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13 Shares Share Tweet Share Email About 7.2 million Nigerians go to Facebook daily out of 16 million who have Facebook accounts, the social network said on Thursday. At the “social media week” event holding in Nigeria’s most populous city of Lagos, a representative of Facebook in Africa said an average user in Nigeria spends […]Read More

Nigeria’s Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, said on Friday that he was not sure whether Facebook, Twitter, Google and other new media multinationals that make millions of dollars from Nigeria pay taxes. Asked by SimonAtebaNews whether Facebook and others pay taxes, Saraki said he was not sure but will look into it. Saraki answered questions […]

3 Shares Share Tweet Share Email By Ayorinde Oluokun/thenewsnigeria.com.ng  Rev. Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, a.k.a Reverend King will be hanged for murder, the  Supreme Court affirmed today, ending a ten year legal war to uptown the verdict of a Lagos High court..King, General Overseer of the Christian Praying Assembly in Lagos, had challenged the judgment of the Lagos High […]Read More

6 Shares Share Tweet Share Email Nigeria’s Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, declared on Friday that the controversial social media bill being considered by the Senate is “dead on arrival”, adding that he now believes that the online media industry should be able to regulate itself. He said the controversial aspects of the ‘Frivolous Petition […]Read More

PDP Raises Alarm Over Fake Online Registration Portal – SimonAtebaNews 3 Shares Share Tweet Share Email The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) alerted the public on Friday of a “fake online portal, www.pdpmembership.org/register, claiming to be of the PDP and demanding Nigerians to register as members of the party through an electronically guided form”. The PDP said […]Read More

Nigeria’s anti-drug trafficking agency, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), said on Friday it had apprehended four suspected drug traffickers, including a Birmingham based cleaner with 6.822kg of narcotics worth N61 million. The arrests and drug seizures took place at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, spokesman Mitchell Ofoyeju said in a statement. The […]Read More

The Former National Security Adviser, Colonel Sambo Mohamed Dasuki opened up at Abuja High Court alleging that President Muhammadu Buhari was behind his unlawful arrest and detention without trial since December 29, 2015. Dasuki who spoke through his counsel, Mr Joseph Daudu (SAN), claimed that President Buhari instigated his detention unjustly against the bail granted […]

A Nigerian registered helicopter with number 5N-BQH owned by a yet to be named politician from the Niger Delta crashed in Benin Republic on Thursday, but no life was lost in the incident. The Nation learnt that the helicopter, an airworthiness aircraft meant for private use, was contracted for commercial purposes by a presidential candidate […]

#BokoHaram Has Been Defeated But Expect More Bombings, Says Nigeria’s Information Minister – SimonAtebaNews 9 Shares Share Tweet Share Email Nigeria’s minister of information, Mr. Lai Mohammed, declared again on Friday that Boko Haram has been defeated, but Nigerians must expect more bombings from the terrorists who are venting their last rage. He said Boko […]

The Forces That Brought The Naira Back From The Dead:Something strange is happening to the naira and people are wondering why. From as high as N400 last Friday it has dropped to as low as N320. Flash back to just two weeks ago, it depreciated from N310 to N410. This volatility is unprecedented and only […]

Oando Energy Resources Inc. (“OER” or the “Company “) (TSX: OER) has announced that at a special meeting of its shareholders held today, its shareholders overwhelmingly approved the previously announced plan of arrangement (the “Plan of Arrangement”) with Oando PLC and Oando E&P Holdings Limited (the “Purchaser”), which will culminate in the Purchaser acquiring all of […]Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari has sanctioned that a national economic conference be convened to pull the country together towards offering solutions to the current economic challenges facing the country. According to a top government official who declined to be identified, the economic conference has tentatively been fixed for March 10 and 11. He said the idea […]