naija news today 300318

Nigeria’s Senate President Bukola Saraki and the ruling All Progressives Congress Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, were conspicuously absent at the 10th Bola Tinubu Colloquium held Thursday in Lagos. Also absent at the event put in place to mark the 66th birthday of the APC national leader was...

Is this acceptable?Why will these people be allowed to openly carry arms in Zamfara state?

Tunde Bakare, pastor of the Latter Rain Assembly, says Nigerians can shut down the government as a result of herdsmen killings in recent times. Bakare spoke on the sidelines of “the real cost of subsidy”, an event organised by Enough is Enough, a coalition of youth advocacy groups. He said the...

Following a recent Big Brother task, the female housemates were restricted from using the bathroom for the main time. They were then forced to bath outside in bikinis this morning. READ MORE HERE

Heads of the nation’s security agencies have expressed worry over alleged ongoing attempts by some groups to disrupt the processes leading to the 2019 general elections. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, disclosed this in a statement made...

A Nigerian woman has shocked Twitter community after disclosing that she just got married to her husband after dating him for 14 years. The woman by name Lil’Ma with the handle @lilmatohbahdt wrote: “After 14 years of dating, he came to pay my bride price 4 days ago #PJAY18 ❤. Read more via...

The three senators from Kaduna state, led by Shehu Sani on Thursday blocked the approval for a $350million loan request by Governor Nasir El-Rufai. It was like a vengeance of sort as all the senators spoke against the loan. El-Rufai has had a very poor relationship with the trio, even...

Passengers stranded, airlines cancel flights The public holiday declared by the Lagos State Government yesterday in honour of President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit cost the state N1.28 billion of its revenue, analysts at Proshare Nigeria have said. In a note issued on Wednesday, the analysts...

Eleven soldiers of the Nigerian Army killed in an ambush attack by bandits at Birnin Gwari area of Kaduna State on March 20 were buried at a very solemn occasion on Thursday. The soldiers, identified as Bamidele Adekunle, Christian Oguchukwu, Adam Muhammad, Sulaiman Mubarak, Bashir Sani, Usman...

Big Brother Naija 2018 housemate, Bambam has revealed she’s aware her romantic partner, Teddy A, has another woman outside the show. Bambam said she was now helplessly in love with Teddy A, who had in more one occasion talked about his baby-mama. READ MORE HERE

The political romance between President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu, which has been rekindled by the 2019 presidential election, waxed stronger yesterday when both men in separate speeches assured Nigerians that the...

On Thursday the Holy See stated that a reported interview between Pope Francis and an Italian journalist, which claims the Pope denied the existence of hell, should not be considered an accurate depiction of Francis’ words, but the author’s own “reconstruction.” A recent meeting between Pope...

Pope Francis says hell – believed to be a place of condemnation for deceased sinners – does not exist. The pontiff reportedly said this in an interview with Daily La Repubblica, an Italian newspaper. “There is no hell where the souls of sinners suffer in eternity,” he was quoted as saying...

Femi Fani-Kayode blast the vice president of Nigeria, Prof Osinbajo. Fani-Kayode said Osinbanjo is a disgrace and a traitor to his faith and race via his twitter handle

There was a mild drama, Thursday, at the State Command of the Nigeria Police headquarters, Lokoja, as the incoming Commissioner of Police, Esa Sunday Ogbu, was not available for handover. The outgoing CP, Ali Jaga came to the office in company of AIG of Police Zone 8, expecting to see the new...

Kinsmen and family of the late Nigerian Civil War veteran, Joseph Achuzia, yesterday banned all symbolic representation of the Movement for the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and the Biafra Independent Movement (BIM), during the funeral of the Biafran...

President of the African Development Bank and Ex-Honourable Minister of Agriculture, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Akinwumi A. Adesina‏ has lost his father. He announced it on social media with a touching message: My darling father and best friend, Roland F. Adesina, passed away yesterday...

The curse placed on human traffickers in Edo state by the Benin monarch, Oba Ewuare 11, has led to the death of three persons including a young man from the state who was based in Napoli, Italy, Vanguard reports. The young man whose name has been withheld, was said to be a notorious human...

If you are a Christian, and you believe that the Lord Jesus Christ Is the Eternal Son Of God, and that He died for all your sins, then for you, Good Friday is the most sorrowful, the most solemn, and yet, one of the holiest days of the entire year. Indeed, it is not a day for celebration, it is...

The remains of the 11 soldiers killed by bandits in Kompanin Doka village in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State were laid to rest thursday in Kaduna with full military honours. The state government also donated N500,000 to each family of the deceased soldiers during their burial...