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ABUJA (Ministry of Water Resources Report) The Nigerian Government has called on the Governors of the eight benefiting States of…

From Federal Ministry of Aviation. The Federal Ministry of Aviation’s spokesman, Mr. Hastings Ojeme has refuted a story on page…

ABUJA (Ministry of Women Affairs Report) – As Nigeria joins the rest of the World to celebrate the 2014 International…

The Nigerian Navy Forward Operating Base (FOB), Bonny Naval base, Port Harcourt on Tuesday May 12, 2014 handed over 11…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC on Tuesday May 13, 2014 arraigned Daniel Solomon and Adams Paul before Justice…

The Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit, NFIU has received special commendation for its commitment to the fight against money laundering and…

A Federal High Court sitting in Yenegoa, Balyesa State has convicted three Indian nationals, Sailesh Kumar Singh, (the Captain of…

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Ayo Fayose has described the volte face by Governor Kayode Fayemi on the conduct…

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 15, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — A group of African and UN human rights experts* today called…

NEW YORK, May 15, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Juba from Abu Dhabi…

LONDON, United-Kingdom, May 15, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Egyptian Foreign Minister meets Foreign Secretary William Hague and Minister of…

The Borno State Government has released the list of 23 more students of Government Secondary School, Chibok, whose identities were…

The newly established 7 Division of the Nigerian Army is to institute a military board of inquiry into the remote…

The Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese, Most Rev. Paulinus Ezeokafor, has urged the Federal Government not to succumb to the…

Six women were, yesterday, arraigned before a Lokoja Chief Magistrate Court over their alleged involvement in the kidnap of two…

WASHINGTON, May 15, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — In late 2012, armed groups began a rebellion that sparked a period…

WASHINGTON, May 15, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — EXECUTIVE ORDERBLOCKING PROPERTY OF CERTAIN PERSONS CONTRIBUTINGTO THE CONFLICT IN THE Central…

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has ruled out the release of Boko Haram fighters in exchange for the freedom of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the militants a month ago. Britain’s Africa minister Mark Simmonds, in Nigeria for talks about…

The US military is flying surveillance drones as well as manned aircraft over Nigeria to help the search for more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist extremists, the Pentagon said Wednesday. However, the data is not yet being shared with the…

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s bid to extend an ineffective year-long state of emergency in the northeast has exposed him as an out-of-touch leader with no credible plan to end a brutal Islamist conflict, experts said. Few dispute the severity…