naija news today 230618

Argentina’s forward Lionel Messi (C) warms up during a training session at the team’s base camp in Bronnitsy, on June 23, 2018, during Russia 2018 World Cup football tournament. Lionel Messi and Argentina hit the training ground … read more via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper – Nigeria...

Read more via – Apanews.net – https://ift.tt/2MQrbel Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, said on Thursday in Abuja that the feeding programme was one of the components of the Social Intervention Programme of the federal government. She said that the Social...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his main rival Muharrem Ince on Saturday traded blows in mass rallies on the final day of campaigning for Turkey’s most fiercely contested elections in years. Turks vote on Sunday in snap twin presidential and parliamentary... Read more via The Guardian...

Former President Obama will travel to Kenya and South Africa next month for an Obama Foundation initiative, where he will meet with the presidents of the two countries and hold a town hall with 200 African leaders. A press release from the former president’s office states that Obama will meet...

In Africa, our biggest threats are also opportunities. By 2035, 450 million Africans will have joined the working age population, more than the rest of the world combined in that time. They will power our economies forward, as long as there are jobs they have the knowledge to … Read more...

Roger Federer of Switzerland celebrates after defeating Denis Kudla from the US in their match at the ATP tennis tournament in Halle, western Germany, on June 23, 2018. CARMEN JASPERSEN / AFP Roger Federer booked his 12th career final at the ATP Halle grass tournament on Saturday, beating …...

Argentina football legend, Diego Maradona, says he is ready to bring his experience and wisdom to the national team, as they stand on the verge of early elimination from the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Maradona is demanding access to the team’s training ground, in a bid … read more via...

Chechnya leader Ramzan Kadyrov has made Egypt’s talismanic striker Mohamed Salah an honorary citizen of the southern Russian region at a farewell banquet held for the eliminated World Cup 2018 side. Chechnya has been hosting the Egyptian team’s World Cup training camp and Kremlin-backed...

29-year-old Muritala Babatunde, the killer of Oriade Adebisi aka Oh Dollar, 22, and his girlfriend, Julian Eke Imaga, 18, both students of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State, has been arrested alongside one of his accomplices, Taiwo Rasak, 18. While being paraded yesterday, Muritala...

This handout picture taken on June 22, 2018 off the coast of Libya and received from the German NGO “Mission Lifeline” shows migrants boarding a container ship of Danish shipping company Maersk Line after they were rescued from a shipwrecked vessel at sea. Danilo CAMPAILLA / Mission Lifeline...

The Nigerian Army says its men on Friday killed seven Boko Haram terrorists and recovered weapons in Azaya Kalmari village in Mafa local government area of Borno State. Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, Deputy Director Public Relations, Theatre Command Operation Lafiya Dole, disclosed this in Maiduguri...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is currently meeting with prominent Yoruba leaders, in what is believed to be part of moves to forge a common front, ahead of the 2019 general elections. DAILY POST gathered that the meeting is taking place in the home of Afenifere chieftain, Pa … Read...

Today, some 6,800 delegates of the governing APC will elect the party’s national officers at its convention in Abuja. About 42 positions are up for grab. About 20 of the aspirants will however be elected unopposed. Adams Oshiomhole is already set to become the national chairman of … Read...

“Youth of the State” under the Coalition of Youth in all the three Senatorial Zones of Kaduna State has met and resolved to urge Hon. Aminu Abdulfatah to make himself available for the exalted seat of Kaduna State Governor in the forthcoming elections in 2019. The group that … Read more...

Two men, Ayo Tayo, 33, and Chidozie Innocent, 20, have been arrested in Lagos for engaging a 13-year old girl in marathon sex and watching themselves in action. The incident occurred on 6 May, 2018 at Anuoluwapo Street in Ejigbo, Lagos where they resided. LEADERSHIP Weekend gathered the …...

The minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCTA), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, has described as frightening, the increase in the number of women who abuse drugs and are addiction to such in the society. Speaking at a one-day workshop on ‘Women and Substance Abuse: Implications for Building a …...

The world’s smallest computer, completely dwarfed by a grain of rice, was invented by researchers at the University of Michigan. The device that measures just 0.3 mm will lose all the data and programming when switched off, unlike other desktop computers. “We are not sure if they … Read...

Several people were killed Saturday in a blast at new Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s first rally in the capital attended by tens of thousands of people, state media reported. Abiy had just wrapped up his speech in the heart of Addis Ababa when the explosion went off, … Read more via...

Johannesburg – President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned that the ANC risked losing next year’s general elections if the governing party remained riddled with divisions. Addressing hundreds of delegates at the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) national congress in Ekurhuleni on Friday, he said...

There is something so vivid and truthful about Nearly Thirteen, the 12-year-old heroine of Anna Mackmin’s debut novel Devoured, that I spend the opening half of our interview asking which bits were drawn from Mackmin’s stranger-than-fiction childhood and which were cooked up in her imagination...