nigeria news today 210418

Family of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu has expressed anger and worry over the conflicting reports concerning his whereabouts. The family, speaking through Prince Emmanuel Kanu, called on the military to tell them where their parents and son, Nnamdi are. Ever...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El’rufai, of lack of adherence to law and order and dereliction of duty, and declared him missing in the state. The party said the governor breached the law by being absent from his duty post as the state’s elected...

The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, has reacted to a report detailing how her ministry illegally approved N10billion for the National Assembly. The report indicated that Adeosun released the money to the lawmakers, despite the N125billion appropriated for the federal legislature in the 2017...

INVESTIGATIONS by Saturday Vanguard have revealed that last Wednesday’s invasion of the National Assembly was a scripted plot to force the reinstatement of Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and instigate the removal of the Senator Bukola Saraki leadership of the Senate. It was learned that the conspiracy...

28-year-old Agnes Masogange, a Tanzanian video vixen and model who was once linked to Nigerian superstar singer, Davido is dead. READ MORE HERE

It’s the kind of nightmarish situation to keep you awake at night. Half an hour into their journey, passengers on Southwest flight 1380 heard an explosion and suddenly oxygen masks descended from above. The plane began descending rapidly and messages from the pilot couldn’t be heard over the...

Swedish DJ Avicii, one of the world’s biggest dance music stars, has died in Oman at the age of 28. Avicii’s club anthems include Wake Me Up, Levels, and recently, Lonely Together with Rita Ora. His representative said in a statement: "It is with profound … Read more via BBC News –...

The Prince of Wales will succeed the Queen as head of the Commonwealth, its leaders have announced. The Queen had said it was her "sincere wish" that Prince Charles … Read more via BBC News – https://ift.tt/2JaTXna Get more World News

In an exclusive interview with USA Today, it was revealed that Flickr, a photo-sharing site purchased by Yahoo Holdings (Oath Inc.) in 2005, has been bought out by SmugMug. SmugMug, a family-owned photo-sharing site launched in 2002, says Flickr will remain in its current form and even receive...

Facebook spent $3.3 million on lobbying in the United States during the first quarter of 2018, disclosures filed with the government Friday showed. The multi-million dollar effort marks the largest tab the company has ever racked up on lobbying in a single quarter. According to the documents...

If you bought a 13-inch MacBook Pro without Touch Bar between October 2016 to October 2017, it seems that you might be eligible for a battery replacement. This is because Apple has recently launched a battery replacement program for the laptop where they claim that there is an issue … Read...

Just the other day, we passed along the news that the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry Standards (BIS) was reviving a U.S. export ban that prevents Chinese phone manufacturer ZTE from purchasing anything from the U.S. The ban runs to March 2025. Last year, ZTE was … Read more...

A man accused of killing a 19-year-old nearly seven years ago fled the Fulton County courthouse before the verdict was read, the district attorney’s office said. Verlaine Laguerre, 26, disappeared Friday afternoon before jurors convicted him of killing Matthew Hardeman, Fulton district attorney...

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will establish ‘a shadow cabinet’ ahead of the general elections in 2019. This was disclosed in a statement on Friday, signed by the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan. According to him, this was part of the resolutions reached at the end …...

Rattled by our report that the National Assembly under his leadership illegally received N10billion from the treasury, the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has threatened to sue PREMIUM TIMES over the publication. The story entitled: “EXCLUSIVE: Minister Adeosun, Saraki, Dogara...

President Donald Trump suggested on Friday night that the Russia investigation being conducted by special counsel Robert Mueller is illegitimate. That's the conclusion Trump floated in a tweet, in which he drew a handful conclusions about the series of events he believes led to Mueller's...

The Democratic Party filed a lawsuit Friday alleging that Russia, WikiLeaks and top officials from Donald Trump’s campaign conspired to tilt the 2016 US presidential election in the Republican’s favour. The civil complaint filed in federal District Court in Manhattan by the Democratic National...

The Lagos State Government will on Sunday unveil a new statue of Chief Gani Fawehinmi, SAN sited at the beautiful park in Ojota which is named after the late legal luminary and human rights advocate. Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, with members of the Gani Fawehinmi family, leading voices … Read...

President Muhammadu Buhari would not be supported by the South-West geo-political zone in his quest to secure a second term in office in 2019, unless he starts taking concrete steps on the issue of restructuring of the country now, the Yoruba Council of Elders (YCE), has declared. Making the...

The senator representing Katsina South, Abu Ibrahim, on Friday said the President Muhammadu Buhari Support Group would be inaugurating its offices in three states in the South-South on Monday. He said the inauguration would kick-start Buhari’s re-election process. Ibrahim disclosed this in an...