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State Governors of the All Progressives Congress ( APC ) are billed to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari in their bid to pressure the president to seek re-election in 2019. The News men gathered that the meeting which has been fixed for 2.p.m., may also deliberate on some national and party...

Juventus manager Massimiliano Allegri is ready to leave Italy and replace his countryman, Antonio Conte at Chelsea. The Blues have had disastrous defence of their Premier League crown. READ MORE HERE

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Daddy Freeze blasts Bishop Oyedepo after dead-to-life miracle in a new Instagram post. The formerly dead man named Luiz Fidelis was brought back to life after the founder of the Living Faith Church Worldwide’s prophetic mantle was placed around his neck. Freeze, the OAP and the leader of the...

Suspected gunmen numbering about five on Tuesday morning stormed Gegu Beki police station in Kogi Local Government, firing and killing two police men. The officers killed are identified simply as Jacob and Akile, who were on duties. Also killed in the incident was a detained suspect who was...

A House of Representatives ad-hoc committee which investigated the controversial circumstances in which Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), was promoted and reinstated into the federal civil service after he was dismissed in 2013 over allegations of...

The International police organisation, Interpol, has given possible reasons why a Nigerian senator declared wanted by the Nigerian police has not been publicly placed on its watch list, saying it does not engage in politically-motivated operations. The Nigerian police on March 28 declared Dino...

Sun investigators discovered 'UK used' iPhones for sale in Nigeria's largest city amid Britain's epidemic of moped yobs, often armed with acid, robbing pedestrians of their smartphones MOPED thugs are snatching tens of thousands of phones on UK streets to supply a booming black market run by...

Primate Elijah Ayodele of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, with headquarters in Lagos State, has warned the National Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, not to support President Muhammadu Buhari in next year’s presidential election. Ayodele, speaking at the...

Former Minister of Finance Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is to explain how about $250million of the $500million recovered from the family of the late Head of State, Gen.Sani Abacha, was withdrawn, The Nation learnt yesterday. The cash was released to the Office of National Security Adviser( ONSA) without...

Big Brother Naija Housemate Lolu has finally gotten his love back, Anto was lost after several minutes of lolu preaching to her about his undying love for her. The both experienced overflowed emotions and immediately went into bonding, kissing and romancing passionately. READ MORE HERE

Mr Zuckerberg has seen shares in his company fall steeply since the start of the Cambridge Analytical scandal Facebook’s chief executive has defended his leadership following criticism from his counterpart at Apple. Mark Zuckerberg said it was "extremely glib" to suggest that because the...

Advertisers may have fled Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show, and the host may be taking an impromptu vacation this week, but the network that employs the conservative pundit is standing by her side. Read more via Yahoo News – Latest News & Headlines – https://ift.tt/2JfZFFa Get more World News

Gay dating app Grindr has come under fire for sharing information about users’ HIV status or locations with two companies enlisted to optimise its software. Norwegian nonprofit research group Sintef uncovered Grindr’s data sharing with two companies – Apptimize and Localytics – and concern...

Chairman Heirs Holdings Tony Elumelu will be drinking wine from a golden goblet in the second half of the year going by an estimate of dividends he will earn from various companies. Read more via BusinessDay – https://ift.tt/2GJwBHZ Get more: Nigeria Business News

Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc has reached d an out-of-court settlement between its subsidiary; Newton Energy Limited and Crestar Natural Resources Limited following a legal dispute over the acquisition of Oil Mining Lease (OML) 25. Read more via Nairametrics –...

CAP Plc recently released its financial statements for the year ended December 2017. While revenue increased slightly, the bottom line declined. Revenue increased by 4% from N6.8 billion in 2016 to N7.1 billion in 2017. Profit before tax however dropped by 5% from N2.2 billion in 2016 to N2.1...

China Great Wall Industry, a company that manufactures satellites in China has committed the sum of $550m for equity investment in Nigcomsat (Nigeria Communications Satelite Ltd), the Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu has said. The Minister, who disclosed this during an interview with...

Married partners, who have Retirement Savings Accounts with Pension Fund Administrators, will be allowed to use their savings to apply for joint mortgage loans under the Contributory Pension Scheme. According to a report obtained by our correspondent from the National Pension Commission titled...

The financial services industry (measured by volume) led the activity chart of the Nigerian Stock Exchange last week with 1.024 billion shares valued at N10.946bn traded in 11,019 deals. The industry contributed 66.44 per cent and 65.75 per cent to the total equity turnover volume and Read...