naija news today 080218

The Senate President, Bukola Saraki has reacted to the extension of the deadline for the collection of Permanent Voters Card, PVCs by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.... Read more via Naijaloaded – http://bit.ly/2UOVu8l Get More Nigeria Political News

A prosecution witness, Abubakar Madaki, on Wednesday, told the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, how wife of Chief Raymond Dokpesi, Oluwatosin, received over N100 million from the N2.1 billion paid to DAAR Investment company by the Office of National Security Adviser (ONSA). Read more...

The Federal Government has announced the reappointment of a consortium of banks including Citi Group, Standard Chartered, StanbicIBTC, Whitten-Case and African Practice, to handle the $2.5 billion Eurobond. Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun disclosed this, on Wednesday, Read more via The...

Reddit has banned "fake porn" – imagery and videos that superimpose a subject’s face over an explicit photo or video without the person’s permission. The move follows the development of artificial intelligence software that made it relatively easy to create clips featuring computer-generated...

Tesla’s Model 3 went on sale in the US last year priced at $35,000 Electric car maker Tesla has notched up its biggest ever quarterly loss and said it "learned many lessons" from its crucial Model 3 production plans. Read more via BBC News – http://ift.tt/2FS3JJl Get more World News

•53.8% invested in FGN Bonds Nigeria Bureau of Statistics (NBS) yesterday said that the nation’s pension fund assets grew by N351 billion to N7.5 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2017 (Q4 2017) The Bureau disclosed this in its Pension Asset and Membership Data report for the fourth Read...

A recent research conducted by Google has showed a rapid increase in online search among Nigerians. The research study which ranked Nigeria among the top three countries of the world that spend quality time online in search of various goods and services, disclosed that Nigerians’ passion to...

Lagos School Life Bencher, Mrs Hairat Aderinsola Balogun (nee Alatishe), is an Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON), Barrister-at-Law of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn and Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Read more via The Guardian Nigeria –...

The Economic and Financial Crimes (EFCC) has maintained that it has the jurisdiction to wade into the dispute between Innoson Group of Companies and Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB), as there are components of the tussle bordering on financial crimes. Read more via Thisdaylive –...

Court docks two for beating septuagenarian to coma in Ondo Six men, including a herbalist, who were alleged to be Badoo cult members, were yesterday charged with smashing the heads of a pastor and other family members with a grinding stone Read more via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper –...

Suspected herdsmen ‪on Tuesday evening alleged killed the Area Commander of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Sheu Magu, in a village near Ogboro-Agbone Road, in Saki area of Oyo State. Other policemen were said to have received varying degrees of injuries Read more via The Guardian...

A rights activist and lawyer, Mr Francis Moneke of Human Rights and Empowerment Project Ltd/Gte, has dragged President Muhammadu Buhari and the Attorney General of the Federation before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, challenging the non recourse to federal character principle in the...

Elon Musk is right: silly and fun things are important. But some of them are an indefensible waste of resources On Wednesday, two things happened. In Syria, 80 people were killed by government airstrikes. Meanwhile in Florida, Elon Musk fired a sports car into space. Read more via the...

The PricewaterhouseCoopers says that increased foreign exchange demand ahead of the 2019 general election might make the Naira to weaken – The professional services firm projects that exports are likely to outpace imports on strong oil export revenues Read more via Nigeria News today –...

Former Liverpool player and retired footballing bad boy El Hadji Diouf is turning his hand to politics… and could run for the Senegal presidency. The former striker played in England for the likes of Liverpool, Sunderland, Blackburn, Bolton and Leeds. Read more via Naijaloaded | –...

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has declared that the amnesty granted by Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State to cultists who killed 23 persons in Omoku, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of the state, has no impact in Rivers State. Governor Wike spoke, … Read more via The Sun...