nigeria news today 310118

The digital currency market is extending its losses, with all the major cryptocurrencies on a broad sell-off. Bitcoin is headed for its worst monthly slide since December 2013. The market leading digital currency slid 12 percent on Wednesday to $9,817, before recovering slightly above $10,000...

WATCH LIVE: 1st super blue blood moon eclipse in 150 yrs Published time: 31 Jan, 2018 11:16 Edited time: 31 Jan, 2018 11:16 A rare confluence of a blue moon, a super moon, a blood moon and a total lunar eclipse is underway in the sky over parts of the … via RT International –...

An Upper Area Court sitting in Kasuwan Nama, Jos, on Wednesday sentenced a farmer, Wunde-Fenan Juna, to three years imprisonment for raping an 8-year-old girl. The presiding Judge, Mr Yahaya Mohammed, handed down the sentence after the convict pleaded guilty to the charge of rape. Mohammed said...

The minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Muhammad Bello, has inaugurated the newly-reconstituted boards of 12 agencies and parastatals under the FCT administration. This was made known in a press statement signed by his chief press secretary, Cosmas Uzodinma, on Wednesday. The boards...

A red moon will grace the sky in most parts of China for over an hour during a total lunar eclipse on Wednesday night, according to the Beijing Planetarium. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2DP6Q89 Get more World News

Jose Mourinho has revealed Juan Mata’s contract at Manchester United has been extended for another year. via TODAY.NG – http://ift.tt/2BFvIti --------------- Get More Nigeria Sports News

Maiduguri – The Nigerian Army on Wednesday said it had embarked on road construction project in Sambisa Forest as part of ongoing clearance operation to dislodge remnants of Boko Haram insurgents. Dozens of recruits undergo training at headquaters, Depot of the Nigerian Army in Zaria, Kaduna...

The Chief Whip of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, has described a comment credited to him over ongoing electoral reforms as ‘misunderstood’. In the report by Daily Trust, Mr. Doguwa allegedly said the amendment of the electoral act was a mischievous plan targeted at...

Some directors in the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) have raised an alarm over recent developments in the agency, particularly the change in leadership. The directors, in a letter to the House of Representatives Committee on Security and National Intelligence, called for an urgent...

Tunde Bakare A former Vice-Presidential Candidate of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Mr Tunde Bakare has said that if he is Nigeria’s President, he would ‘clamp down’ on herdsmen. Bakare in an interview with Channels Television on Sunday lamented the spate of killings...

Goal brings you live updates of all the latest transfer rumours and news in the January window’s transfer deadline day! via Goal.com News – International – http://ift.tt/2rSyxrh --------------- Get More Nigeria Sports News

Manchester United could complete two deals today – Sky Sports reporter Express.co.uk Full coverage via manchester united – Google News – http://ift.tt/2rRRPNk --------------- Get More Nigeria Sports News

The US has released a sweeping list of prominent Russian business and political figures, in defiance of Moscow and implementing a Congressional law designed to punish Russia for election meddling. The US Treasury report, published shortly before a midnight deadline, listed every senior member of...

Kano State Governor, Alhaji Abdullahi Ganduje Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State says that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will emerge victorious in the upcoming local government election in the state. Ganduje said this on Tuesday while presenting APC flags to 16 Kano south chairmanship...

Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State The Forum of Health NGOs in Zamfara has commended the state government over the on-going recruitment of doctors, nurses and midwives in the state health sector. The Forum’s Chairman, Mr Musa Aboki made the commendation at the meeting between the state...

Umar Ango A man identified as Umar Ango, has hailed president Muhammadu Buhari after making a whopping sum of N1,375,000 from his rice harvest this week. The farmer posed with his huge cash to share the result of his hard work. Below is what was shared online; “President Buhari, may … via...

…Fear grips 12 other detainees in Medina Prison Nearly four months after a Nigerian was executed in Saudi Arabia for alleged drug-related offence, two more countrymen have been killed in a similar manner, sending fears to no fewer than 15 others being detained in parts of the Middle East...

All appears set for the unveiling this Wednesday of former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s massive Coalition for Nigeria (CAN) Movement. Obasanjo broke the news of the coalition in a long “special statement” in which he lashed the President Muhammau Buhari administration for incompetence and...

Molly Kilete, Abuja The police in Karu, a satellite town in the Federal Capital Territory ( FCT), Abuja, have arrested 84 foreigners who reportedly sneaked into the country at the Karu abattoir. The Daily Sun gathered that the foreigners, said to Fulani from Niger Republic, were arrested by a …...

A leader of the Nigeria Intervention Movement, NIM, Chief Olisa Agbakoba, has said that the position of Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai on President Muhammadu Buhari was not correct. During an interview on Channels Television at the weekend, the governor had said that Buhari remained the...