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APC members and passers by scampering for safety from rampaging policemen at the Scene of the attack in ijigbo area,…

4 June 2014 – The United Nations humanitarian chief today called for $60 million for the next three months to…

4 June 2014 – Citing aerial attacks, use of heavy weaponry and civilian casualties in Benghazi and elsewhere in eastern…

4 June 2014 – Thousands of women and children fleeing the Central African Republic (CAR) for Cameroon arrive in a…

Follow @{0}Malnutrition is high among the refugeesGBITI, 6 June 2014 (IRIN) – More than 80,000 Central Africans have fled the…

Follow @{0}Making room for the neighboursLOLO, 3 June 2014 (IRIN) – New open-air butcheries and stalls now flank the unsealed…

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has described the death of former Information Minister Prof Dora Akunyili as devastating. The…

Governor Kayode John Fayemi is seeking another term in office to serve the people of Ekiti State on the platform…

Protests have erupted in Kano over the choice of former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the…

The Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade, has confirmed that a bomb exploded at a Nigerian Army barracks in…

The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has withdrawn the statement it released earlier congratulating Alhaji Sanusi Ado…

The Kano State government have announced former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, as the new…

It is with shock that the management and staff of the Federal Ministry of Information received the news of the…

Against the backdrop of the recent approval for self-accounting status for the Nigeria Police Force by President Goodluck Jonathan, the…

(Report from Ministry of Foreign Affairs) The Executive Secretary of Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), Dr. Oluwole Oluleye has commended…

Sanusi Ado Bayero, son of Alhaji Ado Bayero, the deceased Emir of Kano has been chosen to become the next…

Bayelsa State Governor, Hon Seriake Dickson has expressed deep shock, regret and disappointment over the untimely death of Nigeria’s one…

Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State on Thursday advocated greater cooperation among countries of the Commonwealth to address major challenges…

A Nigerian newspaper said that it was prevented from distributing thousands of copies of its Saturday edition by soldiers, just days after it ran a story alleging corruption among army generals. The Weekly Trust, a national weekly newspaper based in…

Tributes have flooded the media as news of the death of former Information Minister, Dora Akunyili hit the airwaves after…