nigerian metro news 140119

US online retailer Amazon faced new French government pressure Monday after a TV report over the weekend showed it destroying thousands of new diapers, toys and other unsold or returned items in perfect condition. Brune Poirson, a secretary of state for France’s ecological transition, said after...

Babatunde Fashola, minister of power, works and housing, says the reports that the Mambilla power project has been stalled, due to an attempt to divert funds, is not true. The $5.8 billion project, a 3,050-megawatt hydropower facility, was conceived in 1982. In a statement on Sunday, Hakeem...

The prosecution team charging Chief Justice Walter Onnoghen for false assets declaration allegations has demanded that the top jurist must show up in court to have his charges read to him. Trial opened at the Code of Conduct Tribunal for the trial of Mr Onnoghen shortly after … Read more via...

ABUJA – The Federal Government has employed the services of a former Commissioner of Justice in Kano State, Alhaji Aliyu Umar, to head the team to prosecute the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, over his alleged refusal to declare his assets Read More

Nigeria's forthcoming general elections has been named as one of the world's “Top Risks 2019”. According to a New York-based organisation, Nigeria faces its most fiercely contested election since the transition to democracy in 1999. The US-China trade war, European populism, Mexico, Ukraine and...

Egypt’s Al-Azhar university has confirmed the expulsion of a female student after she appeared in a video hugging a male colleague, accusing her of undermining the school’s reputation. The video, which went viral earlier this month, showed a young man carrying a bouquet of flowers kneeling...

Campaign vehicles belonging to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have been set ablaze in Enugu. Mc Ebisco reports that the incident happened around Tickles Park, at the Ogui New Layout Area of the State. A chieftain of the party, Mr. Dan Nwomeh, who confirmed the development, said the unknown …...