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This video highlights the top news items as saw it on Nigerian Bulletin today, 17 July, 2017.

Governor of Ekiti State, Peter Ayodele Fayose has strengthened his desire to rule Nigeria, by launching a Presidential campaign on facebook: Ayodele Fayose For President 2019 The governor who is wont for his controversies of the APC-led federal government has maintained that he will take over...

Husband of the murdered Osun state permanent secretary of Bureau of General Services, Mrs Olufunke Oluwakemi Kolawole, has spoken on the strange message his wife sent to him shortly before her assassination. Mrs Kolawole was murdered on the Okene-Abuja Road in Kogi State, on her way to Abuja...

Below are the headlines in some selected Nigerian newspapers today, 17 July, 2017. Punch Nine die in Calabar tank farm inferno NHIS seeks police presence as suspended ES threatens to resume Magu: Presidency gets legal advice, to approach S’Court Sheriff’s faction to boycott PDP meetings...

This video highlights the top news items as saw it on Nigerian Bulletin today, 16 July 2017. --

Below are the headlines in some selected Nigerian newspapers today, 16 July, 2017. Punch Osinbajo extends 2017 N-Power application Yoruba, Igbo, N’Delta, Middle Belt leaders unite against Fulani herdsmen There won’t be peace in Niger Delta without restructuring — Clark Anti-Igbo threat...

This video highlights the top news items as we saw it on Nigerian Bulletin today, 15 July, 2017. ---

Suspected to be members of Nigeria's secessionist group, Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), a group of youths on Friday allegedly disrupted a church function attended by a governorship aspirant in Anambra State on the platform of the Progressives Peoples Alliance, Mr. Godwin Ezeemo. Reports...

Below are the headlines in some selected Nigerian newspapers today, 15 July, 2017. Punch 2.3million youths apply for 300,000 N-Power jobs PDP now in the hands of looters –Sheriff ICPC drags NCRI boss to court over illegal recruitment Air Force receives five aircraft from Pakistan We didn’t...

This video highlights the top news items as we saw it on Nigerian Bulletin today, 14 July, 2017. ---

The Joint Committees of Nigeria's House of Representatives and the Senate as well as State Houses of Assembly are converged in Lagos state to conclude the work on the amendment of the 1999 constitution. Lagos state governor, Akinwumi Ambode who declared the forum open said there is need to fix...

In no time after the Nigeria's Supreme Court sacked the factional chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ali Modu Sheriff and reinstated Ahmed Makarfi, the party has swung into action to get back on track. The leadership of the party has announced that the National Convention of the PDP has...

Mrs. Olufunke Oluwakemi Kolawole, Osun state's Permanent Secretary, Bureau of General Services, has been reportedly murdered around Okene, in Kogi State, on her way to Abuja on Thursday. Kolawole, according to DailyPost had left Osogbo in the early hours of Thursday for Abuja, to felicitate...

Running helter-skelter, and in fear, residents of Ijebutedo and Itabale areas of Somolu, Lagos state panicked as a rally embarked upon by some members of the All Progressives Congress ended abruptly with gunshots . During the violence, vehicles were being damaged, residents hastily shut their...

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Thursday rolled out the cost of N20, 000 against Olukoya Ogungbeje, counsel to suspected billionaire kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike aka Evans. Justice Abdulazeez Anka, in his ruling, warned Ogungbeje to desist from “practices unbecoming of a...

Below are the headlines in some selected Nigerian newspapers today, 14 July 2017. Punch Sambo’s house raid: Whistle-blower arraigned, remanded in prison Northern youths write UN, want IPOB declared terrorist group Kano will lose status without Igbo, others – Ganduje Islamists plotting to...

This video highlights the top news items as we saw it on Nigerian Bulletin today, 13 July, 2017. --

Executive governor of Kogi state, Yahaya Bello has said that lecturers that sued him before the court of law will be exempted from the payment of salaries and arrears in the state, Daily Nigerian report says Bello, while appealing to members of the state university Academic Staff Union to call...

24 hours after Nigeria's Vice (Acting) President Yemi Osinbajo met with his principal, Buhari in Britain, the turn of events according to reports will mean that Osinbajo is set to assert his full powers in running the affairs of government in the country in his principal's absence. Osinbajo...

Ruling party, All Progressives Congress has reflected on the recent supreme court judgement that endorsed Makarfi as the party chair, and stated that it doesn't matter who rules the party, it has already lost its credibility in Nigerian polity. The party's National Vice-Chairman (North-East)...