nigeria news today 29012018

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, presided over by Justice Ishaq Bello, on Monday warned Zamfara Sen. Isah Misau, against making further media comments concerning the issues for which he is being prosecuted by the federal government. The senator is facing charges brought...

Ali Abare, Gombe The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has detained a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) 2019 governorship aspirant in Gombe State, Alhaji Bala Bello Tinka, over alleged complicity involving the 2015 campaign funds. An anonymous source disclosed to Daily Sun on Monday...

Officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have reportedly grilled prison officials over Patience Jonathan’s N300 million contract. via Tori News – http://ift.tt/2FqPtae -- Get More Nigeria Political News

Aisha Yesufu, the co-convener of Bring Back Our Girls group has reacted to the meeting of President Muhammadu Buhari and former president Olusegun Obasanjo at AU summit. On Sunday night, the official Twitter handle of President Buhari shared pictures and video of the President shaking hands...

We are already on the first lap of electioneering process, the opposition or Obasanjo’s 3rd force are yet to name a candidate that can defeat an incumbent President… Is 2019 going to be a Landslide for the APC and President Mohammadu Buhari? via Nairaland – http://ift.tt/2nkw8kj -- Get...

A disturbing footage shows a Russian gang assaulting a young woman and filming it. In the video circulating online, the woman is seen surrounded by at least three men. Sitting on the only bed in the room, the woman held on tight to her trousers to stop them from stripping her but one of the men...

Young girls in Zimbabwe face death risk during childbirth or contracting diseases due to inconsistent laws making it difficult for teenagers to access sexual-health reproductive services, Amnesty International said in a report released Thursday. via sexual health – Google News –...

Swedish clothing giant H&M was forced to remove a range of children’s socks from its stores after receiving complaints that part of a design featuring a Lego man with a jackhammer allegedly resembled Arabic script for “Allah.” via RT International – http://ift.tt/2nkqv5C Get more World News

The aim and end of education is to instil in the individual those states of collective thinking and canons of morals…these are religious beliefs, moral beliefs and practices, national and occupational traditions and collective opinions of every kind. Their totality forms the social being. To...

A total of $2.356 billion dollars flowed into the Nigerian foreign exchange market last week through the Investors’ and Exporters’ window as well as the two interventions of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as the value of the naira is expected to inch upward this week. via Leadership...

The Chief Executive Officer, MainOne Broadband Company, Ms. Funke Opeke has said that Nigeria has immense broadband capacity because of submarine fibre optic cables connected through Europe. Opeke made the disclosure during the last week’s episode of ‘CNN Marketplace Africa’, a programme, which...

The Nigerian Communications Commission has said it will host a stakeholders’ session for the presentation of findings on the cost-based study for the determination of mobile voice termination rates in Nigeria. The NCC said in a statement that the stakeholders’ forum had been scheduled to hold on...

Officials at the Rigasa Railway Station of the Abuja-Kaduna rail lines have been accused of hoarding tickets from intending purchasers, thereby subjecting them to unnecessary hardship. THISDAY checks at the station yesterday revealed an ugly situation where ticket sellers were heavily involved...

An estimated $1.4 billion was spent by Nigerian air travellers in the purchase of airline tickets in 2017, says the National Association of Nigeria Travel Agencies (NANTA). President of NANTA, Mr. Bankole Bernards, who stated this in a press conference over the weekend in Lagos, however...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) will this week auction treasury bills worth N252.7 billion. A breakdown of the proposed sale of the fixed income instrument showed that the regulator will offer 91-day bills worth N6 billion; 182-day bills worth N69.5 billion and 364-day bills worth N177.2 …...