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Hindi Livinus, Yola Comrade Rodney Nathan, Chairman of Nigerian Union of Teachers, Adamawa State, says the state government has not yet cancelled its plans to employ additional 1,500 teachers into the state universal basic education board. This is just as he also disclosed that over 26,000...

The National Bureau of Statistics says 3.65million passengers travelled through Nigerian airports in the second quarter of 2018 as against 3.84 million recorded in the first quarter. The NBS disclosed this in its “Air Transport Data” (Q1 and Q2 2018) report posted on its website. The bureau...

Sprint legend Usain Bolt’s football training has been put on hold after he flew out of Australia for a “previously planned commitment”, his A-League club has said. The Jamaican superstar is pursuing his long-held dream of... read more via Punch Newspapers – https://ift.tt/2NsxfwD Get More...

Members of the National Assembly have called … Read more via Punch Newspapers – https://ift.tt/2M9Worb Get More Nigeria Political News

Colombian armed forces killed “the most dangerous” dissident guerrilla from now-disbanded Marxist rebels FARC on Saturday in the drug violence-infested jungle area on the border with Ecuador, the government said. Victor David Segura had been identified by President Ivan Duque as “the...

On Friday, President Donald Trump took to his Twitter handle, @realDonaldTrump, to ask what Nike was thinking when it put out its new advertising material headlined by athlete, Colin Kaepernick. Kaepernick, who is a free agent National Football League player in the US, first started kneeling on...

Kwara Government on Friday approved the appointment of Mr Abdulraheem Adeoti as the new Olomu of Omu-Aran in Irepodun Local Government Area of the state. Dr Habeebat Katibi, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Local Government, Chieftaincy Affairs and Community Development announced the...

Two Armenian teenagers due to be deported from the Netherlands have gone missing on Saturday, the Dutch justice ministry said, in the latest twist of a high-profile drama as the pair battle to stay in the country. Howick, 13 and his sister Lili, 12, who have gone into … Read more via Punch...

Angola’s former president Jose Eduardo dos Santos on Saturday handed over the reins of the ruling MPLA party to President Joao Lourenco after dominating politics for nearly four decades..... Read more via Punch Newspapers – https://ift.tt/2oPYjrH Get more World News

Mo Farah will have history in his sights on Sunday as the British star chases a record fifth Great North Run title. Victory in Newcastle this weekend will make Farah the first man to win the Great North Run five times. That would be the perfect preparation for … read more via Punch...

International Boxing Federation European Welterweight champion, Larry Ekundayo, is set to visit Nigeria on a six-day tour from September 10-16, 2018, with his commercial agent, Ben Gray, and members of his team. During the visit, the boxer would pay a courtesy call on President Muhammadu …...

Hindi Livinus, Yola Suspected Fulani herdsmen have beheaded the Chairman of the Peoples Democratic … Read more via Punch Newspapers – https://ift.tt/2wPGy00 Get More Nigeria Political News

Nigerian parents, Titilayo and Kehinde Omosebi, have been arrested by the Reedsburg Police in Wisconsin, US, after their son, Ayanfe, starved to death during a religious fast. According to the Facebook page of Reedsburg Police, the father of the deceased, Kehinde walked into the police station...

A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a sports club in Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least four people and wounding 18, officials said, in the latest attack in the Afghan capital. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish …...

Abdullahi Mansur, Assistant Coach of the national U-20 team, Falconets, on Wednesday blamed the poor performance of national football teams in international competitions on inadequate exposure to international friendlies. Mansur told the News Agency of Nigeria that inadequate preparations...

Sloane Stephens’s US Open title defense ended with a 6-2, 6-3 quarter-final defeat to Latvia’s Anastasija Sevastova on Tuesday. Sevastova, through to the semi-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time, will face either 23-time major champion Serena Williams or eighth-seeded Czech Karolina...

Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho, has accepted a suspended one-year prison sentence after defrauding the Spanish tax authorities of around €3.3million ($3.8m). Talks between Mourinho’s lawyers and Spanish tax authorities have resulted in an agreement, which will see Mourinho accept in...

The Department of State Services has defended the order handed over to its acting Director General, Mr. Mathew Seiyefa by the Presidency to recall the officers he transferred out of the headquarters to other commands. A statement issued by its Spokesman, Mr. Nnochirionye Afunanya, in Abuja …...

As Beyonce celebrates her 37th birthday on Tuesday (today), her mother, Tina Lawson, decided to share a photo of the singer as a four-month-old baby.... via Punch Newspapers – https://ift.tt/2CgzxKP Get more Nigeria Entertainment News

A former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, has picked the N1m Expression of Interest form of the Social Democratic Party in order to contest for the Presidency on the platform of the SDP. Duke revealed this when he visited the national secretariat of … Read more via Punch...