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Alhaji Ibrahim Idris, Inspector General of Police Jethro Ibileke/Benin Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Idris Ibrahim, has ordered the establishment of a Marine Base in the Edo State Police Command. The State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Johnson Babatunde Kokumo, disclosed this...

Anthony Joshua’s highly anticipated fight with Joseph Parker could be confirmed this week, according to the WBA and IBF heavyweight champion’s promoter Eddie Hearn. Hearn confirmed on Tuesday that further talks will take place with Parker’s representatives in the coming days in the hope of...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said it didn’t anoint any preferred bidder to acquire 9mobile. Some newspaper publications had alleged that a preferred bidder has been anointed by NCC to acquire 9Mobile and thereby speculated on the outcome of the ownership transfer process. But...

Fabio Capello PHOTO:AFP Former England manager Fabio Capello branded feuding managers Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte as "totally out of their minds" for letting their public spat get out of control. Chelsea manager Conte and Manchester United’s Mourinho have been engaged in a … via The...

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has set state-by-state target for the 21 commercial banks and 942 Micro finance banks in the country to ensure that every Nigerian adult has access to financial services. Elizabeth Agu, the CBN Branch Controller, Federal Capital Territory, made this known on …...

Great Britain bobsleigher Bruce Tasker will miss the Winter Olympics after suffering a minor stroke. The 30-year-old fell ill on 4 January and is expected to make a full recovery. More to follow via BBC – http://ift.tt/2D4Swbu --------------- Get More Nigeria Sports News

A couple of days ago, Sony went official with its brand-new phones — the upper-midrange Xperia XA2 and Xperia XA2 Ultra , and the budget Xperia L2 . They are pretty-cool looking handsets, aimed at the traditionalists that like their phone to have that stark, rectangular look that Sony’s …...

Over the past year, Google has demonstrated its desire to step up its hardware game. The company bought HTC’s Pixel team for $1.1 billion, designed its own imaging chip for the Pixel 2 and also hired a key Apple chip designer. Bloomberg reports that in its bid to gain an edge … via...

Yerry good The Colombian will wear the No24 shirt and is the second January signing by the Catalan club after the £145m deal for Philippe Coutinho 11th January 2018, 10:06 am Updated: 11th January 2018, 10:06 am BARCELONA have completed their second signing of January after snapping up Yerry...

Kremlin-linked hackers published stolen emails from the International Olympic Committee and World Anti-Doping Agency Wednesday in retaliation for Russia’s ban from next month’s Winter Olympics. The data dump by the Fancy Bears group also contained emails from the United States Olympic Committee...

Coca-Cola Co.’s South African bottling unit isn’t awarding business to McKinsey & Co. pending the outcome of probes into the U.S. consultancy’s work involving the politically connected Gupta family. Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa hasn’t given a contract to McKinsey sine June 2017 and has no...

Alhaji Aliko Dangote of Nigeria has retained his title of Africa’s richest man based on a recent publication by Forbes magazine. This is the seventh time in a roll Dangote will be declared the richest Blackman. According to Forbes, Aliko remains at the top … via pulse.ng – Nigeria’s...

Samsung Two French campaign groups filed a legal case against Samsung in France on Thursday, alleging the Korean electronics giant was responsible for the use of child labour and other abuses in its Chinese plants. Using a new French law that makes a … via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper –...

Zidane PHOTO:AFP Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane on Wednesday confirmed that he has signed a contract extension which will keep him at the European champions until 2020. "It’s signed," said the French star after his side drew 2-2 with Numancia to progress to … via The Guardian Nigeria...

Football has always depended on the humanness of the centre referee and his assistants. And just like all of us, they make mistakes though the difference is that more eyes are trained on their mistakes with numerous playbacks from different angles possible options. As the money in … Via...

UEFA on Thursday announced its 2017 Team of the Year. A new voting record was set. A grand total of 8,779,639 million votes were cast by supporters around the world, an increase of over 1.6 million on the previous year’s tally of 7.15 million. Players from the Spanish league … via Daily Post...

Kenya Airways today marks a great milestone with the launch of a non-stop flight from Nairobi to New York. The national carrier starts selling today tickets for the inaugural flight which is scheduled for October 28th this year. Kenya Airways becomes the first airline to offer a non-stop flight...

Uber Eats is set to launch in Kenya and the firm is hiring a Marketplace Operations Manager to scale and develop its food delivery platform in the market. According to a job posting by Uber on Ringier’s BrighterMonday the firm is looking at someone strong enough to coordinate relations between...

Facebook launched a Messenger app just for kids this past December, but it was only available on iOS. Now the app is available on Amazon’s app store for Fire tablets as well. While it might not help counter the current worries over connected gadget addiction, the app has some built-in features …...

Huawei’s just announced intentions to bring the Mate 10 Pro to the U.S. Fast on its heels is the Mate 10 Porsche Design, set to be released in mid-February. The Porsche Design Huawei Mate 10 revs up specs a bit, while adding some class, and a whole lot of … via PhoneArena – News –...