corporate governance. Nigeria’s leading e-commerce giant, Konga, has appointed Olusiji Ayodele Ijogun as the new Chairman to reposition the company on a path of sound corporate governance after Zinox acquisition. Read more...

Oil prices rose to their highest level in three weeks on Tuesday as tension in the Middle East and the possibility of further falls in Venezuelan output helped offset United States crude production. The post Middle East tensions, Venezuela concerns boosts Oil price appeared first on PM …...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that an electronic fence along the Israel-Egypt border has saved the Jewish state from jihadist attacks or what he believes would be worse – a tide of African migrants . Read more via The Times of India – http://ift.tt/2GO08hc...

The police in Lagos have arrested the owner of Collabor Hotel , an inn on Ige Street in the Iyana Ipaja area of the state , for allegedly hosting underage sex workers in the facility . The owner of the hotel, John Okon, was apprehended along with the hotel manager, Emmanuel Thomas . Their...

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has said the country cannot survive if the North were to leave, as it called on its leaders to save the region from negative narrative about it. This was contained in a statement by the Chairman of the ACF Ibrahim Coomassie. He made this comment when the...

A prophetess named Vivian, who hails from Adeso-Oden in the Eastern Region of Ghana has warned Ghanaian Dancehall act, Shatta Wale, to apologize to pastors he has attacked or faced the wrath of God. Speaking on Daybreak Hitz on Hitz FM Tuesday, Prophetess Vivian said if Shatta fails to heed the...

Boko Haram has reportedly returned all kidnapped Dapchi girls back to Dapchi township in Yobe, unfortunately, five of them are dead. READ MORE HERE

Ahead of the 2019 governorship election in Imo State, the Orlu Council of Elders have said they will not support any candidate from the zone, including Chief Uche Nwosu, the son-in-law of Governor Rochas Okorocha. The elders said there must be equity and social harmony in the state. This was...

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday said the $3bn allegedly embezzled during the last administration through the Strategic Alliance Contract with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company could have been used to construct seven major roads and...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s media assistant, Mr. Reno Omokri, on Tuesday asked the General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, to call Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo to order for accusing Jonathan of sharing N150 billion two weeks to the 2015...

Students at a college in the southern Indian state of Kerala have been protesting after a professor compared student’s breasts to melon. A video recording of the comments came to light on the internet over the weekend, drawing angry responses. Some took to the streets, holding up slices of...

Israel released images purportedly showing the suspected reactor during the 2007 air raid Israel’s military has formally admitted that it destroyed a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007. Read more via BBC News – http://ift.tt/2DFJL33 Get more World News

Abuja Minister of Communication, Adebayo Shittu, has tasked the Federal Government to trace innovators of the defunct Biafra who are still alive for them to deploy their technological know-how towards the nation’s drive for industrialisation. Read more via The Sun News –...

Two years after the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari announced that the country was in advanced talks with China for a currency swap deal, the scheme has failed to take off. The development now appears like a similar move made earlier under the administration of Goodluck Jonathan in...

Disturbed by the recent attack by suspected herdsmen on Enyanwu Igwe community in Izzi council area of Ebonyi State where four persons were killed and several property destroyed, the Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) has asked South East governors to ban open grazing in Igboland. Rising from a...