Nigeria

South Africa based Telecommunications company, MTN Group, formerly M-Cell which has grown to be a dominant force in Nigeria has just announced that more than five million Nigerian subscribers have stopped using their MTN lines. The company recently publicly declared a very low increase in subscriber growth and they blamed ...

SaharaReporters can authoritatively reveal the 21-member President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministerial nominees submitted to the National Assembly yesterday as follows: Ministers nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari 1.Dr. Chris Ngige (Anambra) 2. Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti) 3. Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers) 4. Babatunde Fashola (Lagos) 5. Abdurrahman Dambazau (rtd) (Kano) 6. Aisha AlHassan (Taraba) ...

National Universities Commission, NUC, Tuesday, said there are no 54 illegal universities operating in Nigeria. Briefing journalists in Abuja, on an alleged existence of illegal universities in Nigeria,the Director Information and Public Relations, Ibrahim Yakassai said the Commission had earlier discovered over 50 unlicensed Universities operating in different parts of ...

Sacked Super Eagles Coach, Stephen Keshi warned Nigerians to leave him alone so as to spend quality time with his family in the United States. According to Vanguard, Keshi said: �Please, I want Nigerians to leave me alone and allow me spend time with my family. The only thing on ...

A Malaysian court has ordered the detention of five Nigerian students in Malysia for their alleged involvement in a N125.2m (RM2.4 million) internet fraud in Selangor & Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. According to local media reports, the 5 Nigerian students who are between the ages of 20 and 30 are undergraduates ...

According to BBC, the Nigerian Army’s spokesperson Colonel Sani Usman says the Nigerian military’s command center has now been relocated to Borno state as directed by President Buhari in his inaugural speech. �The team has already commenced work in earnest,” Col Usman said in a statement released today. The statement ...

According to PUNCH, the Nigerian states listed below are not owing their workers. Adamawa Anambra Bayelsa Borno Delta Edo FCT Gombe Kaduna Kwara Lagos Nasarawa Niger Sokoto Taraba

Prominent dancehall artiste in Nigeria Ketchup is in South Africa and pictures of him acting all cosy and hanging out with ex Big Brother Africa contestant Mirah Miguel. The model shared a selfie of her Ketchup on her Instagram account. Four days later she shared another selfie of her with ...

Three of them contested on the platform of Labor party while one contested on the platform of the Tories flag. We have got their details below: Chuka Umunna: No stranger to the UK Parliament, Umunna has served as a Member of Parliament for Streatham under the Labour Party since 2010. ...

Do you agree with this ranking? Nigerian men have been named the 8th Sexiest Men in the World, according to a survey conducted using a poll of 66,000 American women who use MissTravel.com. Irish men topped the sexiest list with 7,862 votes while Nigerian men ranked 8th with 721 votes. ...

58 year old Nigerian man, Christopher Omigie, who is a self acclaimed witch doctor has been sentenced to 14 years in a US federal prison for providing drug traffickers with magical and “supernatural” protection. At a court hearing yesterday April 30th, prosecutors told the presiding judge, Judge Marcia Crone, that ...

APC has released a statement saying all accredited media, including AIT, are free to cover President elect, Buhari The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that all accredited media organizations in the country, including the African Independent Television (AIT), are free to cover the activities of the President-elect, Gen. Muhammadu ...

Former President Obasanjo is claiming other African leaders were happy that President lost the 2015 presidential election. According to Punch, Obasanjo said this during his speech at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington DC yesterday… I have visited six countries since the election, they are as happy about ...

The Society for Family Health says more than 3.2 million Nigerians are still living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Bright Ekweremadu, the Managing Director of the society, said this on Thursday in Abuja at a forum to mark the end of Enhancing Nigeria’s Response (ENR) to HIV and AIDS ...

Former Anambra state Governor, Dr Peter Obi paid a solidarity visit to the Nigerian community in South Africa yesterday April 20th following the recent strings of xenophobic attacks in the country. Collated records by the Nigerian community shows that 50 Nigerians have so far lost their businesses and valuables since ...

MTN Nigeria says about 6,000 Nigerians will lose their jobs if MTN is made to leave Nigeria. Head of Communications MTN, Mr Wale Goodluck said this while reacting to calls by a protest group in Edo state yesterday that the telecommunications offices in Nigeria will be shut and their installations ...

The Federal government today said it will consider the option of evacuating Nigerians who are willing to come back home if the xenophobic attacks in South Africa worsens. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aminu Wali said this while speaking to newsmen in Abuja today April 16th “If it gets worse ...

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has denied that its presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, promised to make the naira equal to the dollar. Director, Policies and Strategy of the APC campaign group, Bolaji Abdullahi, made the clarification on Tuesday at the Nigeria Political Parties Discussion Series (NPPDS) in Abuja. He said ...

Contrary to reports that she is trying to flee the country to avoid being probed by Buhari’s administration,Petroleum Minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, said Tuesday night, she was not seeking asylum in any part of the world, as claimed.. According to Vanguard,speaking through the Group Public Affairs General Manager of the ...

  Tuedon Omatsola Morgan, a married mother of four, has made history as the first Nigerian to set foot on the North pole. The 42 year old marathon runner, who has finished marathons on seven continents twice, achieved this feat recently. She placed the Nigerian flag on the North Pole, ...