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Today's News Highlights Include: Buhari behaving like Abacha, planning to rig elections – Obasanjo https://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/just-in-buhari-behaving-like-abacha-planning-to-rig-elections-%E2%80%93-obasanjo-premium-times.370993/ Wike signs Appropriation Bill into law...

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state has declared that going by the way Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has managed the affairs of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the outgoing APC national chairman was apparently overrated by leaders of the party who had allowed him to succeed Chief Bisi Akande...

The Ogun State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in 2015, Prince Gboyega Isiaka, has resigned his membership of the party. READ MORE HERE

Wife of a commissioner in Zamfara and six children have been abducted by gunmen in the early hours of Tuesday at Gurbin Bore village in the state , the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Read more via Newtelegraph – https://ift.tt/2IWfJP3 Get More Nigeria Metro News

Alhaji Sule Lamido is a former governor of Jigawa State and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)presidential aspirant. He speaks to journalists during his visit to the Lagos State chapter of the party on the state of the nation, his aspiration for the 2019 general elections, among others. Read...

Contrary to speculation in some quarters, last Wednesday’s decision by the United States’ Federal Reserves to hike interest rates will have no significant impact on an emerging market such as Nigeria due to the country’s healthy foreign exchange reserves, New Telegraph’s investigations have...

Senator Rabi’u Musa Kwankwaso, representing Kano Central in the Senate has vowed to retire Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje from active politics come 2019 general elections,” and anybody try to help him”. In an audio voice message aired on a private radio station in Kano (Express FM) on...

Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan Kukah, has lambasted northern Muslim elite for using religion to hold on to power at the detriment of the region and the country as a whole Read more via Newtelegraph – http://ift.tt/2GHmsZU -- Get More Nigeria Political News

Less 24 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari visited Benue State to commiserate with the government and people over herdsmen murder of 73 people and other killings in the state, herdsmen on Tuesday made an incursion into Tse-Igbe in Nyiev council of Guma local government area of the state...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has constituted eight governors to gag the National Assembly not to veto President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to assent to the amended Electoral Act by the National Assembly. The party also said Nigerians...

Chief Ebenezer Babatope, a former Minister of Transport, is a member of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In this interview with TEMITOPE OGUNBANKE, he speaks on the opposition party’s preparation for 2019 general elections, the state of the nation, among other...

The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State yesterday dismissed reports that the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party had approved the extension of tenure of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party. Also yesterday, Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin...

Super Eagles manager, Gernot Rohr, has finally ruled out goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama’s return to the national team. The coach said the inability of the former captain of the team to secure playing time had played a huge role in his decision. read more via Newtelegraph –...

Nigerian power lifter, Paul Kehinde, on day three of the 9th Fazza 2018 World Para Powerlifting World Cup in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, broke his record set at the world championships in Mexico, last November. It was a supreme display by Kehinde who hauled up 221kg to break read more via...

One of the most absorbing and highly-anticipated tales of the PyeongChang Winter Games finally came to the fore on Tuesday as the Nigeria women’s bobsled team took to the track in heats one and two, to become Africa’s first Olympic bobsledders. In the first heat, which they read more via...

Just like a fairy tale, a 25-year-old man, Mr. Chiadi Ezeibekwe, said he impregnated his 17-year-old younger sister. As if that was not enough, he wedded her at a church at their Agba village in Ekwulobia, Anambra State. Agba youths, who saw the marriage as “an abomination,” burnt down the...

Governor Abdulaziz Yari has alleged that his administration gave security agencies 24-hour head-start to alert them on the impending invasion of communities in Zamfara by bandits that resulted in the death of 39 persons in Zurmi local government area of the state on Wednesday night. Speaking...

Preparatory to the 2019 general elections, the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is banking on seven people to challenge the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the presidential contest. The PDP’s plan is in place whether or not President Muhammadu Buhari is going to seek...

Eagles can shock Argentina –Okosieme Former Super Eagles winger Ndubuisi Okosieme, has expressed confidence that the team will make Nigeria proud at Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup. Okosieme, who is currently saddled with the responsibility of taking Dragon football club of Ekpoma, a newly-promoted...

Football stakeholders in Nigeria yesterday offered to give a helping hand to former Golden Eaglets World Cup winning captain and Super Eagles midfielder, Wilson Oruma, who suffered a relapse from a fatal depression that struck him six years ago via Newtelegraph – http://ift.tt/2EzPHLE Get...