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Nigeria Cameroon border Following a ban on all imports and exports by President Muhammadu Buhari, Ghana and Nigeria have agreed on the creation of a temporary corridor on Nigeria’s western border with..... Read more via Sahara Reporters – https://ift.tt/2BqkQBQ Get more: Nigeria Business News

One out of seven persons in Nigeria between the ages of 15 and 64 years use at least one psychoactive substance as against global average of one in 20. This was revealed by the Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Elimination of Drug… Read more via Sahara Reporters –...

The Central Bank of Nigeria on Wednesday said a total of 119,663 pieces of counterfeit notes with a nominal value of N98.82m was recorded in 2018, according to the News Agency of Nigeria. The bank said this in the Currency Operations 2018 Annual Report, posted on its website. … Read more...

Weeks after President Muhammadu Buhari visited South Africa in the wake of xenophobic attacks on African migrants including Nigerians, another Nigerian, Ikenna Otugo, was on Tuesday killed in the former apartheid nation. Acting Chairman of Nigerian Union, South Africa, in the Kwazulu Natal...

Nigeria’s vice president Yemi Osinbajo The Guardian Nigeria Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has challenged states in Nigeria toexplore ways of increasing their internal revenue generation andboosting thei..... Read more via Sahara Reporters – https://ift.tt/2Ba2rsJ Get More Nigeria Political...

Daniel Fakoya, 18, of Priory Court, E17 was sentenced to 15 years in jail and a further three years on the licence, following a hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court on Friday, 11 October..... Read more via Sahara Reporters – https://ift.tt/35vucd8 Get more World News

A son who confessed to killing both of his parents in a row about his dog has been sentenced to life imprisonment. Sergey Koudryavtsev, 48, phoned the police three days after fatally stabbing his parents with.... Read more via Sahara Reporters – https://ift.tt/2OKgf5h Get more World News

A report by The Economist said $582bn or N177.5trn has been laundered from Nigeria since 1960. The report was citing an estimate by United Kingdom-based think-tank, Chatham House..... Read more via Sahara Reporters – https://ift.tt/2Vzh9TJ Get more: Nigeria Business News

The World Bank on Wednesday revised Nigeria’s economic growth for 2019 from 2.1 to 2.0 per cent. A report by Reuters said that the revision was made in the institution’s ‘Africa’s Pulse report for October. The New York-based global lender had in April predicted that the largest economy in …...

In the United States, the Nigerian embassies in Atlanta and Washington DC have mysteriously run out of e-passport booklets. Thus, Nigerians coming home for 2019 Christmas are given appointment dates in March 2020 for e-passports in New York. This is technically telling thousands of Nigerians...

President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa on Thursday night said that without the support of Nigeria, the country’s freedom would have come at a far greater cost..... Read more via Sahara Reporters – https://ift.tt/2LJkgoN Get more World News

Elder statesman, Edwin Clark, has said that Nigeria as an entity won’t make any meaningful progress without being restructured. Clark, who was a guest on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, believes that restructuring the country will help address its many … Read more...

President Muhammadu Buhari has warned promoters of hate speech in the country to desist from such actions or get ready to face the consequences. Buhari gave the warning on Tuesday in his Independence Day speech … Read more via Sahara Reporters – https://ift.tt/2ntIfiB Get More Nigeria...

The management of the University of Benin on Monday cancelled a symposium for students titled “Is Nigeria ripe for a revolution?” The event was organised by students of the Department of International Studies. ... Read more via Sahara Reporters – https://ift.tt/2o3pZMy Get More Nigeria...

A former spokesperson for late President Umaru Yar’Adua, Olusegun Adeniyi, has said that pro-democracy campaigner and Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, predicted long ago that the Department of State Services would not obey the court order for his release. In a tweet, Adeniyi …...

The Department of State Services has continued to hold on to pro-democracy campaigner, Omoyele Sowore, despite fulfilling his bail condition. Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, in Abuja, had on Tuesday ordered the DSS to release the activist on bail. Sowore had since fulfilled...

Details have emerged as to how pro-democracy campaigner and Convener of RevolutionNow movement, Omoyele Sowore, found out that he had been granted bail on Tuesday by the Federal High Court in Abuja. Sowore was granted bail by Justice Taiwo Taiwo on the … Read more via Sahara Reporters –...

Omoyele Sowore, convener pf #RevolutionNow Movement, says he was rough handled by operatives of the Department of State Services at the time of his arrest in August. The DSS had picked up Sowore in Lagos ahead of the planned nationwide #RevolutionNow protest. In the transcript of DSS...

Omoyele Sowore is scheduled to be arriagned to this morning at the Federal H/Court in Abuja by the Department of State Security (DSS). Sowore's lawyer, Femi Falana and his team were spotted in court waiting for the arrival of the judge. While Deji Adeyanju and other activists are within the...

Facebook’s 22.4millon Nigerian users will see some of the applications they are used to suspended or removed, as the firm continues to improve its privacy status. In a blog post seen by the GuardianUK, the United States-based social platform, said it had suspended tens of thousands of apps...