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Babayaro was one of the ex-Chelsea stars that played in a tribute match for late coach Ray Wilkins. Former Super Eagles defender Celestine Babayaro was back in Chelsea colours as he starred in a Legends’ game against Inter Milan on Friday, May … read more via pulse.ng – Nigeria’s...

The boundary crisis between the Isu community in Arochukwu council area of Abia State and their Utuma neighbours in Biase council area of Cross River State has escalated with the killing on Thursday of a pastor of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Okereke Nchege, and over 10 others. The … Read...

An Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on Friday remanded 30-year-old refrigerator repairer, Stanley Mbagwe, in prison for allegedly defiling a nine-year-old girl. The magistrate, Mrs B.O. Osunsanmi, said the accused should be remanded in Kirikiri Prisons and the case file sent to the State...

Operatives of the Federal Special Anti-robbery Squad (FSARS), at Adeniji Adele Road, Lagos Island, Lagos have killed a suspected notorious robber, John Maxwell, aka Ahua. The operatives also arrested five others including a woman alleged to be the wife of the dead robber, and recovered two...

The leadership of Fulani pastoralist groups, yesterday, rose from an emergency meeting in Kaduna, urging President Muhammadu Buhari to call Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom to order over the anti-open grazing law in the state. They said the governor’s “actions are … Read more via The...

Over 24 hours after the National Industrial Court ordered members of Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) to call off their strike and resume work within 24 hours, the union members are yet to resume duties in Lagos State and across the … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper – Nigeria...

Governor Rochas Okorocha Political allies have taken to the streets to jubilate for paralysing Imo State governor Rochas Okorocha in the fight to take control of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). “There have been wide jubilation in Imo because we have rescued the party from Gov...

The former Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, Olusegun Adeniyi, on Thursday said the opposition parties had yet to demonstrate how they would defeat President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 despite their frequent calls on the electorate to … Read more...

Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, has alleged the All Progressives Congress (APC) of planning to connive with the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to rig July 14 election, using students of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti (FUOYE) as adhoc staff for the election, rather...

Abdullahi Adamu is a former Governor of Nasarawa state and a Senator. He leads what one might describe as the pro-establishment wing of the nPDP bloc in the APC. To him, the bloc has never had it so good, saying the Muhammadu Buhari administration has been very fair … Read more via...

Since the departure of Sen. Ali Modu Sheriff from the ruling All progressive Congress (APC) to the opposition Party, the People’s Democratic party (PDP) where he was made Chairman of the Party, the political atmosphere in Borno, especially with regards to the ruling APC in the state … Read...

Mavin First Lady, Tiwa Savage has just dropped her 3rd single of the year within the space of two months. The songstress recently blessed us with ‘Tiwa’s Vibe‘, a song that is still trying to get its … via TooXclusive – https://ift.tt/2Ivh7oy Get more Nigeria Entertainment News

The US, South Korea and Japan agreed this week to shift a planned flight of at least two nuclear-capable B-52 bombers so they would not fly over the Korean Peninsula, according to two US defense officials. The decision was made in the wake of North.............. Read more via CNN –...

cite quitting smoking as the single healthiest thing you can do for yourself. Cigarettes are responsible for more than 480,000 deaths every year in the United States, making smoking the leading preventable cause of death. Tobacco makes the risk of lung cancer and heart attack … Read more...

More than 100 people have died after a Boeing 737 airliner crashed near Cuba's main airport in Havana, the country's worst air disaster in decades. Three women were pulled alive from the wreckage, but are said to be in a critical............... Read more via BBC News –...

Rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs, also known by his stage names Puff Daddy and P Diddy, has been revealed as the buyer of a Kerry James Marshall painting that fetched $21.1m (£15.6m) at … via BBC News – https://ift.tt/2k8vpAX Get more Nigeria Entertainment News

Ten people have been killed and 10 others injured after a student opened fire at a Texas high school, the state governor said. The attacker, who was arrested and charged with murder, was identified as Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a 17-year-old pupil at Santa Fe High School...... Read more via BBC...

A stop and search operation carried out by the police in Gombe has resulted in the discovery of fake N22 million naira note. Vanguard reports that Shina Olukolu who is the state commissioner of police disclosed this while parading … Read more via Nigeria News today & Breaking news ▷ Read...

Windstorm and a downpour in Katsina state as six people lost their lives on Thursday, May 17 Five hundred houses were said to have been destroyed by the incident, while five people were injured. The Katsina State Emergency Management … Read more via Nigeria News today & Breaking news ▷...

Adamu Yusuf, an investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says that Tuoyo Omatsuli former Executive Director of Projects at Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), collected the sum of N3.65 million from Starline Consultancy Services Limited. In an affidavit he...