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AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has revealed plans to distribute over 250,000 free condoms to Nigerians. AHF advocacy and marketing manager, Steve Aborisade, who disclosed this in... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News – https://ift.tt/2w0QOoG Get More Nigeria Metro News

Julius Berger Plc, which is building the second Niger River Bridge has given a definite time of completing the project which previous administrations had failed to deliver.... Read more via P.M. News – https://ift.tt/2OLjp7U Get more: Nigeria Business News

Formula 1 world champion, Lewis Hamilton is set to enter the sporting world’s top-ten highest earners ahead of his potential £180million deal with Mercedes. With his contract ending in December 2020, the British racing driver will meet Mercedes’ bosses to thrash out.... Read more via Linda...

27-year-old Osiphesona Ngcanga, whose life as an assistant lecturer of law at Nelson Mandela University (NMU) and as a maritime law master’s student was cut short due to a rape allegation against him, has regained freedom after proving his innocence..... Read more via Linda Ikeji’s Blog –...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has renamed the new coronavirus as Covid-19. WHO announced the new name in its tweeter handle at @WHO that “we now have a name for 2019nCov disease.... Read more via P.M. News – https://ift.tt/2utYsrz Get more World News

Bitcoin is a digital asset and payment system with a market capitalization of around $180 billion as of September 2019. It is considered by many to be one of the most successful digital currencies ever created. .... Read more via Investopedia – https://ift.tt/2FHZBMJ Get more World News

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has said the increase in Value Added Tax (VAT) by the President Muhammadu Buhari government has rendered useless, the recent upward review of workers’ minimum wage from... Read more via Daily Post Nigeria – https://ift.tt/31N0oY1 Get More...

Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday, reacted to reports that the Federal Government released about 1,400 Boko Haram members. Omokri wondered how parents and family members of soldiers and victims killed... Read more via Daily Post Nigeria –...

The Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Mathew Kukah, on Tuesday, in Kaduna, expressed displeasure with the alleged poor management of Nigeria. The Bishop stated this in his homily at the Good Shepherd Major Seminary, Kaukau, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State before the.... Read...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has re-arraigned Mohammed Yunusa, a dismissed judge of the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court, and Esther Agbo, a member of staff of the law chambers of Rickey Tarfa (SAN) at an Ikeja Special Offences Court... Read more via Pulse...

A mother (name protected) has told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court that her three daughters, aged 12, nine and seven were allegedly defiled by a cleric. NAN reports that she spoke as the second prosecution witness in the.... Read more via Daily Post Nigeria –...

Sudan has agreed to hand ousted autocrat Omar al-Bashir and others to the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes in Darfur, a member of Khartoum’s ruling body said Tuesday.... Read more via The Guardian Nigeria News – https://ift.tt/38lG6ro Get more World News

The federal government, Tuesday, blamed mismanagement and incompetence of those with little knowledge of the aviation industry for the collapse of the national carrier, the Nigeria Airways... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/37hsuMg Get more: Nigeria Business News

Losses in heavy capitalised stocks weighed on the equities market, yesterday, leading to N154 billion losses to investors. Specifically, the equities market capitalisation went down to N 14.464 trillion from N14.618 trillion on Friday, indicating 1.05 percent decline.... Read more via...

The composition of the proposed board for the regional security network for the south west region, Amotekun, will have the representatives of the.... Read more via Premium Times Nigeria – https://ift.tt/37nX0V3 Get More Nigeria Political News

The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN has charged contractors working on the dualization of the Lokoja – Auchi – Benin road, to ensure that road users are not subjected to hardship while the work is ongoing.... Read more via Daily Post Nigeria – https://ift.tt/31IKwpw...

The trial of Convener of the #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare, was stalled today due to the absence of the presiding judge, Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja.... Read more via Channels Television – https://ift.tt/2w0YxDd Get More...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the inaction of the Buhari administration on the spiraled wave of killings, banditry and kidnapping, particularly the Sunday carnage in Auno, Borno state, by insurgents, has left the nation with no other.... Read more via Vanguard News –...

Kenyan gender rights campaigners on Tuesday urged authorities to set up a database for sexual offenders in a bid to enhance their rehabilitation. Uwemedimo Esiet, convener of the ninth African Conference on Sexual Health and Rights... Read more via Xinhuanet News – https://ift.tt/3bxBnoy Get...

An Indian Health Service pediatrician who was convicted of sexually abusing young Native American boys in his care over two decades and became an emblem of the federal agency’s long-term failures was sentenced Monday to five lifetime prison terms... Read more via FRONTLINE News –...