naija news today 291018

VALUE of Point of Sale (PoS) transactions grew by 57 percent quarter-on-quarter, QoQ, to N1.6 trillion in the third quarter of 2018, Q3’18, from N1.02 trillion in Q2’18.... Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2DansGG Get more: Nigeria Business News

A Star is Born movie, starring Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, continues to control conversations even in the music world. According to THR, the movie’s soundtrack earned 109,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Oct. 25, and so holds its position at the top of the Billboard 200 albums...

A group has condemned the recent declaration made by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, over his paid income tax in the past three years. The group said the tax declaration made by Atiku is filled with irregularities that needs further probing...

Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, at the weekend said he was going to wind up the All Progressives Congress (APC), a party he said was about cultism and killings. The governor, who spoke in Yenagoa during a chat with the media, said leaders of the party were not interested in the...

Mr. Adekunle Ojo is a former Vice-President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). In this interview with AKEEM NAFIU, he speaks on face-off between the Federal Government and the labour unions on new minimum wage, killings in Kaduna State, pegging of campaign fund by National Assembly and...

Justice O. O. Majekodunmi of an Ogun State High Court in Abeokuta has discharged and acquitted a former Minister of Works, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe and two others over an alleged stealing preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).... Read more via...

Politics in Nigeria is gradually becoming affairs of a few families as some of them sit side-by-side to deliberate on important legislations and policies that affect the future of more than 180 million people.... Read more via Newtelegraph – https://ift.tt/2CMmZd2 Get More Nigeria Political...

Former England manager and Tottenham midfielder Glenn Hoddle remains in a “serious condition” in hospital after suffering a heart attack on Saturday. Hoddle, who is “responding well to treatment”, collapsed after appearing on BT Sport on his 61st birthday.... read more via Vanguard News –...

Super Eagles Manager, Gernot Rohr, is already spoiling for war for the 2019 AFCON qualifying decider against Bafana Bafana of South Africa declaring that his target is to finish top of the group. The German gaffer admitted that winning away in Johannesburg on November 17 would never be an …...

Man United vs Everton: Jose Mourinho insisted he is happy for Paul Pogba to remain his penalty taker despite the midfielder missing from the spot for the second time this season in Manchester United’s 2-1 win over Everton.... more via Vanguard Newspaper – https://ift.tt/2qdJcsU Get More...

A police officer who was part of the police team that killed an ex-minister’s daughter, Anita Akapson, has reportedly been drafted into the homicide investigating team. Recall that we reported that Anita Akapson, the daughter of a former Minister of State for Finance, Nenadi Usman, was shot …...

Smugglers have now devised dangerous means of concealing and transporting smuggled rice and other contraband in cement trucks and containers. The Zonal Controller of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Federal Operations Unit (FOU), Zone ‘C,’ Owerri, Imo State, Mr. Olusemire Kayode .... Read...

Swedish researchers have found that people were more likely to have heart attacks when the weather is bad. According to findings published in the ‘Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Cardiology... Read more via Newtelegraph – https://ift.tt/2qeaW0m Get More Nigeria Metro News

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, October 29, condoled with the family of a former minister of works and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Tony Anenih. The president describing Anenih as a beloved patriarch and elder statesman, condoled with the government of Edo state, Anenih's...

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo who was Chairman and Special Guest of Honour at the launch of Five Fascinating Bookswritten by Funmilayo Braithwaite, in Abuja on Sunday, disclosed that he was learning the ‘Shaku Shaku’ dance steps for campaigns ahead of the 2019 general elections. Yemi Osinbajo...

Barely two weeks to the commencement of open campaigns by political parties, it has become apparent that as it happened in the build up to the 2015 poll, the power of incumbency is fast turning … Read more via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper – Nigeria and World News – https://ift.tt/2DdzLlM...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said President Muhammadu Buhari’s declaration in an affidavit supporting his nomination form that his certificates are with the military, makes him ineligible to contest the 2019 presidential election. The party also warned President Buhari... Read more...

Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has said the second term of President Muhammadu Buhari will benefit Nigeria and Nigerians. Addressing some support groups in Abuja over the weekend, the governor said Nigeria cannot afford to change the President in 2019... Read more via...

Leicester City FC has confirmed its owner’s death, in a helicopter crash on Saturday near the club’s stadium in Leicester, England. Thai billionaire Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, was one of five people on board the aircraft when it burst into flames after crashing in a parking lot next to …...

Lothar Matthaeus is one of the best-known faces in German football. A serial champion, who led his country to the World Cup title in 1990 and also won the Champions League with Bayern Munich, Matthaeus is now a pundit … read more via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper – Nigeria and World News –...