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The Peoples Democratic Party on Monday denied reports that key leaders of the party had endorsed one of its presidential aspirants as candidate for the 2019 elections. Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2JAMG0u Get More Nigeria Political News

A former Abia State Governor, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu, says President Muhammadu Buhari has addressed the injustice associated with the annulment of June 12, 1993 Presidential Election by declaring the date as Nigeria’s true democracy day...... Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2sNIHaz Get...

Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BOT), Senator Walid Jibrin has said the party is not in a hurry to reconstitute the board. In a statement on Monday in Kaduna, Jibrin said the process of reconstituting the board will commence as soon as … Read more via...

A fishing enthusiast in China made a catch with a difference during a recent outing. Footage shows how the angler reeled in a large and highly unusual fish with a bulbous pigeon-shaped head. Stunned onlookers took pictures of the unique bird-like creature on their phone as it lay gasping …...

The new documents reveal that in 2017, Ivanka Trump earned $3.9 million from her stake in the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, both senior advisers to President Donald Trump, disclosed new details of their vast wealth on Monday, reporting a long of...

The shrinking Sea of Galilee, the inland lake where Christians believe Jesus walked on water, is to be topped up with desalinated seawater. A plan given Israeli cabinet approval will pump 100 million cubic metres of water annually by 2022 into the lake in the Galilee region, said … Read...

C&I Leasing Plc has announced that its N7 billion bond issuance was oversubscribed by 133%. Chukwuma Okolo, Chairman C&I Leasing Plc, disclosed this at the signing ceremony with issuance houses in Lagos. According to the Cable, the bond offer is a five-year fixed rate senior secured bond...

With the meeting of President Trump and Kim Jong-un of North Korea on Tuesday in Singapore, human rights groups are watching for Mr. Trump to bring up North Korea’s widespread crimes against humanity. Mr. Kim rules with extreme brutality, making his nation among...... Read more via NYT >...

A government crackdown in two regions of Cameroon where English-speaking separatists are campaigning for an independent state has inflamed the crisis, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. In a 37-page report, the human-rights watchdog said it had catalogued unlawful killings, destruction of...

Late last year, we mentioned that Wole Soyinka‘s acclaimed play, The Lion and the Jewel is being adapted into a film by Tunde Kelani. Now, Mo Abudu has also announced that EbonyLife will be adapting another Wole Soyinka play, Death and the King’s Horseman, into a film. Sharing the epic news …...

The top 5 weekly music countdown continues this week with your favourite Afrobeats tunes on the playlist. Wizkid hones the number one position with the trending music single that saw him vocally assist the banging comeback of Obianuju crooner and Port Harcourt’s first son, Duncan ‘Wene’ Mighty...

The Federal Government has declared Friday, 15th and Monday, 18th June as public holidays to celebrate this year’s Eid-el Fitr. This was confirmed by the Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, on Monday, in a statement signed by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Dr M. B. Umar …...

A Mexican politician was shot dead while posing in a selfie with his thumbs up. Federal deputy Fernando Puron Johnston was posing for the photo with a supporter when a gunman approached him from behind. The bearded assailant shot Mr Johnston a number of times, including a fatal blow … Read...

Jada Pinkett Smith received a different kind of sex talk at an early age. The actress talks all about sex in the newest episode of her Facebook Watch show Red Table Talk alongside her mother Adrienne Banfield-Jones, 64, and her 17-year-old daughter Willow. After Banfield-Jones admits that she...

Washington (CNN) - The US Treasury Department has imposed fresh sanctions on five Russian entities and three individuals, saying that they worked with Moscow's military and intelligence services in an effort to conduct cyberattacks against the US. The latest step by the Trump administration...

It is often said that when one leaves this part of existence to the great beyond, all that is left of one is the legacy and work one has done. If there is anyone who has etched his name in the minds of reggae music lovers, Ekeleke Elumelu better known … via Sahara Reporters –...