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Despite parading a host of foreign-based stars, the Nigeria U-23 team were beaten 2-0 on Wednesday by their Libyan counterparts at the Stade de Ben Guerdane in Tunisia in the first leg of the African qualifiers.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2FprsmO Get More...

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved five more contracts for the clean up of Ogoni land in Rivers State. This was announced by the environment minister, Suleiman Hassan, while briefing journalists at the end of a seven-hour meeting of the council on Wednesday.... Read more via...

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar in the just-completed presidential election has given a breakdown of the number of votes he believed he scored in each of the... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2Hv0VXv Get More Nigeria...

Former president Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday faulted a claim by the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) that it pays him an annual allowance for his role as a facilitator of the university..... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2Cqb6bC Get More Nigeria Metro News

As the world marks the International Day of Happiness, Nigeria is ranked 85 out of 156 countries and second in sub-Saharan Africa. This is according to the annual Global Happiness Policy Report produced by the Global Happiness Council, which was released on Wednesday.... Read more via Premium...

The Nigerian Senate has approved N30, 000 as minimum wage for workers in Nigeria. The national minimum wage bill will become effective after the president, Muhammadu Buhari, assents to it. The chairman of the ad-hoc committee set up to review the bill, Francis Alimikhena, presented a report …...

President Muhammadu Buhari will not intervene to help his party win supplementary elections in six states where they are scheduled, the presidency has said.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2uaGZAt Get More Nigeria Political News

The younger sister of Bukola Saraki, Nigeria’s Senate President, Oyinkansola Saraki, has said her brother failed to live up to expectations while he served as Kwara State governor.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2W3aRuw Get More Nigeria Political News

For over a year, the Chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel on Recovery of Public Property (SPIP), Okoi Obono-Obla, has continued to run the panel..... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2TVmSou Get More Nigeria Political News

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday expressed confidence that it would win all the governorship supplementary elections scheduled for March... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2TcPB3F Get More Nigeria Political News

For Ndidi Godwin, switching her children’s education from a private to a public school has turned out to be a huge mistake. The Methodist Primary School, Ewu-Tuntun, which her two daughters attend has gradually... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2Cpbp6C Get More Nigeria...

Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL), operator of the CNL and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) joint venture, on Wednesday, signed a Gas Sale and.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2JdR8GV Get more: Nigeria Business News

The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Seyi Makinde, was declared the winner of the Oyo State governorship election that held on March... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2HiV7jz Get More Nigeria Political News

The Catholic Arch-Bishop of Abuja, John Onaiyekan, has described the low turnout of voters in Saturday’s elections as a demonstration of lack of confidence by Nigerians in the electoral system..... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2Hea5HJ Get More Nigeria Political News

President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Daura declared that he would want to be remembered as a leader who kept his word that elections in Nigeria must be free, fair and credible.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2JfYnxU Get More Nigeria Political News

A member representing Pengana State Constituency in the Plateau State House of Assembly, Ezekial Afon, who was reelected Saturday on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, has died.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2UvB18W Get More Nigeria Political News

The candidate of the People Democratic Party in Saturday’s election, Ahmadu Fintiri, is leading in the governorship election in Adamawa State with over 20,000 votes advantage in 18 local government areas declared yet.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2TCl83o Get More...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned underage voters not to come near polling units in Plateau State ahead of Saturday’s governorship and state assembly elections.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2STQEVU Get More Nigeria Metro News

The Defence Headquarters reiterated on Friday that the role of the Armed Forces in the ongoing elections is to support the police in providing security for voters to exercise their franchise..... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2XPBdlc Get More Nigeria Metro News

The Naira on Tuesday gained 50 kobo to exchange at N358 to the dollar at the parallel market in Lagos, stronger than N358.5 traded on Monday..... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2NKrTdK Get more: Nigeria Business News