Nigeria

The Federal Government has announced they will no longer allow the remains of dead Nigerians, especially from countries battling Ebola virus, from being brought into the country for burial. Director General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Professor Abdulsalami Nasidi, said this on Friday in Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos. Nasidi said: �The ...

Ghana has officially banned flights from 4 West African countries; Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria, citing concerns about the rapid spread of the Ebola virus, which has claimed several lives. Charles Asare,�Managing Director of the Ghana Airport Company, said the measure was part of a set of emergency management ...

Lagos State Government on Monday said 59 people in the state came in contact with the 40-year-old Liberian who died of Ebola virus in Lagos. The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, who made this known in�� Ikeja, explained that the number consisted of 44 health care workers�� and 15 ...

Mr. Patrick Sawyer, a WASH consultant at the Ministry of Finance, who had been quarantined since arriving Lagos, Nigeria on Sunday, July 20, 2014 with symptoms of the Ebola virus has died. A Liberian government official, speaking on condition of anonymity said the news of Sawyer’s death was relayed to ...

The Lagos State Government yesterday confirmed a possible case of Ebola Virus, which is been currently investigated while treatment is on for the 40 year old Liberian, who is now a suspect, and a possible 30 others who may have had contact with him. The Special Adviser to the Lagos ...

FIFA has lifted the ban it placed on Nigeria on July 9th after a high court sitting in Jos sacked the President of the Nigerian Football Federation, NFF, Aminu Maigari and other board members. FIFA had frowned at the court ruling, stating that the move was a government interference in ...

Dear Mikel, I’ve just been looking at you.. I’ve just sat down in this my corner and I’ve been looking at you and the rubbish that you played in this World Cup. God knows if I had told you what was on my mind before now, FIFA would have banned ...

Pakistani rights activist Malala Yousafzai, who survived after being shot in the head by the Taliban for campaigning for girls’ education, pledged yesterday to help free the 219 schoolgirls being held by Boko Haram since April 15. Malala spoke in Abuja when she met with some parents of the schoolgirls. ...

Nigeria made cars are ready, according to Executive Director/Chief Executive of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Mr Olusegun Awolowo, he even posed beside his own, to announce its readiness to Nigerians. The SUV was manufactured by Innoson.�  

A four-seater plane flying from Nigeria to Gabon via Cameroon has gone missing. The plane, owned by the U.S. company Global Aviation, took off from Kano at 1800 hours yesterday en route Libreville in Gabon, where it was scheduled to arrive at 2300 hours, after a‎ stopover in Douala, Cameroon. ...

The Nigerian goalie has been rated as the best goalkeeper so far at the ongoing Brazil 2014 World Cup. He has so far made 8 precious saves to keep the hopes of 160 million Nigerians alive at the World Cup. He beat Mexico’s Ochoa to the top spot as he ...

The Nigerian Oscars Selection Committee has called for the submission of movies for possible inclusion in the Best Foreign Language category of the Academy Awards aka The Oscars. The committee says the opportunity is open to Nigerian film makers whose films relate to the country and are predominantly in a ...

Most teams at the World cup ban sex totally because they believe it will affect the performance of players while others approve of it because they feel it relaxes the players..Others however, approve with conditions..Nigeria approves of sex at the world cup only if it involves the wives of the ...

A 19-year old Nigerian teenager, Aisha Eniola who resides in the United Kingdom has emerged the youngest councillor in UK. Taking after her father who was once a councillor, Eniola who represents the Harlesden Ward, won the residents of the ward over with her intelligence which showed through during the ...

Henry Chukwuma Okoroji,�a�Nigerian match fixer has been indicted in a match fixing scam after he was�caught on camera telling an�undercover UK Sun Newspaper reporter, Mahzher Mahmood,�he could arrange a yellow card during the World Cup games for more than 41,000pounds and a penalty for 81,000pounds. Daily Mail�reports that Okoroji spoke ...

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday as part of activities to celebrate the country’s Democracy Day ‘drove’ a Made-in-Nigeria car by Nissan. In a series of tweets shared by the Presidential Spokesman, Reuben Abati (@abati1990), President Goodluck Jonathan and Vice-President, Nnamdi Sambo were presented with the key of one of the Made-in-Nigeria ...

The pretty gal above, Naizi, studying in South Africa, was murdered by her Zimbabwean boo on Saturday morning.� According to her friends who sent in this story,� “She has been dating the Zimbabwean guy for a while but she got tired cos it was an abusive relationship, he would hit ...

A Nigerian guy has listed annoying things Nigerian girls do Nigerian women too dey form. Yes, there are certain things men do that really bother women, but ladies, here’s what you people do that really annoys us: 1. When you tell us what qualities you like in a man, but ...

A�committee at the on-going National Conference is suggesting for all unemployed graduates in Nigeria to earn a monthly allowance equivalent to the allowance of members of the National Youth Service Corps, which is N19,800. Punch reports that the conference’s Committee on Law, Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Reform made the ...

Boko Haram have reportedly bombed the sole bridge linking Borno State, Nigeria & Cameroun. The small bridge which is located at the border town of Gamboru Ngala, was bombed today, cutting off some residents of the area from their families who live in Cameroon. At least 30 people were killed ...