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A former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has expressed sadness over the demise of former President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe. The former Nigerian leader expressed his sadness in a letter he personally.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2MZTOsF Get More Nigeria...

A Nigerian journalist, Agba Jalingo, who has been in police detention for over a week, over a report about an alleged diversion of N500 million by the Cross River governor, has been charged with treason... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2ZEZxdA Get More Nigeria...

Most political parties in Nigeria, including the front-running APC and PDP, as well as reforms-touting parties of Omoyele Sowore and Kingsley Moghalu, among others, breached the country’s law on financial disclosure to the.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2PjnGlP Get...

Adebayo Shittu, the immediate-past Minister of Communication, said that he was shocked when his name was not included in President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial list.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2KT8bgm Get More Nigeria Political News

The General Manager, Kwara State Television Authority, Abdulfatai Adebowale, has been arrested by the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegations of Land fraud..... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2TYsZpw Get More Nigeria...

A total of 512 out of the 6,845 Nigerian students currently studying in China, are on Chinese government scholarship as at 2019, an official said. The Press Officer in the Embassy of China in Nigeria, Sun Saixiong, said this in a statement in Abuja.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria –...

Nigeria has improved in major indices of economic growth, the finance minister, Zainab Ahmed, told the National Economic Council (NEC) on Thursday..... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2KOkFWj Get More Nigeria Political News

Human Rights lawyer Femi Falana says the call for revolution is not new in Nigeria as many political leaders had called for revolution at one point or the other. He said Nigerians called for revolution during.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2TLGR6D Get More Nigeria...

The chief executive of Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, Tunde Fowler, has replied the query issued him by the presidency. While Mr Fowler agreed that actual tax collection since the.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2ZcY5Pk Get More Nigeria Metro News

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the suspension of the chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel on the Recovery of Public Property, Okoi Obono-Obla, from office..... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2H6ye1f Get More Nigeria Political News

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Central Bank of Nigeria not to provide foreign exchange for the importation of food, saying his administration has achieved food security.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2yXGKew Get More Nigeria Political News

General Officer Commanding, 7 Division, Nigerian Army, Maiduguri, Bulama Biu, on Monday rocked the dance floor with wounded troops in the hospital to celebrate Eid-el-kabir with them.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2Z1JmXs Get More Nigeria Metro News

Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State says he will not use public fund and resources to enjoy and gratify himself at the expense of the masses that brought him to power.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2ToOkIs Get More Nigeria Political News

The Kano State Government on Sunday prevented district heads outside the Kano Emirate from participating in the Sallah Durbar of Kano emir, Mohammed Sunusi..... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2Ku48a0 Get More Nigeria Political News

The governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, on Friday approved the removal of the Emir of Maru, Abubakar Cika, and the district head of Kanoma, Lawal Ahmad, for allegedly giving support to bandits responsible for hundreds of deaths.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria –...

President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday assured members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of All Progressives Congress (APC) that he would be more conscious of the interests of the.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2M69Ws9 Get More Nigeria Political News

U.S. President Donald Trump will postpone a trip to Florida planned for Tuesday due to the mass shootings in Texas and Ohio over the weekend, a White House official said on Monday.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2yGyKyo Get more World News

A Nigerian anti-graft agency, EFCC, on Sunday, raided the home of a former governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari. According to a report published on Ripplesnigeria, on Monday, over 20 of EFCC operatives.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2yR7r4F Get More Nigeria...

One month after Biodun Fatoyinbo, founder and senior pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA) stepped down after being accused of rape, he returned to the pulpit on Sunday... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/337Y26s Get More Nigeria Metro News

Disney’s ‘The Lion King’ has crossed the $1 billion mark after less than 3 weeks in theaters. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the live-action remake of the 1994 movie features.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/32YwfFr Get more Nigeria Entertainment News