naija news today 070418

Brazilian ex-President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva will not turn himself in to police, despite being ordered to do so by a judge, reports say. Lula was expected to go to a federal police HQ by late afternoon on Friday, after the Supreme Court ruled he should not … Read more via BBC News –...

Zhang Weiwei is a Chinese professor of International Relations at Fudan University, and a senior research fellow at the Chunqiu Institute. He was a senior fellow at the Centre for Asian Studies, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, and a visiting professor at...

A former captain of the Super Eagles, Sunday Oliseh has defeated Dutch club, Fortuna Sittard in the Royal Dutch Football Association, KNVB, court. The court ruled that the Dutch second tier club were guilty of ‘Black Money Payment‘ as Oliseh claimed. read more via Nigeria News | Laila’s...

Mr Mathias Odey, a 54-year-old farmer and a father to seven children, whose left hand was allegedly cut off by a herdsman during a clash between Fulani herdsmen and farmers in Ugaga community of Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State, has said that he had remained without help from...

By Ebun Sessou Apapa, Lagos which undoubtedly used to be the commercial hub of the country is now living in the past no thanks to the traffic gridlock occasioned by the heavy duty and articulated vehicles, trucks and tankers that have blocked every part of the express road. … Read more via...

Hope of timely execution of the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano gas pipeline projects brightened on Friday as the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) announced the execution of contracts for the engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and financing deals with a consortium of...

The Lagos Leather Fair, the first of its kind in the country for all the stakeholders along the leather value chain, will hold on May 5-6 this year at the Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos. Created to identify the challenges facing the industry with the hope of finding possible innovative and...

Indigenous car buying service, Cars45 has struck a partnership deal with Turing Simcubator and Carsbazr, to launch a refurbishment centre and retail point in Lagos. Simcubator is one of Nigeria’s largest mult-brand automobile workshop while Carsbazr is Nigeria’s largest locally used-car sales...

Thousands of potential candidates have submitted their names to various political parties indicating that they want to contest council, parliamentary and senatorial elections set to be held within the next few months in Zimbabwe. They include Retired General Constantino Chiwenga, Retired...

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...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, is still under investigation. The spokesman for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, said this during an interview with our correspondent on Friday. Read more via Punch...

Kabir Mohammed Adamu, the Managing Director of Bank of Agriculture (BOA), in this interview with ISABEST OMOREGBEJI speaks on the journey of actualizing the mandate of BOA and experiences in driving the CBN Anchors Borrowers Program. Excerpts. Can you let us into the mandate of the Bank …...

THE Technical Committee set up to advise the National Executive Committee NEC of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC on the issue of tenure elongation for party officials submitted its report Friday evening, expressing optimism that its recommendations if implemented, would strengthen the...

JP Morgan Chase has acknowledged it knew that a former Nigerian Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mr. Dan Etete, would benefit when it transferred over $800 million proceeds from the sale of Oil Prospecting Lease (OPL) 245 to a company he controlled. Read more via TODAY.NG –...

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...

Ponzi scheme, Mavrodi Mundial Moneybox (MMM), which collapsed over a year ago in some countries, particularly in Nigeria has finally shut down. Mavrodi launched his controversial scheme in 2011 and crashed in Nigeria in December 2016; with millions of Naira belonging to Nigerians still missing...

Former South African President, Jacob Zuma, on Friday told thousands of supporters outside court in Durban that his opponents were telling lies. He stated that he would be proven innocent in a corruption case against him. Read more via Daily Post Nigeria – https://ift.tt/2H1zLHa Get more...