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The race for Kogi State governorship thickens with immediate past President, Association of Professional Bodies of Nigeria (APBN) and former President, Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Dr. Omede Idris, set to challenge Governor Yahaya Bello with a promise to turn the fortunes of the state for...

David Silva was lucky to stay on the pitch after a tackle on Manchester United midfielder Andreas Pereira. The Manchester City star kicked Pereira in the chest and did not even receive a card.... Read more via Daily Mail – https://dailym.ai/2XLQxyL Get More Nigeria Sports News

Seeing people act selflessly these days is a big deal. A gateman has rejected the offer of a house as parting gift from his Indian employer and instead requested for a borehole to be constructed for his community. Musa Usman, who hails from Giljimmi, a Fulani settlement in Birniwa … Read...

The euro fell against the U.S. dollar on Wednesday after a surprise drop in a leading indicator for economic activity in Germany highlighted the divergence between economic data in the United States and the euro zone. German business morale deteriorated in April, bucking expectations for a...

Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Hon. Cecilia Abena Dapaah has stated categorically that President Akufo-Addo’s promise of making Accra the cleanest city in Africa will be achieved at the end of his two terms … Read more via Headline News in Ghana – http://bit.ly/2GEEXzv Get...

157 children from Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Benin, Togo are among the 220 human trafficking victims rescued in an operation coordinated by INTERPOL. Just after 157 children from Nigeria and other African countries were rescued by INTERPOL, it was gathered that a number of human trafficking...

Under the Arabian sun, a monumental construction effort is making headway. Located deep within Dubai's desert interior, the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park -- named after the emirate's ruler and the UAE's vice president and prime minister -- continues to grow and has just passed...

Parents and educators have been worrying about the “dying art” of handwriting for years, as smartphones and laptops have lead some classrooms to spend less and less time on teaching the fine art of writing in cursive. Sara Hinesley, a third-grade student in Frederick, Md., though, finds...

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has denied claims that it owed the Rivers Internal Revenue Service (RIRS) N50 billion. NDDC director of corporate affairs, Charles Odili, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt yesterday, expressed surprise at the.... Read more via Leadership...

Following the recent frenzy that has been buzzing on social media for a while now after it seems that there’s some celebrities who endorse Cyber Crime amongst youths, Nigerian singer, Jire, has waded in on the topic.... Read more via YabaLeftOnline – http://bit.ly/2Zx6kDi Get more Nigeria...

One of the women who accused R. Kelly of sexual assault has won a civil lawsuit against him. The woman had accused him of sexually assaulting her when she was a child.... Read more via Olisa.tv – http://bit.ly/2L0lpdd Get more Nigeria Entertainment News

The Senator representing Kaduna Central at the Senate, Shehu Sani, has said that he is not convinced that the All Progressives Congress(APC) has learnt from their mistakes that led to the emergence.... Read more via P.M. News – http://bit.ly/2ZtzTWh Get More Nigeria Political News

Atletico Madrid delayed Barcelona winning La Liga by a few days at least after Alvaro Morata and Antoine Griezmann each scored in a 3-2 victory over Valencia on Wednesday. Defeat at the Wanda Metropolitano would have crowned Barca kings of Spain for a 26th … read more via P.M. News –...

Arsenal manager, Unai Emery, has said his team can take heart from their second-half performance against Wolves, after telling them to forget about the first 45 minutes. The Gunners’ top-four ambitions took a dent on Wednesday night, as they succumbed to a 3-1 defeat. Ruben Neves, Matt …...

The Rivers State House of Assembly yesterday declared its support to the decision of Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, to suspend 12 local government council Chairmen in the state. Wike had in a letter of Notice of Suspension, addressed to the Speaker of the House, informed the lawmakers of …...

COMMISSIONER for Information and Strategy Akwa Ibom State, Charles Udoh yesterday said the Ibom Air would commence commercial flight operations across Nigeria ahead of the swearing-in of Governor Udom Emmanuel into office for the second term on May 29, 2019... Read more via Vanguard News –...

The federal government Wednesday revealed how illegal mining activities aggravated insecurity in Zamfara before its April 7 prohibition order and launch of special operations to stop bandits in the state. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who featured at a Nigerian...

A 28-year-old woman has been arrested in Chachoengsao’s Phanom Sarakham district, Thailand for allegedly selling her five-year-old daughter for sex in exchange for payments of Bt200 to Bt300 each time, provincial police deputy chief Pol Colonel Kriengkrai Boonson told the press on Monday. The...

The United States has expended a total of $495 million for malaria control in Nigeria under the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) which began in 2011. The fund was deployed to the distribution of more than 26 million long lasting insecticidal bed nets, 23 million malaria rapid … Read...

IT'S A FEELING familiar to anyone who lives an extremely online life. You spend all day on Twitter watching Howard Schultz get roasted and ratioed or retweeting all of the best definitions of the.... Read more via Wired – http://bit.ly/2vme0dr Get more World News