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The Chief Judge of Delta State, Marshal Umukoro, has announced that only judicial officers under 50 years of age are now eligible for appointment as judges in the state. Umukoro announced this in a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer in the Office of the Chief Judge, … Read...

Angered by what the senate president, Dr. Bukola Saraki said was his reason for visiting ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo, the social media aide to president Muhammadu Buhari, Mrs. Lauretta Onochie on Tuesday frowned at Saraki’s statement and dramatically explained their conversation in what can...

Angelika Graswald, the woman who caused her fiancé’s death in 2015 by pulling the drain plug no his kayak as he entered turbulent waters, has just been awarded part of his $1 million life insurance. Read more via RadarOnlineRadarOnline – https://ift.tt/2P94LGm Get more World News

Sherri Shepherd shredded Omarosa to pieces … accusing her of trying to lead black people to the slaughterhouse in the name … Read more via TMZ.com – https://ift.tt/2MIJlxX Get more World News

Co-founders of Tinder and eight other former and current executives of the popular dating app are suing the service’s current owners, alleging that they manipulated the valuation of the company to deny them of billions of dollars they were owed. The suit, filed Tuesday in state court in New …...

The FBI has warned banks that ATMs will likely face a global attack by criminals in the “coming days.” The FBI was tipped off that these cybercriminals would hack payment card processors or banks and use ATMs all over the world to withdraw millions of dollars over the … Read more via The...

Unilever Nigeria Plc recently released its H1 2018 financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2018. Here are the key highlights of the reports: Revenue The company reported a turnover of ₦48.13 billion for the period ended June 2018 compared to ₦42.63 … Read more via Nairametrics –...

The National President of Northeast Commodity Association (NECAS), Alhaji Sadiq Deware has confirmed that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) through its Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP), has approved a credit facility of N14.9 billion to the association. Deware said under the programme, 27,000...

Africa’s largest cement producer, Dangote Cement has issued series 3 and 4 of 180-day debt notes under its N150 billion commercial paper (CP) programme. N50 billion worth of CPs have been issued at 13.2 percent according to the dealers Stanbic IBTC and FBNQuest as reported by Bloomberg. This...

Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company (PHED) has urged both the federal and state governments to pay the N10.2 billion electricity bill they owed the company. A statement issued by PHED’s manager of corporate communication, John Onyi, on Monday in Port Harcourt quoted the … Read...

An Austrian company, Sustainable Environmental Technology GmbH Austria, is set to build a waste to energy plant in three industrial cities in Anambra State, Chuma Okeke, Senior Special Assistant to the Governor of Anambra state on International Business Development said in a press statement last...

The Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, Major-General Abba Dikko has emphasized the conduct of thorough needs assessment to enhance the quality of intervention and assistance provided for Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, and other victims of war in the North-East. The Theatre...

A Professor of African History and Security Studies at the University of Ibadan, Prof. Isaac Olawale Albert, has described the Boko Haram insurgency as “ideological war,” noting that the Nigerian military cannot win the anti-terror war with firearms alone. Albert, who spoke on Tuesday in …...

Members of Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies (SSAEAC) on Tuesday blocked the entrance of the Ministry of Power and Abuja headquarters of Transmission Company Of Nigeria (TCN), in protest. The workers are protesting over alleged non-implementation of agreements...

A leading member of the Kwankwasiyya movement in Kano, Hajiya Binta Spikin has broken the suspense and anxiety that followed the defection of Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso from the ruling All Progressive Congress APC to the People’s Democratic Party PDP stating that he … Read more via Vanguard...

The Igbo Leaders of Thought, ILT, has demanded for a fresh Nigeria constitution that would be adopted for operation before the February 2019 general elections..... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2MKWxCJ Get More Nigeria Political News

Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Presidential aspirant, Alhaji Ahmed Markafi said he was denied the party’s ticket in 2007 without any reason. The former PDP national chairman, who led the PDP through a hard fought legal battle to wrestle the reins of leadership from the Senator Ali Modu Sheriff...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said Turkey would boycott US electronic goods like the iPhone in retaliation for punitive sanctions from Washington, as the Turkish lira finally clawed back some ground after going into a tailspin over the tensions.... Read more via The Guardian...

The police on Tuesday charged a father from the eastern German state of Thuringia with sexually abusing his daughters 800 times during a span of six years. A spokesman for the police confirmed that the public prosecutor in the town of Muehlhausen has brought the charges against … Read more...

10 Women have been killed in a fire in a nursing home in Chile, news portal Emol reported. The fire broke out early Tuesday in the home, which is situated in Chiguayante, a city 500 kilometres south of the capital... Read more via Punch Newspapers – https://ift.tt/2Ba5UKT Get more World News