nigeria news today 26012018

Thirty registered political parties have resolved to field and support one presidential candidate within the coalition for the 2019 general elections. The parties, under the aegis of Coalition for a New Nigeria (CNN), have Alhaji Abdulkadir Salam of the Labour Party (LP) as chairman, Barrister...

US president Donald Trump has said he is prepared to apologise for retweeting posts from a British far-right group. In an interview with ITV’s Piers Morgan, Mr Trump said he knew nothing about Britain First before sharing three of its videos in November. via BBC News – http://ift.tt/2rJdM12...

A Moroccan-born Muslim trainee lawyer, Asmae Belfakir, was ejected from an administrative court in northern Italy last week for refusing to remove her hijab. At a hearing in a regional administrative court in Bologna, Belfakir was asked by Judge Giancarlo Mozzarelli to either remove her...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, January 24, 2018, arrested one Fidelis Iruedo, a suspected love scammer, for allegedly defrauded a United Kingdom citizen of £30,000 (N15,428,354) in a romance scam. Luck ran out of Iruedo, 31, after a petition to the Commission...

A story of how a mother ignored her crying daughter who had a scorpion in her shoe has gone viral. The story was originally shared on Facebook by Adiela Nosu who narrated how a teacher found out her student had a live scorpion in her shoes after she couldn’t stop crying via Nairaland –...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has stated that over 1.6 candidates have been recommended for admission in the 2017/2018 admission year from various tertiary institutions . Of that amount, only 500,000 have accepted their admission as at the time of filling this report...

One of the leading telecommunications services provider Bharti Airtel Limited, says that it has received an approval for the acquisition of Tigo Rwanda Limited, a subsidiary of Millicom International Cellular, from the Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority. Airtel said in a statement that the...

Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) on Thursday said the Abuja-Kaduna standard gauge line has begun daily express train service from Abuja to Kaduna. Mrs Nafisa Bello, the Principal Public Relations Officer, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. via...

A former Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Patrick Akpobolokemi, on Thursday denied looting N2.6bn from the agency while he was the helmsman. He narrated before the Federal High Court in Lagos where he is being prosecuted alongside five others, how he...

Suspected kidnapping kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans, has filed a fresh suit against the police, seeking the release of 25 Mack trucks, which he claimed were seized from him, Punchng reports. . . His lawyer, Olukoya Ogungbeje, contended in the suit that the trucks were seized...

Details have emerged of how an employee of a bank, one Christian Amechi, allegedly helped fraudsters to steal millions of naira from customers using a string of impersonators. The bank worker, until his arrest, was serving at the ATM customers service unit via The Guardian Nigeria...