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The Independent National Electoral Commission has held a meeting over the judgement by the Supreme Court on the elections held in the state.... Read more via Tori News – http://bit.ly/2WmAwlO Get More Nigeria Political News

Katsina State government has on Friday announced stiffer penalty of a death sentence against kidnappers and cattle rustlers in the state. This was also as it penciled life imprisonment against … Read more via Vanguard News – http://bit.ly/2K0d0UZ Get More Nigeria Metro News

A 32-year-old passenger collapsed and died of a heart attack after reportedly attempting to strangle a female passenger during flight..... Read more via Olisa.tv – http://bit.ly/2HAZXI1 Get More Nigeria Metro News

Governor Aminu Masari has signed into law mandatory death sentence for anyone convicted of cattle rustling or kidnapping in Katsina State. Similarly, the offence of rape carries the.... Read more via Channels Television – http://bit.ly/2QmUyHk Get More Nigeria Metro News

In many large cities across Africa, motorcycle taxies are as common as yellow-cabs in New York. That includes Lagos, Nigeria, where ride-hail startup Gokada has raised a $5.3 million... Read more via TechCrunch – https://tcrn.ch/30HRQAQ Get more: Nigeria Business News

Kenya’s High Court has kept a law which bans gay sex. Gay-rights groups argued that the state has no business regulating matters of intimacy. However, religious groups said such matters should be guided by the country’s values. The penal code, which is a legacy of colonial-era rule...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar has commended the Supreme Court judgement which nullified the elections of all the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Zamfara in the last general elections. Abubakar in a statement issued by his Media...

A group of worshipers, presumed to be members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), also known as the Shiite Movement chanted ‘Allahu Akbar’ as President Muhammadu Buhari observed Juma’at prayers at the National … Read more via Daily Trust – http://bit.ly/2EtJ1RO Get More Nigeria Metro News

The management of Access Bank has threatened to publish the list of all its delinquent debtors. In a statement released on Thursday, the bank said it is acting in line with a directive from the.... Read more via TODAY.NG – http://bit.ly/2YErduW Get more: Nigeria Business News

Following the country’s natural resources, economic endowment and cultural diversity, President Muhammadu Buhari, Thursday asked the Ambassador of Israel to Nigeria, Mr Shimon Ben-Shosan, to explore the country and see the how beautiful it is. Buhari said Nigeria’s diversity will remain a...

A Plateau State High Court on Thursday issued an interim injunction stopping Gov Simon Lalong from tampering with the composition of the Gbong Gwom Jos Traditional Council. NAN reports that the injunction was issued by Justice Christine Dabup, after listening to Mr. Niri Darong, Counsel to...

Mavin boss; Don Jazzy granted his Instagram followers a sort of mini interview on the platform earlier today which was quite revealing. The singer and music business mogul is known to have a personality that is opened and receptive to every ‘sensible’ person and he once again proved that on...

Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy have been banned Indefinitely from the annual Ghana Music Awards. The ban was announced at a press conference the organizers of the awards held on Thursday in Accra to brief the press about the outcome organizers have taken. Announcing the sanctions for the two...

American former film producer, Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse accusers agrees to his $44 million settlement tentatively. The proposed agreement was disclosed in court on Thursday, following bankruptcy. The agreement is said to be seperate from the criminal charges against Harvey Weinstein in...

Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu, Lagos State Governor-elect, in this interactions with select journalists in Lagos speaks on his plans for Lagosians and what he intends to achieve in his first 100 days in office.... Read more via Nairaland – http://bit.ly/2QiFY3E Get More Nigeria Political News

The Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has said he does not know “if it is worth taking pains for the All Progressives Congress (APC).” Okorocha stated this while speaking when..... Read more via Daily Post Nigeria – http://bit.ly/2VWVqIG Get More Nigeria Political News

Juventus superstar, Cristiano Ronaldo, is set to be summoned to face rape allegations after lawyers for his accuser, Kathryn Mayorga, tracked down his address in Italy.... Read more via Daily Post Nigeria – http://bit.ly/2X2EoW1 Get More Nigeria Sports News

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said the Federal Government should be blamed for any further disruption of academic activities in the nation’s public universities, accusing it of failing to abide by the agreement reached with the union during the last strike.… Read more...

The Senate has passed a bill to convert the Yaba College of Technology, YABATECH, to City University of Technology..... Read more via Vanguard News – http://bit.ly/2EqlmBx Get More Nigeria Metro News

A Professor of Peadeatrics and Child Health at the Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo State, Dominic Osaghae, has revealed that Nigeria has the highest number of victims of sickle cell disease in the world, with 47.5 million carriers. Prof Osaghe stated this on Thursday while delivering the...