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BBNaija Season 3 Winner, Miracle Ikechukwu, yesterday (or so)paid a courtesy visit to Singer Paul Okoye (of the Defunct PSquare) and his family in Lagos... via Stella Dimoko Korkus.com – https://ift.tt/2Ld8XCT Get more Nigeria Entertainment News

About three persons were killed and several persons displaced after suspected herdsmen attacked another community in Benue State. The attack came barely 24 hours after Vice President Yemi Osinbajo left the state. DAILY POST gathered that the latest attack occurred on Thursday in Ukemberagya...

Senator Dino Melaye, Senator representing Kogi West constituency is back on social media after his last Instagram post on April 23rd and subsequent brouhaha with the powers that be in Kogi state….. The embattled Senator has also been thanking those who supported him whilst he was down…...

No fewer than 19 postgraduate students granted scholarships by Presidential Amnesty Programme have alleged abandonment by the Federal Government. The students, who are currently in their final year at People’s Friendship University of Russia, alleged that Paul Boroh, sacked coordinator of the...

A picture is gradually emerging of the victims of murder suspects transferred to Abuja on Wednesday by the police. At least two of the victims whom the police described as “innocent persons” in a statement on Wednesday were individuals the Kwara State police command had … Read more via...

The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr Mudashiru Obasa, on Thursday urged Nigerians not to relent in their prayers for peace and unity in the nation Obasa said this in his Ramadan message............... Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2IvTzjt Get More Nigeria Metro News

All Progressives Congress (APC) Imo State stakeholders have said that they have made Gov. Rochas Okorocha politically irrelevant in their determination to rescue the party from imminent collapse in the state. Dr Theo Ekechi, who spoke to newsmen after a close-door meeting with the APC national...

Supporters of former President Barack Obama’s proposed presidential library and museum were joined by protesters as a key city commission met Thursday to determine whether to grant approval for construction to begin. On a patch of sidewalk outside of City Hall, a group in blue T-shirts and...

A new case of Ebola has emerged in an urban area of Democratic Republic of the Congo, a troubling development in the country's new outbreak of the contagious and often fatal virus. Until now, the outbreak had affected a rural area. Dr. Oly Ilunga, Congo's minister of health, announced Wednesday...

Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, on Thursday, expressed commitment to continually utilise sports as a veritable tool to productively engage youths towards developing their talents. Governor Dickson gave the assurance in Yenagoa, while speaking at the quarter- final draws Ceremony of...

State governors have alleged an inflation by almost 50 per cent in the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) figures on petrol consumption and demanded a probe of oil subsidy payments from 2015 till date. After a meeting with the Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Wednesday night, …...

Women with aggressive breast cancer can be be effectively cured in half the time compared to current treatment, minimising harmful side effects, researchers have said. A new trial of patients suffering from HER2-positive breast cancer found survival rates were almost identical among those...

Russian President, Vladimir Putin held a rare meeting with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on Thursday and said the situation in Syria is now favourable for the beginning of a “political process” which would lead to the withdrawal of foreign forces. “After the military success (of the Syrian army...

The Nigerian Army has vowed to track down the perpetrators of Birnin Gwari attacks that left at least seven dead and five others injured. Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai said the army would collaborate with other security agencies in dislodging ...

Some supporters of the All Progressives Congress have continued to protest against the conduct of the local government congresses in Imo State. Dozens of aggrieved party members stormed the APC National Secretariat, Abuja, on Thursday to seek the intervention of the party’s leadership in what...

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the last governorship election that produced the Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, was characterised by “hanky-panky,” describing it as an unfortunate saga. He, therefore, called on the leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress to do...

The Kwara State caucus of the House of Representatives has accused the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, of misleading Nigerians and playing politics with the recent controversy surrounding arrested crime suspects in Kwara. In a statement signed on behalf of the members by Razak …...

Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike addresses PDP faithful ahead of the state’s Local Government polls on June 16, 2018 in Port Harcourt on Thursday. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has commenced campaigns ahead of the Rivers State local government elections on June 16, 2018. The event which...

No African country has won the FIFA World Cup, which is in its 21st edition this year, but many pundits from the continent believe this is the time to break the jinx. And which team is better suited for the task than the Super Eagles. A continent wide survey by Kenya-based...

It’s meant to be a cash cow, but the state oil company of Africa’s biggest producer is bleeding money. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, the Abuja-based behemoth that dominates Nigeria’s energy industry, … Read more via Thisdaylive – https://ift.tt/2IpQ1Dc Get more: Nigeria...