naija news today 270919

The first IAAF World Athletics Championships of the post-Usain Bolt era gets underway on Friday with the sport desperately seeking a new superstar as it tackles a slew of ongoing doping controversies. More than 2 000 athletes from over 200 countries and territories will take part across …...

A young man who is into sales of gadget and laptops has allegedly been robbed of 3 Macbooks and an..... Read more via Nigeria News | Laila’s Blog – https://ift.tt/2m1EWhQ Get More Nigeria Metro News

International aid agencies in Nigeria have repeatedly found themselves on a collision course with the authorities, with the latter accusing them of sabotaging its efforts to fight extremists and terrorists. Northeast Nigeria has been blighted by a decade-long insurgency led by militant group...

67 years until Nigeria exhausts proven gas reserves As at the end of 2018, Nigeria’s total proven gas reserves were 202Trillion Cubic Feet (TCF), 37.26% of the total African deposits. With these reserves, Nigeria is second to none in Africa, and 9th in the world. The potential is even …...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Oracle Corp (ORCL.N), which has clashed with Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) in business disputes, has received requests for information from congressional and state investigators looking into allegations that Google violated antitrust law. Oracle, which is knowledgeable...

Facebook’s Libra could potentially solve some of the problems in the international payments market, but it might create a number of others that will require creative thinking by the regulators, says an European central banker. In comments to the German federal parliament Bundestag on...

Zimbabwe announced on Thursday that ex-president Robert Mugabe would be buried at his home village in Zvimba as requested by his family, and no longer at a special mausoleum that was already under construction. The government said the family of the … Read more via Daily Nation | Home –...

Mattel, the company that conquered the doll world by dividing it into idealized Barbies and Kens, is introducing a new line of gender-neutral dolls for boys, girls and children in between. The new line, introduced on Wednesday and called Creatable World, is intended to reflect our culture …...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has signed an agreement with Nigeria Agip Oil Company (NAOC) and Oando for the transfer of its stake in four oil wells to the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), its upstream arm. The four oil blocks divested to NPDC are Oil...

President Muhammed Buhari has revealed that Nigeria lost 157.5 billion dollars to illicit financial flows between 2003 and 2012. He made this declaration during a side event organised by the African Union Development Agency and New Partnership for Africa’s Development at the 74th United...