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Nigerian Bottling Company Limited (NBC), a member of Coca-Cola Hellenic Group and bottler for non-alcoholic beverage giant Coca-Cola, has expressed commitment and readiness to achieve its projected business plan for 2019, as it…

Manchester United defender Ashley Young has signed a new one-year contract extension, the club has announced on Monday afternoon. The 33-year-old’s original deal was due to expire at the end of the current season, but he will…

The driver of an armoured cash delivery van disappeared outside Paris early on Monday along with an estimated one million euros, police sources told AFP. The 28-year-old man had stopped in front of a Western Union office at…

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday at the Ogun State All Progressives Congress presidential rally held in Abeokuta, escaped being hit by stones as hoodlums pelted the National Chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomole, with stones. …

It is more trouble for the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, as the National Judicial Council, NJC, on Monday, ordered him to respond to a fresh petition the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,…

Festus Keyamo, spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari reelection campaign, says the United States has displayed its double standard for the world to see. Keyamo said this in reaction to a statement credited to Stuart Symington,…

Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Hadiza Bala Usman recently visited the corportae headquarters of Vanguard Media Ltd. publishers of Vanguard Newspaper. She spoke on the problematic Apapa traffic, why the…

`Buhari We Love (BWL),’ a support group, has staged a beach party to appeal to Nigerians to vote for President Muhammadu Buhari in the Feb. 16 presidential election. The group said that the return of President Buhari would usher…

A notorious crime boss who was once Australia’s most wanted man has been stabbed in prison, reports said Monday, months after revelations his lawyer was a police informant cast doubt on his criminal convictions. Tony Mokbel, who…

Britain’s economy grew at the slowest pace in six years in 2018 with near-flat output in the final quarter, data showed Monday, as Brexit uncertainty and weaker global growth bites. Gross domestic product growth stood at 1.4 per…

No less than N8.3 billion has been expended by the Federal Government for rehabilitation of the 104-kilometre Funtua Road in Katsina State to Gusau Capital of Zamfara State. The project which was awarded in 2009 had problems of…

Information obtained by the police from the Kankara General Hospital, Katsina State, led to the arrest of a suspected rapist, whose manhood was allegedly severed by his victim. The suspect, Bishir Yau, of Yargase village, was…

Anthony Martial has the talent to reach Cristiano Ronaldo’s level if he puts his mind to it, according to Manchester United caretaker boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Martial had looked set to leave the club in the summer after…

The police in Enugu State have arrested a 55 years old woman, Edith Ewulu, for allegedly buying a five years old child stolen from her parents. It was learnt that the woman, who resides in Enugu State, bought the baby from one Chioma who…

Fitness Expert and Toke Makinwa’s ex, Maje Ayida has found love again. After divorcing Toke Makinwa, getting a side chic pregnant while still married to her, and having a son from a woman named Crystal, Maje is in love again. His…

Twenty-three elders in Kwara led by Dr. Dr Hezekiah Oyedepo have endorsed President Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of APC.They also resolved to vote for governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APV) in…

Diezani Alison Madueke, former Minister of Petroleum, was on Monday spotted trekking on the streets of London. Tweeting via @osquare78, the Nigerian who spotted Diezani said he was going to “ask her about our yams”, but she…

The Federal Government has begun rehabilitation, reconstruction and expansion works on the Agbara-Seme Border section of Lagos-Badagry Expressway, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A NAN correspondent who, on Sunday,…

Few days to the presidential election, no fewer than 145 Support Groups of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP Presidential candidate,  Atiku Abubakar, on Sunday, declared their willingness to work for the re-election of President…

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) has completed another new 2x40MVA 132/33kV transmission substation project in Yauri, Kebbi State. The exercise is coming 11 years after the project was awarded to a contractor in…

Former Secretary General of Nigeria Football Federation, Taiwo Ogunjobi, is dead. This sad news was confirmed by his Special adviser and media aide, Tunde Shamsudeen in an interview with Brila.net’s Tony Bekederemo on Monday…

The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, on Monday charged Nigerian youths to vote massively in the forthcoming elections. MURIC explained that the upcoming elections was “watershed” in the history of Nigeria, adding that it avails…

Former Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel believes the club is still struggling to replace his generation of players. The Nigerian star, who is currently on the books of English second-tier club Middlesbrough, believes the Blues…

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna State have protested against the recent arrest of its Campaign Director Media Committee of the Isa Ashiru Gubernatorial Campaign Team, Mr Ben Bako, by security operatives for undisclosed…