The Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) has declared the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of Saturday’s local government…
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The Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih, said on Sunday that President Goodluck…
Get ready Africa (and the United States) because Abubakar Shekau, the still-somewhat-shadowy, thirty-something leader of Bobo Haram, the Islamic terrorist group that kidnapped 300 Nigerian schoolgirls, has a role model: the late and unlamented Osama…
Video News by NewsLook Nigeria and four neighboring countries vowed to wage “war” against Boko Haram at a security meeting with U.S. and European Union officials in Paris.
Four people were killed, including a young girl, in a suicide car bomb attack in the north Nigerian city of Kano, the city’s police commissioner said. “At about 2200 (2100 GMT), we heard an explosion and immediately mobilised to the scene where we discovered…
The 10 Chinese workers abducted by Boko Haram gunmen in Cameroon have most likely been taken back across the border to the Nigerian Islamist group’s strongholds, a police official said Sunday. “We are almost certain that the 10 Chinese have been kidnapped…
The Inspector-General of Police, IGP MD Abubakar has ordered the strengthening of security in all boarding schools in and around…
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has frowned at the presence of a large number of tourists, journalists and adventurers of diverse…
Former UK Prime Minister and UN Special Envoy on Education, Mr. Gordon Brown, has announced that one million people have…
Following the security summit hosted by France at the weekend to stem the activities of the terror group, Boko Haram,…
No fewer than 40 villagers were killed and several others injured on Saturday evening in Dalwa-Masuba village of Damboa local…
A suspected car bomb ripped through a crowded entertainment spot in the north Nigerian city of Kano on Sunday, witnesses…
About ten persons were feared dead in the early hours of yesterday in a petrol fire explosion at a creek…
Fire yesterday razed about 120 shops in the popular Daleko market in Mushin Local Government Area of Lagos State, destroying…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, administering the Polio Vaccine to a child, during the Flag-off Ceremony of the May…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi; acknowledging cheers from Teachers, during a Teachers’ Sensitization on World Bank Project of the…
16 May 2014 – The United Nations human rights office today voiced deep concern about the situation of Meriam Ibrahim,…
15 May 2014 – In the wake of the second wave of mass death sentences handed down in Egypt last…
15 May 2014 – The United Nations is committed to supporting Nigeria’s efforts to ensure the release of the schoolgirls…
15 May 2014 – The barbaric murder of a woman with albinism in Tanzania has prompted the United Nations human…