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Over the past several years, CES — formerly the Consumer Electronics Show — has shifted its focus from “traditional” consumer tech towards self-driving cars and Internet-connected kitchen appliances. Despite that, PC makes still showed up in droves to this year’s CES to flaunt their latest...

Nigerian singer and songwriter Simi, is one entertainer who often had to endure her own share of heavy criticisms because of her sense of style. Simi, 29 has has often faced bashing for almost anything she steps out in. Many of her loyal fans have advised her to get a … via INFORMATION...

Nigeria’s Commercial Banks have begun to disburse a 26 billion Naira special intervention fund for agricultural Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). This was made known at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Bankers Committee’s yearly retreat in Lagos last week. The scheme, called the “Agriculture...

ABUJA/DAKAR (Reuters) – A leading member of a separatist movement in Cameroon has been taken into custody in the capital of neighboring Nigeria with his aides, sources and secessionists said on Saturday. The once-fringe Anglophone movement in majority Francophone Cameroon has gathered pace in...

Talk about things couples could do for each other and for love, and this is one. A yet to be identified bride reportedly left her surgical bed at Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja in Kogi State, for her wedding scheduled to hold today in a wheel … via Nigerian: Breaking News In Nigeria | Laila’s...

The Federal Government has declared Monday, Dec. 25, Tuesday, Dec. 26 and Monday, Jan. 1, 2018 as public holidays for the Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year celebrations. The newly elected National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus has refuted reports that...

Nigeria's former Education Minister, Oby Ezekwesili, has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari paid a visit to Ebonyi and Kano states to campaign for the 2019 presidential elections. She also faulted Buhari's claim that he has the votes of Kano people in 2019 elections. “There one was...

World football body FIFA has fined the Nigeria Football Federation 6,000 Swiss Francs (approximately N2,175,660.00) for fielding an ineligible player in their last qualification game for the Russia 2018 World Cup. Nigeria fielded Shehu Abdullahi for the game and according to FIFA, the...

Atiku Abubakar has advised the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to remain united to stand any chance of displacing the All Progressive Congress, APC, from power come 2019. In a press statement issued by his media office congratulating Uche Secondus as the new national chairman of the PDP and...

Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode has commended Atiku Abubakar for his anti-APC speech during the PDP national convention on Saturday. He also congratulated Uche Secondus on his emergence as PDP's national secretary. “Congrats to the newly-elected National Chairman of our great party the PDP, Prince Uche...

Bode George has withdrawn from the PDP National Chairman race. Speaking on Friday, he said he "entered the race due to the micro zoning arrangement. This micro zoning has been trashed, dumped on the dust bin for personal reason. It appears that PDP is bent on self destruction. It has lost its...

The Nigerian government graduate recruitment scheme, N-Power, has issued a date for the physical verification exercise of its latest intakes. The scheme had on Sunday announced the postponement of the exercise. On Thursday, a tweet from N-power said: “Dear 2017 pre-selected applicants...

Nigeria's former aviation minister, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode has proclaimed that the indiscriminate killings of Christians in northern Nigeria will not go unpunished. "As long as Jesus is on the throne the cold-blooded murder of Christians in Nigeria by radical Islamist terrorists, whether they be...

Nigeria's Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, believes its time for the Muhammadu Buhari government to focus on governance and stop blaming the past administration for the moribund state of the country's economy. “I agree with those who said we should stop criticising the last...

Petrolex Oil & Gas Limited is planning to construct a $3.6bn refinery with a capacity of refining 250,000 barrels of oil a day, according to its CEO, Segun Adebutu. He said the firm is working on the refinery's “front-end engineering design” and will complete construction in 2021. Petrolex is...

Nigeria's information Minister, Lai Mohammed, has assured that government has no plan to increase the pump price of petrol. Speaking after the federal executive council meeting on Wednesday , he said: “The minister of petroleum was suppose to join us but he has to attend a very important...

The presidency has explained that the herd of cattle seen in a recent video on the internet grazing near the presidential villa in Aso Rock belong to the Presidency. The video showed herdsmen direct a herd of cattle led along a road near the entrance to the vice president’s official residence...

A doctor at the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital has leveled an allegation against SARS officers. According to him, they do approach him for death certificates for corpses during his night shifts. He said they always claim the cause of death of these people is unknown yet they know their...

An Abuja Division of the Federal High Court has rescinded its May 30 order which froze 16 accounts belonging to Patience Jonathan. Justice Binta Nyako withdrew the order on Tuesday on the grounds that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission which secured the freezing order failed to...

Senator Isah Misau has demanded an end to the nefarious activities of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad unit of the Nigerian police following public complaints over their conduct and behaviors. Speaking during plenary on Tuesday, he cited orders 42 and 52 and spike on the recent happenings with...