nigeria news today 050618

A woman went to an Igando customary court in Lagos seeking dissolution of her 4-year-old marriage and accusing her husband of conspiring with an Islamic cleric to sleep with her for 3 days in order for his business to become successful. READ MORE HERE

Iran is to tell the United Nations it will begin increasing its uranium enrichment capacity in case the multinational nuclear deal severely weakened by the U.S. withdrawal last month collapses. Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi told the ISNA news agency that the...

The Senate Minority Leader, Godswill Akpabio, has reacted to a media attack by his former aide against the Akwa Ibom Governor, Udom Emmanuel. The former aide, Clement Ikpatt, in a recent article posted on his Facebook page, accused Mr Emmanuel of inaugurating a fertiliser repacking … Read...

The International Air Transport Association on Tuesday said Nigeria has repatriated the $600 million, belonging to international airlines that was trapped in the country due to foreign exchange shortages. The Director-General of IATA, Mr Alexandre de Juniac, on its website gave the credence at...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House said on Monday its policy of tough sanctions on North Korea has not changed, days after U.S. President Donald Trump said he no longer wanted to use the phrase “maximum pressure” to describe the campaign to press North Korea to give up its … Read more...

Dr Jumoke Oduwole, Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Industry, Trade and Investment. Dr Jumoke Oduwole, the Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Industry, Trade and investment, says the Federal Government will support the South-south region to...

Governor Abubakar Bello of Niger on Monday, June 4, refuted allegations that the Sunday night attack by some gunmen on Minna Medium Prison was as a result of activities of some condemned criminals. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.......... Read more via Nigeria News today &...

Over 20 billion sticks of cigarettes are consumed annually in Nigeria, the Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, has said. Mr Adewole also said 4.5 million adults currently use tobacco products, while about 82 per cent of people who visit bars and nightclubs are exposed.......... Read more via...

A brazen couple were caught appearing to have sex while riding a giant ferris wheel hundreds of feet off the ground. Shocked passengers can be heard laughing in disbelief while recording the couple from the next cabin. The footage was shot as the ferris wheel … Read more via Welcome To...

The secretary-general, Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), Ishaq Oloyede says the organisation has reached out to Boko Haram over the continued captivity of Leah Sharibu. Sharibu was among the 112 kidnaped kidnapped schoolgirls from the Girls Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe...

The national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja, was literally turned into a battleground, yesterday, when state officers, who emerged from parallel congresses conducted recently, jostled for … Read more via Nairaland – https://ift.tt/2JgJAi5 Get More Nigeria...

Femi Fani-Kayode, the former minister of aviation has attacked President Muhammadu Buhari over his statement on the Nigeria/Biafra civil war. Buhari had during a meeting with the Red Cross Society at the presidential villa said that the Nigerian Army was soft … Read more via Naijaloaded |...

An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan yesterday adjourned the ongoing trial of former governor of the state, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala and two others over N11.5billion alleged fraud to June 29, 2018. The defendants, including a former Oyo State commissioner for Local Government and...

The Nigeria Police Force has dismissed the trigger-happy mobile policeman who shot former House of Reps member, Hon. Opeyemi Bamidele and five other party faithful last Friday. The culprit opened fire at the All Progressives Congress (APC) secretariat during the welcome rally held for the...

Former aide to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri has claimed that Senate President, Bukola Saraki has repeated the mistake Atiku Abubakar made in 2003, by not using the power he had in his hands. In a series of tweets on Monday, Omokri alleged that Saraki stopped the Senate from …...

Sadio Mane has reached an agreement to join Real Madrid from Liverpool, according to reports in France. The 26-year-old has played a pivotal role in Jurgen Klopp’s attack alongside Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino, scoring 20 goals … read more via Metro – https://ift.tt/2sFZAmK Get More...

The Champions League Final is over, lost, and in truth, we’d rather forget about it and focus on this summer and next season. But we cannot ignore the news which broke last night. Bild initially claimed that our German keeper Loris Karius passed 26 of … read more via The Empire of The Kop...

When Melissa Ohden was 14 she learned a shocking secret her mother had tried to abort her. She was saved by a nurse who heard her crying as she lay among … Read more via BBC News – https://ift.tt/2sGfVYQ Get more World News

A former US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer has been arrested for attempting to spy on the US for China. Ron Rockwell Hansen, 58, was arrested by the FBI on his way to a Seattle airport to catch a flight to China. The justice department says Mr Hansen … Read more via BBC News –...

Apple will attempt to frustrate tools used by Facebook to automatically track web users, within the next version of its iOS and Mac operating systems. "We're shutting that down," declared Apple's software chief Craig Federighi, at the firm's developers conference..... Read more via BBC News...