naija news today 050619

More than 2,000 cases of Ebola have been recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the last 10 months, officials have said. Two thirds of the cases have been fatal, the health ministry added.... Read more via Daily Nation | Home – http://bit.ly/2Wcuf7T Get more World News

Gender activists at the Women Deliver Conference in Canada were not too pleased with President Akufo-Addo’s submission on women empowerment in Ghana. The President has said, despite the majority being women in Ghana, not much political action had been witnessed in their push for greater...

President Donald Trump’s administration approved the transfer of nuclear technical expertise to Saudi Arabia twice after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Democratic senator said Tuesday. Those two times were part of seven occasions starting in December 2017 in which the...

Chinese President Xi Jinping headed for Russia Wednesday to mark a new era of friendship and reinforce economic ties that had benefitted from Moscow’s isolation from the West. Due to arrive in the early afternoon, Xi will be received with full honours..... Read more via Capital News –...

Some stakeholders in the Nigerian insurance sector have expressed their willingness to consider mergers and acquisitions in light of the new capital base for the sector which was recently introduced by the National Insurance Commission (NAICOM).... Read more via Nairametrics –...

An Irish-owned company is due to ask the British courts to enforce a $9 billion (€8 billion) award against Nigeria’s government in a dispute over a gas processing plant that was never built. Process and Industrial Development (P&ID), a UK-registered firm linked to Dublin-based Industrial...

Just as Nigeria gets to grips with militants who brought the nation’s oil industry to its knees a few years ago, another group of longstanding foes are slowly making a comeback: thieves.... Read more via “nigeria” – Google News – https://bloom.bg/31bRWkr Get more: Nigeria Business News

The United States challenged in the first half, but it appeared as if the U-20 World Cup favorites France were too much to handle. Suddenly, in the blink of an eye, the U.S. had completed a stunning comeback to win 3-2 and … read more via SOCCER news, photos, and video – Yahoo! Sports –...