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Popular transgender, Bobrisky just find his a mother after his late mother. Bobrisky took to his Snapchat account to confirm that Nollywood actress, Toyin Abraham is her new mother. via Nollyzone News » Feed – https://ift.tt/2t6P1t3 Get more Nigeria Entertainment News

The referees’ appointment arm of world football governing body FIFA at the 2018 World Cup in Russia on Wednesday released names of officials for matches billed for Friday. Three matches are slated for the day, with Egypt taking on Uruguay in Ekaterinburg in Group A. … read more via Premium...

At least 11 African countries did not vote for Morocco to host the 2026 World Cup. They are: Benin, Guinea, Liberia, Mozambique, Namibia, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Botswana, Cape Verde and Lesotho are the other countries. Instead they opted for a joint bid of the … read more...

ABA—ABIA State Governor,Dr.Okezie Ikpeazu has condemned the sale of school land in the state and warned that anybody who erects structures on school land will forfeit such to the government. The governor who was reacting to the sale of school land by some missions … Read more via Vanguard...

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has denied allegation of interfering in the activities of the Peace Corps of Nigeria. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja...... Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2MorRaD Get More Nigeria Metro News

Justice O.A Obaseki-Osaghae of the National Industrial Court (NIC) has directed the Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH) to recall Mr Olu Ibirogba, its bursar who was sacked in July 2015 for exposing alleged corruption in the institution.... Read more via TODAY.NG – https://ift.tt/2y9gIaD...

A first class traditional ruler in Benue State, Chief Abu King Shuluwa, has vowed that the Tiv will never cede any part of their land to the Fulani herdsmen, no matter the intimidation. Shuluwa, who … Read more via The Sun News – https://ift.tt/2yb17r8 Get More Nigeria Metro News

A Lagos High Court in Igbosere on Thursday authorized Peter Nielsen, the Danish national accused of killing of his wife, Zainab and their three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Petra, to have his blood analyzed for DNA. Justice Bola Okikiolu-Ighile permitted the sample to be collected by the...

ABUJA—THE Federal Government said, yesterday, that the recent declaration of June 12 as public holiday will only come into effect after the amendment of the Public Holidays Act. The government also … Read more via Vanguard News – https://ift.tt/2HNFgFs Get More Nigeria Political News

The signing of the 2018 Appropriation Bill by President Muhammadu Buhari, which was expected to hold Wednesday could not because of the absence of Senate President Bukola Saraki and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, who were out of the country.... Read more via...

Italy’s Supreme Court threw out an appeal from Shell and four former Shell managers to stop a trial on alleged corruption in Nigeria, which also sees Eni’s chief facing charges, legal sources said Wednesday. The … Read more via Thisdaylive – https://ift.tt/2sW2bdm Get More Nigeria...

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) rose from its weekly meeting in the State House Abuja Wednesday with cheery news of the forthcoming repatriation of $500 million loot from United Kingdom, United States and France to Nigeria. The money was part of the huge sums stolen by the...

Ekiti Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has sacked two members of the board of the state Teaching Service Commission, Chief Gabriel Falayi and Chairman, Governing Council of the College of Education, Ikere Ekiti, Prof. Babajide Alo. Their sack … Read more via The Sun News –...

Real Madrid expect £100million will be enough to buy David de Gea from Manchester United this summer, reports say. De Gea has been constantly linked with a transfer to Madrid and was on the verge of switch to Real … read more via Metro – https://ift.tt/2JNOeHT Get More Nigeria Sports News

Three-time winner Tiger Woods will play with Justin Thomas and Dustin Johnson, the top two players in the world rankings, when the US Open tees off on Thursday, 14 June. The second major of the year is being..... read more via BBC Sport – https://ift.tt/2l8mIH5 Get More Nigeria Sports News

A driver, Emmanuel Okorie, who allegedely defiled his neighbour’s 15-year-old sister, has denied the allegation leveled against him by the Lagos State Government. The defendant, who is standing trial before a Lagos High Court sitting in Igbosere, on Wednesday, told Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye: “I...

The Police Service Commission has approved the promotion of 3,665 senior Police officers. In a statement on Wednesday the Head, Press and Public Relations, Ikechukwu Ani, said the promotion was one of the high points of the Commission’s 28th Plenary Meeting which ended in Abuja on Friday, …...

The Federal High Court in Lagos has ordered the temporary forfeiture of N2.2billion recovered from a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu. Justice Mojisola Olatoregun made the order after listening to an ex-parte application brought before her by the Economic and Financial …...

A jubilant-sounding President Donald Trump declared Wednesday that his “deal” with Kim Jong Un has ended the North Korean nuclear threat, as his top diplomat said he hoped to see “major disarmament” of the country by 2020. Despite the lack of detail, or binding terms in the joint statement...

Right now is a nice time to be Canadian. Brought up in Canada, as I was, and married to a woman so Canadian that she is both Winnipeg Icelandic and Winnipeg Jewish (you would have to be a Canadian to grasp the full glory of that combination), … Read more via The New Yorker –...