naija news today 290119

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has officially announced … Read more via Ladun Liadi’s Blog – http://bit.ly/2COWHoN Get More Nigeria Political News

Report has it that Arsene Wenger was paid £17.1million pounds by Arsenal when he left the club last year. The amount … Read more via Laila’s Blog – http://bit.ly/2HQvhov Get More Nigeria Sports News

A Nigerian-born British lawmaker Fiona Onasanya , has been jailed for three months for lying following an investigation by the police. The expelled Labour MP who was found guilty of perverting the course... Read more via Nairaland – http://bit.ly/2UoxKYo Get More Nigeria Metro News

A heavily pregnant woman has delivered a bouncing baby girl right at the PDP campaign ... Read more via Tori News – http://bit.ly/2HBxCU8 Get More Nigeria Metro News

Photo News President Buhari Arrives Aba for the Commissioning of Ariaria Electricity … Read more via Nairaland News – http://bit.ly/2MEWGIt Get More Nigeria Metro News

Rights activist, Femi Falana (SAN) has accused the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) … Read more via Nairaland News – http://bit.ly/2HEA0cG Get More Nigeria Metro News

Ahead of the emergency meeting of the National Judicial Council (NJC) on Tuesday, the office of the attorney-general of the federation (AGF) has sent a list of criminal allegations against Water Onnoghen to the body, TheCable can report. Insiders at the ministry of justice informed TheCable...

President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria and Nigerians are constantly on his mind. The president stated this on Monday at the closing ceremony of a workshop on voter education organised by the All Progressives Congress directorate of election planning and monitoring. Buhari said his...

The ministry of foreign affairs has described reactions from United States, United Kingdom and the European Union over the suspension of Walter Onnoghen, chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), as inimical to the well-being and development of Nigeria. The executive arm of the government had come under...

Good news: Nigeria has moved up four places in the Transparency International corruption perception index (CPI) for 2018, according to the latest report unveiled on Tuesday morning. The country is ranked 144 out of the 180 countries that were surveyed last year — an upward movement of four...

Aliko Dangote, president of Dangote Group, says his investment in the sugar sector will create 150,000 jobs and place Nigeria on the global map of sugar producers. Dangote said this on Monday in Lagos during the 2018 Dangote Customers Celebration and Food Distributors’ Award Night, organized...

The 1st Vice President of the Confederation of African Football, who is also the President of AFCON Organizing Committee, Nigeria’s Amaju Melvin Pinnick has pledged that the continental football-ruling body is doing everything within its power to ensure that the 32nd Africa Cup finals holding in...

Lawyers, under the aegis of Lawyers In Defence of Democracy and some civil society groups opposed to last Friday’s suspension of Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, by President Muhammadu Buhari, took to the … Read more via Vanguard News Nigeria – http://bit.ly/2HFvdYq Get...

Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has told National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Lanre Issa-Onilu, to let the Imo State chapter be. According to the governor, Issa-Onilu and his cohorts have done enough harm by imposing an intruder and member of the Peoples...

A teacher has been apprehended after she sent nude photos to a 17-year-old student on Snapchat and then asked if he wanted to play ‘naked hide and seek.’ Kelsie Schmidt, 22, who taught math at Beulah High School in North Dakota, allegedly sent the X-rated pictures to a student … Read more...

The Nigerian Air Force says its Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation LAFIYA DOLE , has destroyed another terrorists’ hideout in Limberi, in Northern Borno. The NAF said the ATF also neutralised activities of some terrorists at Limberi, a cluster of small, co-located … Read more via P.M. News –...

SOME elders from Abia State under the aegis of Concerned Abia Leaders, have called on both President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Judicial Council, NJC, to probe the suspension of resumed trial of the former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, over alleged … Read more via Vanguard...

The United States on Monday announced sanctions against Venezuela’s state oil company in a coordinated effort with the main opposition leader to cripple embattled President Nicolas Maduro’s power base. The measures against state-owned PDVSA were presented as a way of preventing the leftist...

The Nigeria Taekwondo Federation (NTF) says that 12 countries have confirmed their participation in the Nigeria International Taekwondo Open, holding from Feb. 8 to Feb. 10 in Abuja. Chika Chukwumerije, a board member of the NTF in Lagos said that adequate arrangements have been put in place...

Variety has confirmed that Disney has set out a one-week engagement for “Black Panther” to return to theaters to celebrate Black History Month during Feb. 1-7, at 250 participating AMC theatres. According to the media house, the tickets are free for everyone, and there will be two showings per...