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Senator Jibril Bello Gada has declared to contest for the governorship position of Sokoto State in 2019 under the umbrella of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Read more via Leadership Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2s0ymYy -- Get More Nigeria Political News

The people of Abia South Senatorial District, Tuesday, commenced the process of recalling Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, representing the area at the National Assembly. Read more via Leadership Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2HvqJ1O -- Get More Nigeria Political News

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday withdrew a suit filed against a former First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, seeking to freeze the sum of $5,316.66, allegedly linked to her and some companies Read more via Leadership Nigeria Newspapers – https://ift.tt/2Hh1HDG...

Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja has given reasons why the immediate-past Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Mohammed Adoke (SAN), could not be held liable for his roles in the Oil Processing Licence 245 transactions, popularly known as Malabu...

President Muhammadu Buhari said yesterday that the killer herdsmen who have been responsible for the wanton killings in Nigeria were trained and armed by the late Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi. Read more via Leadership Nigeria Newspapers – https://ift.tt/2GQiQYx -- Get More Nigeria...

The Nigerian stocks market yesterday rebounded with a gain of 0.17 per cent on Consumer Goods and Industrial Goods stocks. In summary, the All Share Index (ASI) gained 69.86 absolute points, representing a growth of 0.17 per cent to close at 40,499.04 points. Similarly, the market capitalisation...

A bodyguard for Floyd Mayweather was wounded when a gunman in a vehicle opened fire on the boxer’s motorcade. The vehicle was travelling through an Atlanta intersection early on Monday, police said. Mayweather was not in the vehicle that was fired upon and was not injured in the incident, a...

Pope Francis said on Monday that Catholics should not give “excessive importance” to certain Church rules while disregarding others, urging opponents of abortion to show equal passion for the lives of the poor and oppressed. Read more via Leadership Nigeria Newspapers –...

Germany and France will launch a program this month to develop a new marine patrol and surveillance aircraft, the German navy said yesyerday, in what defence sources said was a response to a sharp increase in Russian submarine patrols. Read more via Leadership Nigeria Newspapers –...

Chelsea head coach Antonio Conte dismissed his former Juventus teammate Gianluca Vialli’s claim that he “cannot wait to leave” the Premier League club, and reaffirmed his commitment to seeing out his contract. read more via Leadership Nigeria Newspapers – https://ift.tt/2qbUrma...

Two suspects have been held by the police in UK, after another Nigerian youth was added to the list of over 50 victims of cold-blooded murder in the country, within 90 days, this year. The police named 18-year-old Israel Ogunsula, as the latest victim of London’s knife crime epidemic after he...

In a move that may likely create confusion for the ruling All Progressives Congress, two governors on the party’s platform have concluded plans to convene an illegal National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting. LEADERSHIP gathered that the governors, one from the North and the other from one of...

The federal government has expressed confidence that operations at the Lekki Deep seaport in Lagos State when completed would rake in over $200 billion. Read more via Leadership Nigeria Newspapers – https://ift.tt/2GXZjES Get more: Nigeria Business News

Nigeria and other countries across the world would spend about $811 billion on 615 upcoming oil and gas fields in the next eight years, a research conducted by data and analytics firm, Global data has revealed. Read more via Leadership Nigeria Newspapers – https://ift.tt/2uLOWPR Get more...

Israel has cancelled plans to deport migrants en masse to Africa after reaching a deal with the United Nations refugee agency. More than 16,000 asylum seekers will instead be resettled in Western countries, including Canada, Italy and Germany, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Read more...

Worried by the recent comments of former Deputy Senate president, Sen Ibrahim Mantu, indications have emerged that pressure is being mounted on the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to slam the party chieftain for declaring that he aided the former ruling party to rig elections in...

The Vatican has denied that Pope Francis told a well-known Italian journalist that “there is no hell”. The quote came in an article in Italy’s La Repubblica daily. But the Vatican said “no quotations” in the article “should be considered as a faithful transcription” of the Pope’s Read more...

The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has issued a deadline of August 1, 2018 to the 11 electricity distribution companies (Discos) to engage the services of Meter Asset Providers (MAP), stressing that the move is aimed at achieving the 3-year metering target prescribed by the...

The bears continued to dominate the equities market, against expectations of a positive close, following broadly positive corporate releases, as the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) All-Share Index (ASI) plunged 0.51 per cent on sustained profit taking in high capitalised stocks. Read more...

Imo State governor, Rochas Okorocha in his quest to foist his son-in-law and chief of staff, Hon. Uche Nwosu, as his successor, has concluded arrangement to arm twist Imo lawmakers into endorsing his son-in-law, believing that their endorsement could give his daughter’s husband some political...