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Election: Governor Umahi challenges opposition to a debate

Muhammadu Buhari

President Buhari’s convoy suffers blockage by ‘fanatical’ supporters, admirers in Jos

Police arrest wife, father of Nairobi hotel suicide bomber

Jimoh Ibrahim’s mother dies in fire incident

Borussia Dortmund’s Marco Reus insists he’s never going to Bayern Munich

Election: Primate Okoh admonishes politicians not to heat up the polity

President Muhammadu Buhari has commissioned the Baro Inland Water Port in Niger State.-4

President Buhari promises massive infrastructural development if re-elected

business

Guinness: No life lost in Aba centre fire

Pencom set to attract 60 million Nigerians to pension...

President Muhammadu Buhari has commissioned the Baro Inland Water Port in Niger State.-4

President Buhari commissions Baro inland water port

Central bank to establish national micro-finance bank

The UK pound has continued to fall following the Brexit. AFP

Pound hits seven-week high on eve of vital Brexit vote

Managing Director of Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr Fidet Okhiria

NRC disowns website selling Abuja-Kaduna route tickets

Nigeria targets 5,760 tonnes of yam export

Amazon France under fire for destroying unsold goods

nigeria

Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), says the agency will monitor campaign funds donated to political parties for the 2019 elections as well as donors’ identities.

EFCC chief Ibrahim Magu raises the alarm over name...

President Buhari’s convoy suffers blockage by ‘fanatical’ supporters, admirers in Jos

Jimoh Ibrahim’s mother dies in fire incident

Election: Primate Okoh admonishes politicians not to heat up the polity

Governor Ahmed calls for revival of reading culture

africa

nairobi attack

Police arrest wife, father of Nairobi hotel suicide bomber

Mourners protest after deaths in Sudan demos

Madagascar’s new president vows to fight corruption

Ethiopia readies ‘massive offensive’ on al-Shabaab in Somalia

Zimbabwe police erect road blocks to hunt protesters

world

Protesters flash the V-sign for “victory” during a rally in the Kurdish-majority city of Diyarbakir, south-eastern Turkey, on January 19 , 2019, in support of a jailed lawmaker who has been on hunger strike for more than two months. Leyla Guven, a pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker, launched a hunger strike on November 8 in the Diyarbakir prison where she is being held to pressure the Turkish government into allowing lawyers and family members to visit jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader, Abdullah Ocalan. Ilyas AKENGIN / AFP

Thousands rally in Turkey to back detained Kurdish MP...

President Macron’s debate put to test as ‘yellow vests’ stage tenth protest

Swine flu kills at least 40 in India’s Rajasthan state

US winter storm slows travel in Plains states, heads east

Donald Trump to make ‘major announcement’ on border wall, shutdown

sports

Marco Reus

Borussia Dortmund’s Marco Reus insists he’s never going to...

Marcelo Bielsa Leeds

More clubs pile pressure on officials over Leeds spying

David De Gea

Rio Ferdinand reveals he’d pick David de Gea over...

UEFA

30 football clubs swallow up nearly half of European revenue

AC Milan’s Argentine forward Gonzalo Higuain is seen on the pitch ahead of Supercoppa Italiana final between Juventus and AC Milan at the King Abdullah Sports City Stadium in Jeddah on January 16, 2019. (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE / AFP)

Chelsea close in on Gonzalo Higuain loan, Alvaro Morata set for...

Sadio Mane is pleased to have made his 100th Liverpool appearance in their 1-0 win over Brighton and Hove Albion on Saturday.

Sadio Mane ‘proud’ of Liverpool milestone in Brighton win

Minister pledges to revamp sports facilities

Henrikh Mkhitaryan back in Arsenal training before Manchester United FA Cup...

art

Nigeria’s first storey building records 13,609 visitors in 2018

‘The Favourite’ lands 12 Bafta Film Awards nominations

Golden Globe: Regina King determined to cast more women in films

Green Book, Bohemian Rhapsody win big at 2019 Golden Globes

Golden Globes Awards 2019: Full list of winners

film

Rihanna Ronald Fenty

Rihanna sues own father for doing business with their...

John Boyega to produce South African crime thriller

‘The Favourite’ lands 12 Bafta Film Awards nominations

Golden Globe: Regina King determined to cast more women in films

Green Book, Bohemian Rhapsody win big at 2019 Golden Globes

people

R. Kelly

Sony Music drops R. Kelly over alleged sexual abuse

Protests may mar documentary on Michael Jackson’s child sexual abuse

Rihanna to launch her own luxury fashion label

Rapper Cardi B blasts Donald Trump over US government shutdown

Miley Cyrus denies pregnancy rumours

technology

The National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) on Friday says Nigeria will join other countries of the world to experience total lunar eclipse on Monday.

Scientists: Nothing to fear about eclipse

hacking

Bulgaria extradites Russian hacker to US

Zimbabwe police fired teargas to disperse a crowd queuing for bread at a shopping centre near central Harare [Philimon Bulawayo-Reuters]

Zimbabwe blocks social media as crackdown intensifies

The National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) on Friday says Nigeria will join other countries of the world to experience total lunar eclipse on Monday.

NASRDA: Total lunar eclipse to take place on Monday

Hong Kong scientists report breakthrough antidote for viral diseases

hacking

Bulgaria extradites Russian hacker to US

Elizabeth Kperrun-Eremie

First Nigerian female for Africa engineering prize emerges

China's Long March-6 carrier rocket blasts off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on September 20, 2015. -VCG Photo

Argentina set to launch 90 satellites in China

opinion

Fredrick Nwabufo

Fredrick Nwabufo: Why money is not flowing like Ikogosi springs this...

Ogun politics: My encounter with violence

Atiku Abubakar

How Atiku Abubakar will lose February 16 election

Banditry in Nigeria: A brief history of a long war

President Muhammadu Buhari has lauded Nigerians for curbing excessive taste for foreign products, which has positioned the country for food self-sufficiency, and resulted into savings of over $21 billion.

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