nigeria news today 050518

An oil worker abducted during a Joint investigative Visit (JIV) on April 19 at an oilfield operated by Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) in Kalaba community has regained freedom. Community sources in Kalaba and Ayambele in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa said that the … Read more...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has explained it will not create new polling units because it is too late to do so with the 2019 elections less than 10 months away. The commission’s chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, stated on Friday this while responding to a … Read more via...

Karenga Ramadhan, president of The National Council of Communication in Burundi, speaks during a press conference in the capital Bujumbura on May 4, 2018, to announce the suspension of BBC and VOA for six months from May 7. Burundi’s press regulator on Friday said it was … Read more via...

Davido, Wizkid, Simi, Tiwa, Olamide, All Eyes ‘Artiste Of The Year’ It will be battle royale this evening, as The Headies, one of Nigeria’s biggest music award established to recognise outstanding achievement in the Nigerian music industry holds at the Eko Hotel & Suites, … via The Guardian...

Curiosity makes youths to experiment with drugs –Psychiatrist “I still don’t regret my action because I cannot see myself living with somebody that I don’t love and this is a person I hate the most. I was forcefully married out by my parents and I warned them that the … Read more via...

Women lawyers in Bayelsa under the auspices of International Federation of Women Lawyers, FIDA, has pledged to stand against any form of domestic violence against women and children in the society. The Chairperson of FIDA, Yenagoa branch......................... Read more via The Guardian...

Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister, on Friday warned Nigerians against voting President Muhammadu Buhari for a second term. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain warned that if Buhari returns as President in 2019, Nigeria will be “soaked in blood.” In a tweet, Fani-Kayode...

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State on Friday declared that he has no anointed candidate for the September 22, 2018 gubernatorial election in the state. Aregbesola, who was on sensitisation tour to Iwo, in the Osun West Senatorial District, was reacting to profound and consistent agitation...

Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State on Friday declared that the local government election billed to hold on Saturday 12th May will hold in all the 33 local government areas, 35 local council development areas and over 600 wards in the state. This is despite a Federal … Read more via Daily...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the commission had no connection with the voters register used in the Kano local government elections in which underage voters allegedly participated. The chairman of the Commission, Mahmood Yakubu on Friday told journalists in Abuja...

Violence broke out on Friday as members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State wreaked havoc at the party’s secretariat in Port Harcourt. Ahead of the party’s congresses across the country on Saturday, hundreds of supporters protested the alleged unacceptable development in the...

A young man has decided to put himself in the spotlight after revealing ‘plans for his future’. According to the guy who hails from Benin city, Edo state capital and claims to a rich kid, he will continue to sleep around … Read more via Naijaloaded | Nigeria’s Most Visited Music &...

Kingsley Oriaku is a chieftain of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and an aspirant to the House of Representatives to represent Ikwuano/Umuahia Federal Constituency of Abia State in 2019. In this interview with ONYEANUNA ONYEDIKACHI, he speaks on what prompted his ambition to...

Folorunso Engineer Olusegun Oni was a former governor of Ekiti state. He is among 33 governorship aspirants on the platform of the All Progressives Congress who will participate in today’s primaries to pick the party’s candidate for the state’s governorship election. In this interview, Chief …...

Former President George H.W. Bush has been released from the hospital and is already making plans for summer travel. Bush’s spokesman Jim McGrath tweeted Friday evening the president was released from Methodist Hospital in Houston after being treated for an infection for two weeks. “His...

Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure will leave the club at the end of the season, Pep Guardiola revealed, yesterday. Toure, who signed a one-year contract at the end of last season, joined City from Barcelona in 2010 and quickly became one of City’s most influential players, playing a …...

The top seven teams in the Premier League will all qualify for Europe, but the last placed of those face the ignominy of starting their Europa League campaign at the second qualifying round stage, scheduled for July 26. That is the day Arsenal have agreed to play a rematch … read more via...

Adelani Adepegba, Abuja No less than 31,672 Nigerians are on the watch list of the Nigeria Immigration Service. It was gathered that the citizens who are on the watch list were prevented from travelling out of the country in 2017. The NIS Public Relations Officer, Sunday James, declined …...

Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola has charged power distribution companies, DisCos, in the country to improve on their service delivery by getting their employees on the field and interface with electricity consumers with a view to rectifying whatever problems the...

National Assembly To guarantee food security among Nigeria’s teeming population, Emir of Argungu, Samai’la Muhammad Mera has called on the National Assembly to pass the Right to Food Bill without further hesitation. He made the call while responding to a detailed … Read more via The...