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Mr Netanyahu sees a nuclear-armed Iran as the greatest threat to world peace Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed what he says are "secret nuclear files" proving Iran is covertly pursuing nuclear weapons. He said 55,000 pages of material obtained by Israel … Read more via...

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THE United States (U.S.) has confirmed that the Federal Government had paid for the war planes. It said the 12 Super Tucano fighter jets and other weapons it agreed to sell to the Nigerian to combat Boko Haram insurgents … Read more via The Nation Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2JF0Tcv Get...

A court has ordered Abuja houses belonging to Patience Jonathan, wife of former President Jonathan to be forfeited to the FG. A Federal High Court in Abuja today (Monday) ordered an interim forfeiture of two properties linked to the wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan, Mrs. Patience...

An international consortium led by General Electric (GE) has signed an agreement with Nigerian officials in Washington D.C. to proceed with the interim phase of the Nigerian narrow-gauge railway concession. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that the agreement followed the award of...

The Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Boboye Oyeyemi, has expressed worry over the high rate of accidents at road construction sites in the country. Speaking with journalists in Abuja on Monday, Mr Oyeyemi said that most of the accidents were caused … Read more via...

A thirty-two-year-old Ghanaian banker whose car was hijacked by armed robbers and was almost killed found a police officer using the car two years after. Samuel Forson was attacked by four armed men who took his car, a laptop computer and other personal belongings in December....... Read...

The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has destroyed 14,360 tonnes of illicit drugs in Yola, Adamawa State. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the state commander of the agency, Mr Yakubu Kibo, made the disclosure during the public destruction and burning of the illicit...

As Nigerians continued to decry and churches accross the country protested the rising wave of killings due to mostly farmers and herders’ clashes in several states, especially the Middle Belt..... Read more via Thisdaylive News – https://ift.tt/2rbPOc4 Get More Nigeria Metro News

A Kaduna State High Court has adjourned till June 25, the suit on alleged defamation filed against the Union Newspapers by Governor Nasiru El-Rufa’i. The adjournment followed the non-tendering of the assets declaration documents of Mr El-Rufa’i by the Code of Conduct Bureau when he … Read...

President Muhammadu Buhari’s personal assistant on new media, Bashir Ahmad got answers he might not have expected when he asked Nigerians to react to the second term ambition of his boss on twitter. The presidential aide had asked Nigerians their assessment of the Buhari administration so far...

A former governor of Niger State, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has said that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will win the presidential as well as the Niger State governorship elections in 2019. Aliyu said the APC government at the state and federal levels had … Read more via Thisdaylive...

Legal luminary and elder statesman, Prof. Ben Nwabueze (SAN) has written to the leadership of the National Assembly, informing them that the legislature does not have the power to summon President Muhammadu Buhari for violating the Constitution … Read more via Thisdaylive –...

Justice Raliat Adebiyi of the Ikeja Division of the Lagos State High Court on Monday sentenced a senior lawyer, Joseph Nwobike, to one month in prison for attempting to pervert the course of justice. Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2jgZFcg Get More Nigeria Metro News

Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has hit back at perceived critics who he said were waiting for the expiration of his tenure to deal with him. Fayose said that ‘they would do so in vain’, when he was hosted at a … Read more via Naijaloaded News – https://ift.tt/2KpufNl Get More...

World football governing body, FIFA has cautioned Nigeria that it would not consult with any of the parties fighting for the leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) before throwing the country out of the game if it found that a third party had been meddling in the nation’s football...

Eminent businessman, influential politician and chieftain of the ruling All Progressive Congress, Orji Uzor Kalu, has called Olusegun Obasanjo a common criminal for ruining his third-term bid. Read more via Tori News – https://ift.tt/2I5z7ZO -- Get More Nigeria Political News

Army general Luis Garcia Meza, dictator of Bolivia from 1980-81, is escorted by police from the door of a police hospital to a vehicle waiting to take him to the Chonchocoro maximum security prison January 17. Garcia Meza, jailed for murder Read more via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper –...

An emotional Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) hugged son-in-law Ben Domenech and told him to “take care” of his daughter Meghan, Read more via More Top Stories – Google News – https://ift.tt/2jhMO9W Get more World News

A Nigerian female singer has fueled speculation of romance between Tiwa Savage and Wizkid, alleging that the musicians are dating, and that songstress is forcing herself on Starboy. via Tori News – https://ift.tt/2KkTj81 ------------- Get more Nigeria Entertainment News