naija news today 020919

Serena Williams and her husband worth nearly $200 million, opted at the weekend for the simplest form of mass transit in New York, the three wheeler bike, known in Nigeria as Keke... read more via P.M. News – https://ift.tt/2jSecPJ Get More Nigeria Sports News

Top-ranked defending champion Novak Djokovic retired with a shoulder injury after dropping the first two sets of Sunday’s US Open last-16 match against Swiss star and former champion Stan Wawrinka.... read more via P.M. News – https://ift.tt/2kjESJ9 Get More Nigeria Sports News

The Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) has raised an alarm over the recent order issued by the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, to all State Police Commands and Zonal Headquarters to clamp down on the Shiite sect and arrest its leaders and members across … Read more via...

The army has confirmed the loss of three soldiers and gun trucks in an ambush, Friday, in the Monguno-Mairari-Gajiram axis of Borno State. Troops of Sector 3, Operation Lafiya Dole, on Super Camp Wheels were patrolling... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News –...

Some bandits on Saturday, August 31, launched an attack on Yandaka village in Batsari local government area of Katsina state, injuring the village head in the process. The bandits during the attack also abducted the wife and three children of the village head from his residence. The...

The former senate president shared the photo and wrote, ‘just getting to the Emirates stadium to watch the NLD (Arsenal vs Tottenham) with my sons, Seni and Niyi. Feels so refreshing to be able to watch the match of great rivals especially with family’. After the match, he wrote, … Read...

It was like a scene in a home movie, during a wedding ceremony on Saturday, in Benin City, Edo State, when a woman walked to the church altar, seized the microphone from the pastor, accused the groom of dumping her for his new bride, and … Read more via Welcome To Ladun Liadi’s Blog –...

The Irish gas firm involved in the $9.6 billion asset controversy with Nigeria at the weekend blamed President Muhammadu Buhari’s government for the nation’s precarious situation in the matter.... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News – https://ift.tt/2lFRxq9 Get...

Power generation by the nation’s electricity companies hit an average of 3,862MW between January and August, from a monthly average of 3,531MW in the previous months, the latest data from the office of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo have shown. … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News –...

A former political ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, Buba Galadima in this encounter, answers … Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2ltBBYg Get More Nigeria Political News

Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, yesterday confirmed an international status for the Asaba, Delta State Airport, saying the state government is living up to standards on the required facilities. Sirika, who spoke with journalists after inspecting facilities at … Read more via The Guardian...

Some 6,721 concerned Nigerians, including the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), BudgIT and Enough is Enough (EiE), at the weekend initiated action at the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos against the ninth Senate over plan to spend … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria...

Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umaru Ganduje has said that the re-arrested Taraba State kidnapping leader, Hamisu Bala, popularly called Wadume, made the mistake of his life by taking criminal refuge in Kano State. The … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News –...

Paris Saint-Germain goalkeeper Alphonso Areola is preparing to complete a deadline day switch to Real Madrid - with Keylor Navas moving in the opposite direction. The French goalkeeper has travelled to Madrid where he is believed to have passed... read more via “real madrid” – Google News –...