naija news today 300618

Last Tuesday no doubt was a black day for troops of Operation Whirl Stroke, OPWS, a military spike operation put in place to check the attacks by the resilient herdsmen in Benue state that have claimed close to 700 lives since the beginning of … Read more via Vanguard News –...

The Managing Director of Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr Fidet Okhiria, has been ordered jailed for three months over contempt, a Lagos High court judge said today. Justice Mojisola Olatoregun ordered he should be imprisoned prison following his perpetual refusal to appear in court...

Amidst controversy and fears, Olujonwo Obasanjo, son of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, and beautiful Temitope Adebutu, daughter of billionaire businessman, Kessignton Adebutu, married in May, 2017. The elaborate wedding ceremony, which was witnessed by the crème of the society, had held...

Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen Tukur Buratai said some external forces may be behind the recent violence on the Plateau and in some North-Central States to destabilise the country. “We’re not ruling out the possibility of external forces destabilising the country,” Buratai declared at a press...

Parents and guardians are especially rattled by the ugly news that young girls were initiated into various confraternities after passing through initiations that involved gang rape and orgies. The unsavoury facts came to light in the wake of a mass arrest carried out by the anti-cultism squad...

One of the four lawmakers suspended by the Imo state House of Assembly on Wednesday for alleged unparliamentary conducts, Nkenna Nzeruo, representing Oru East, has accused the speaker and the 21 other lawmakers of witch hunting him. He claimed that he was suspended because he rejected …...

Acting Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences commission (ICPC), Musa Abubakar, says corrupt politicians cannot successfully carry out their corrupt practices if civil servants refuse to cooperate with them. Abubakar said this on Thursday at an event organized...

The Speaker of the Osun State House of Assembly, Mr. Najeem Salam, says despite the efforts by some politicians to witchhunt him, his dream of becoming the next Governor of Osun State remains valid. On Thursday at the state secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the lawmaker …...

Former Deputy Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Leyii Kwanee, and a pro-APC group known as Rivers Unity House, said on Friday that they had begun the process of reconciling the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, and the lawmaker representing Rivers South … Read more via...

President Donald Trump denied Friday he is planning to withdraw the United States from the World Trade Organization. “I’m not talking about pulling out,” he told reporters on Air Force One when asked about reports he was planning an exit from the the … Read more via Channels Television –...

The 38-year-old gunman who carried out a deadly assault on a newspaper office in Annapolis had barricaded a back door hoping to “kill as many” as he could, authorities said Friday, confirming he pursued a years-long vendetta against the paper. Police said the … Read more via Channels...

Super Eagles attacker, Ahmed Musa was on Friday ‘mobbed’ by excited fans as he showed up at the National Mosque in Abuja to observe the Juma’ah Prayers. He was surrounded by fans who showed their appreciation for his efforts and that of his team mates in Nigeria’s … read more via Daily Post...

Tiger Woods roared into contention for his first victory since 2013, matching the best round of his injury comeback with a five-under-par 65 Friday at the US PGA Quicken Loans National. With a spectacular chip-in and four putts beyond 15 feet among his seven birdies, the 14-time major winner...

An Abuja High Court 2, sitting in Maitama District and presided over by Justice Salisu Garba, has discharged and acquitted Air Vice Marshal Mohammed Alkali Mamu, over a four-count charge bordering on bribe-taking and gratification. AVM Mamu, a former Fleet Personnel Officer, Presidential Air...

An industrial action may be looming in the oil industry as the Port Harcourt zone of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers has issued a 7-day ultimatum to one of the oil companies operating in the zone for alleged unlawful disengagement of some of … Read more via Daily Post...

Air Peace on Friday urged members of the public to ignore a recorded voice message warning them not to patronise the airline and some other air and land transport companies. The airline, in a statement signed by its General Manager, Corporate Communications, Mr Chris Iwarah described the …...

Agitators for the restructuring of political and economic structures of the nation on Thursday re-echoed their demand for return of Nigeria to regions and cancellation of the 1999 ‘military constitution’. They spoke at a colloquium organized by a Think-Tank Group, Voice Of Reason (VOR) at the...

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday received the President of Togo H.E. Mr Faure Gnassingbe in Katsina State, his hometown. President Gnassingbe was also received by the Governor of Katsina, Mr Aminu Bello Masari and his deputy, Mannir Yakubu. During the meeting, both Presidents discussed the...

Nigeria bishop warns of genocide against Christians Catholic faithful attend a requiem Mass for the victims of Benue State herdsmen attack at St Leo Catholic Church, Nigeria on May 21, 2018 before staging a peaceful protest to condemn the killings in Benue State, North Central of Nigeria...

Information Minister Lai Mohammed defends the government’s record, talks up Buhari’s 2019 chances, and discusses the challenge of misinformation. The words typically used to describe Lai Mohammed in private are the ones you might expect. After all, to survive a … Read more via African...