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Comrade Oladimeji Odeyemi, a security analyst and a counter-terrorism expert, is the Convener of Coalition of Civil Society Groups Against Terrorism in Nigeria. In this interview with WALE ELEGBEDE, he speaks on the position of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on security... Read...

Cristiano Ronaldo has become the first Instagram user (besides Instagram) to gather 200 million followers on the platform. The football star announced the milestone by sharing a photo montage on Wednesday.... read more via Linda Ikeji’s Blog – https://ift.tt/3aMiH3M Get More Nigeria...

Real Madrid thrashed Real Zaragoza 4-0 on Wednesday to ease into the quarter-finals of the Copa del Rey, stretching their unbeaten run to 20 games. Raphael Varane, Lucas Vazquez, Vinicius Junior and Karim Benzema all scored at La … read more via P.M. News – https://ift.tt/3aT6HNU Get More...

A self-confessed Nigerian cyber fraudster and drug-dealer, Dan Aiyegbusi has been jailed for five years in the UK. Following a proactive investigation by the Met’s Cyber Crime Unit (CCU), Aiyegbusi, 23, of Eastern Boulevard, Leicester, was sentenced on.... Read more via Linda Ikeji’s Blog –...

Police said the suspects would be charged to court upon completion of investigation. Kaduna State Police Command has arrested a pastor, Clement James for allegedly kidnapping himself and demanding a N5m ransom from his family members. In a statement by Yakubu Sabo, the command’s spokesperson...

The United Arab Emirate on Wednesday January 29, confirmed Middle East’s first cases of the deadly Coronavirus. A family of four who arrived the country from Wuhan (the Chinese city where the virus broke out at the end of 2019), were diagonosed with the flu-like virus..... Read more via...

Police are looking for a youthful woman suspected of killing her 78-year-old German lover in a hotel room in Malindi, Kilifi County, Kenya on Monday night. The deceased has been identified as Detering Herman, a tourist of passport number C3K6FV281.... Read more via Welcome To Ladun Liadi’s...

Considering the recent spread of Coronavirus across the world, the Federal Government has now shut down Panda Supermarket in Abuja. According to the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), the store was closed after seafood and animals imported illegally from China was...

Recalcitrant bank debtors under Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) surveillance have a fresh legal battle to face this year, New Telegraph learnt over the weekend. AMCON has resolved to criminalise debt cases with links to insider abuse as a means to fast track recovery, an...

Pan-Yoruba group, Afenifere, has rejected the position of the Nigerian Government to include ‘Operation Amotekun’ under its community policing strategy and have it function as mere informants for the police. The group, after a meeting held in Akure, Ondo State, said that … Read more via...

Former First Lady of Lagos State and lawmaker representing Lagos Central Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Oluremi Tinubu, has called for the establishment of state police as a way of tackling the rising spate of insecurity in the country. Tinubu made the call during plenary on …...

The Presidency has attacked Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe for calling for the resignation of President Muhammadu Buhari over the rising spate of insecurity in the country. Earlier on Wednesday, Abaribe had said, “Nigerians will go to the government and ask the government to resign because they did...

The Urhobo Progress Union (UPU) has debunked insinuations that the association is enmeshed in crisis influenced by extraneous forces from the Delta State Government House, Asaba. It insisted that rather the group was forging ahead and positioning stronger for a better … Read more via The...

A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr. Kingsley Moghalu, has faulted the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, that the Igbo need to pitch their tent with either the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News –...

To say that Boko Haram is bent on slaughtering every Christian it can lay hand on is very accurate. But there’s another side to this long-held narrative. A lot of Christians may find it hard to believe that BH also murder, maim, dismember, bludgeon and rape Muslims … Read more via Sahara...

Barely four days after fire leveled the Amu plank market in Mushin, the popular Balogun market on Lagos Island was yesterday razed in an inferno that consumed no fewer than seven high-rise buldings and shopping plazas. … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News –...

Following the reported cases of rising cases of contagious diseases across the nation, Anambra state Commissioner for Health, Dr Vincent Okpala, has assured that the Ministry is alert and fully prepared to respond to any outbreak of Lassa fever in the … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News...

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said Nigeria may lose two million children to pneumonia in the next decade if modalities are not put in place to curb the disease. The UN body identified malnutrition, air pollution and lack of access to vaccines and … Read more via...

The surface of our sun is a wild, violent place and now we can see it in exquisite detail, thanks to the first images returned by the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope based in Hawaii. The ground-based telescope will work with NASA's Parker Solar Probe... Read...

The Supreme Court said Monday it will allow the Trump administration to begin enforcing a controversial new policy making it harder for low-income legal immigrants to obtain green cards or visas. Read more via Yahoo News – Latest News & Headlines – https://ift.tt/2GwXop4 Get more World News