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Nigeria’s foreign affairs minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, has flayed Switzerland for its role in keeping the infamous Abacha loot and making the process of repatriation of the assets strenuous.... Read more via Premium Times Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2CHkCtl Get More Nigeria Political News

Buhari’s refusal assent to the Electoral Bill, Release of timetable for APC primary elections/nomination fees, adoption of indirect primaries by APC in the states, Shekarau’s defection, others dominate political scene The refusal of President Muhammadu Buhari to... Read more via Premium...

Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe has said he now accepts President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the country’s legitimate leader after initially accusing him of leading a “disgraceful” de facto coup that ended his near four-decades rule in 2017.... Read more via Premium Times Newspaper –...

Nigerians living around Mpape neighbourhood and other residential areas in Abuja should not be apprehensive about their safety, Nigerian Geological Survey Agency has said. Alex Nwegbu, the director-general of the... Read more via Premium Times Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2QdQDMi Get More...

About 50 tricycles were damaged in the melee... Read more via Premium Times Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2CwDGuk Get More Nigeria Metro News

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said the country recorded foreign trade valued at N6.57 billion in the second quarter. The bureau disclosed this in its “Foreign Trade in... Read more via Premium Times Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2MQyq9I Get more: Nigeria Business News

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ebonyi says it will pick candidates for the 2019 general elections through consensus, as the approach “best suits the state’s peculiarities.’’ This was the resolution reached after an... Read more via Premium Times Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2NoR8og...

A former governor of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau, has refuted a claim by his spokesman, Sule Ya’u, that he has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressive Congress (APC). In an audio clip repeatedly aired on some... Read more via Premium Times Newspaper –...

Singer Djinee, who was involved in a fatal car accident on August 27 in Lekki, Lagos, has described his survival as a miracle. Movie director, Abinibi, broke the news of the... Read more via Premium Times Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2wJuRYS Get more Nigeria Entertainment News

Baring any last minute change in plan, a former Senate President, David Mark, will on Tuesday officially declare to vie for the seat of the president of Nigeria under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). Mr Mark, a serving senator, will be the... Read more via Premium Times...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said it had set aside N220 billion to be disbursed as loans to cooperative organisations under Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Development Fund (MSMEDF)..... Read more via Premium Times Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2wEYU3f Get More Nigeria Business News

The structures of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Benue were on Monday handed over to Governor Samuel Ortom. A former president of the Senate, David Mark, handed over... Read more via Premium Times Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2oHROHH Get More Nigeria Political News

The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON) has expressed sadness over the news of some of its pilgrims from Zamfara State who were involved in a tragic motor accident that resulted in three fatalities. This was contained in a statement signed... Read more via Premium Times Newspaper –...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it is partnering with the Nigerian Communication Commission (NCC) to send messages to owners of the uncollected Permanent Voter Cards (PVC).... Read more via Premium Times Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2PxZfw9 Get More Nigeria...

The All Progressives Congress(APC) says the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is already conceding defeat ahead of the 2019 elections by taking undue interest in the mode of primaries the APC adopts to elect its candidates for the elections. The party stated this in a statement issued... Read...

The Nigerian government has called for inputs into a new trade policy it is preparing. Nigerian Office for Trade Negotiations (NOTN), which is under the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and... Read more via Premium Times Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2wAyyA5 Get more: Nigeria Business News

Isa Salisu has been rearing cattle since childhood – from a year he could not remember. The trade which he inherited from his father subjects him to a monotonous lifestyle; graze his cattle on nearby field in the latter... Read more via Premium Times Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2MFXlga Get...

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), says Pension Fund Asset (PFA) in the second quarter stands at N8.232 trillion as against N7.943 trillion recorded in the first quarter. The NBS disclosed this in its “Pension Asset and... Read more via Premium Times Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2wBHqom...

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has said the declaration to run for the presidency made by Senate President Bukola Saraki has ‘vindicated’ him.... Read more via Premium Times Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2NATUDV Get More Nigeria Political News

A 21-year-old man from north London was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday for plotting the assassination of British Prime Minister Theresa May. The Old Bailey, London’s criminal court... Read more via Premium Times Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2MIWwTS Get more World News