naija news today 210918

The Independent National Electoral Commission says 435,015 registered voters in Osun are yet to collect their Permanent Voter Cards. Mr Olusegun Agbaje, the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Osun... Read more via Punch Newspapers – https://ift.tt/2Dm0UUF Get More Nigeria Political News

Former Kano State governor and presidential aspirant, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has said he has the capacity to defeat incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari. He also said he would ensure there is peace, security and infrastructure if voted in as president in the 2019 general election. He said … Read...

Alcohol kills three million people worldwide each year more than AIDS, violence and road accidents combined, the World Health Organization said Friday, adding that men are particularly at risk. The UN health agency’s latest report on alcohol and health pointed out that alcohol causes more than...

Twelve villagers were killed and 14 injured in an attack by suspected jihadists on a village in a gas-rich region of northern Mozambique, a local source told AFP on Friday. Since October, the southeast African country’s golden vision to exploit its gas reserves has been thrown … Read more...

Uganda has expressed readiness to embark on nuclear energy project to meet the increasing demand of electricity, Mr. Simon Giu D’Ujanga, Uganda’s State minister for energy, unveiled the plan at the International Atomic Energy conference in Vienna, Austria. D’Ujanga said the east African...

The Federal Government has suspended indefinitely the takeoff of the proposed national carrier scheduled for December 24. Though the Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, who announced the... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2O419Yk Get more: Nigeria...

It’s a lit Friday as Timaya and Olamide cop up a banging tune for their fans Bam Bam. Timaya addresses the rumours that he does not “sing again” while Olamide sings about his hustle.... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2NZD5pr Get more Nigeria Entertainment News

Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho has confirmed that Diogo Dalot will not start in Saturday’s Premier League clash against Wolves. Dalot earned rave reviews from the likes of Rio Ferdinand and Paul Scholes after making his professional debut for the club against Young Boys during the...

Tennis players around the world have continued to commend the decision of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) to change the annual Governor’s Cup Lagos Tennis to a new repackaged Lagos Open Tennis Championship. The chairman of the LOC, Chief … read more via P.M.EXPRESS –...

Super Eagles star, Alex Iwobi, has stated that Arsenal’s players are “working a lot harder in training” under Unai Emery. The Gunners won the fourth match in a row against Vorskla in the Europa League on Thursday night, with Iwobi impressing on the left side of the … Read more via Daily Post...

Yobe government on Friday confirmed 906 fresh cases of cholera with 61 deaths and 50 others still on admission in hospitals across the state. Dr Muhammad Kawuwa, the Commissioner for Health, stated this in a statement in Damaturu on Friday. He said Acute Water Diarrhea (AWD) cases were...

A nursing mother, Mrs. Lilian Owoyemi, may have reportedly carried out her threat to her neighbour in Lagos, Mrs. Chibuzor Omotenyshe, as she told Chibuzor that she will never have a child in the compound. P.M.EXPRESS reports that Mrs. Chibuzor got pregnant and Lilian engaged her in … Read...

Chairman of Esan West local government area, Hon Patrick Aguinede, has faulted the Nigeria Police report that the killing of some students at a graduation party on Tuesday night was cult related... Read more via Leadership Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2OFjt7e Get More Nigeria Metro News

A 29-year old male teacher attached to the popular Down Syndrome Foundation School in Surulere, Lagos, has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a female student of the facility..... Read more via P.M.EXPRESS – https://ift.tt/2Nt3rky Get More Nigeria Metro News

The police have arrested two suspects, Mr. Michael Isaac, 30 and Oluwaseyi Samuel, 40, over the abduction of an 11-year old girl and engaging her in sex romps for five days in Lagos.... Read more via P.M.EXPRESS – https://ift.tt/2PXdU4s Get More Nigeria Metro News

The associations comprising Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Afenifere, Ohaeneze Ndigbo, Pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, and Middle Belt Forum, yesterday warned that the alleged practice of vote-buying threatens the conduct of the next elections in Nigeria. They warned that if the practice was not...

In this interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, a former Governor of Kano State and a presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, speaks about some of the party’s plans, ahead of the 2019 general elections.... Read more via Channels...

The Coalition for United Political Parties, CUPP, has called on the Governor of Lagos State Akinwumi Ambode, to resist alleged precondition for seeking re-election given to him by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the state.... Read more via Daily Post Nigeria –...

Ever since he took office as governor of Cross-River State in 2007 through his departure in 2015, Liyel Imoke has maintained a somewhat dignified silence on his predecessor, Donald Duke’s tenure in office from 1999 to 2007. Imoke Yesterday,Imoke. however, fired back at Duke, who has been...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday said it is determined to stamp out corruption in Nigeria’s electoral process. The anti-graft agency in a statement signed by its Head, Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, said this is aimed at... Read more via Channels Television...