nigeria news today 08022018

The Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, has said in a new video that he is tired of the calamity befalling his group. “I am tired of this calamity; it is better I die and go to rest in paradise”, he said at the end of the 10-minute video. In the video, delivered chiefly in Hausa, Mr. Shekau...

An Indian woman’s husband and brother-in-law have been arrested after she told police they stole one of her kidneys in lieu of a dowry. Local media report that the West Bengal woman’s husband arranged an appendicitis surgery when she was Read more via Daily Nation | Home –...

A prosecution witness, Abubakar Madaki, on Wednesday, told the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, how wife of Chief Raymond Dokpesi, Oluwatosin, received over N100 million from the N2.1 billion paid to DAAR Investment company by the Office of National Security Adviser (ONSA). Read more...

Five men on Tuesday appeared before the newly inaugurated Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, for allegedly using social media to lure, kidnap and rape two women in Lagos. The accused are Gabriel Obinna, 20, Nnadozie Akabueze, 21, Hector Ugochukwu, 32, Chinedu … Read more via...

Lagos School Life Bencher, Mrs Hairat Aderinsola Balogun (nee Alatishe), is an Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON), Barrister-at-Law of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn and Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Read more via The Guardian Nigeria –...

The Economic and Financial Crimes (EFCC) has maintained that it has the jurisdiction to wade into the dispute between Innoson Group of Companies and Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB), as there are components of the tussle bordering on financial crimes. Read more via Thisdaylive –...

Court docks two for beating septuagenarian to coma in Ondo Six men, including a herbalist, who were alleged to be Badoo cult members, were yesterday charged with smashing the heads of a pastor and other family members with a grinding stone Read more via The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper –...

Suspected herdsmen ‪on Tuesday evening alleged killed the Area Commander of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Sheu Magu, in a village near Ogboro-Agbone Road, in Saki area of Oyo State. Other policemen were said to have received varying degrees of injuries Read more via The Guardian...

The PricewaterhouseCoopers says that increased foreign exchange demand ahead of the 2019 general election might make the Naira to weaken – The professional services firm projects that exports are likely to outpace imports on strong oil export revenues Read more via Nigeria News today –...