The Bayelsa Police Command on Saturday in Yenagoa said rumour of a bomb scare making the rounds in the state capital…
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Residents of PDP Road in the Yenizue-Gene suburb of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital, were, yesterday, thrown into panic following a…
The presidency and Adamawa State Governor Murtala Nyako have continued trading words over terror attacks in the state and the…
Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, Saturday, reiterated the commitment of the Sultanate Council to the education of the…
About 77 people lost their lives during the crises between some Fulani herdsmen and the indigenous people of Wukari, Taraba…
The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has urged Nigerians, particularly Christians and women, to pray for the peace and economic…
Activities in Abuja were low key on Saturday as the Easter holidays and celebrations continued, the News Agency of Nigeria…
A Nigerien in possession of over 1,000 passport photographs of young boys have been arrested by men of the Ogun…
LONDON, United-Kingdom, April 19, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Foreign Secretary William Hague welcomes peaceful vote and congratulates the winner…
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, on Thursday delivered medical consumables worth millions of naira to victims of Abuja bomb…
A religious organisation, Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has accused security agencies in the country of being biased in the campaign…
A member of the Board of Trustees of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and proprietor of Rogenny Tourist Village Oba in Anambra…
DR. SAM AMADI The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has directed the Electricity Distribution Companies (Discos) to with immediate effect,…
Senate President, David Mark; his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu; and the Senator representing Kwara Central Senatorial District, Senator Bukola Saraki have…
Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram is still holding 85 girls it abducted from a raid on a secondary school in northeastern Borno state this week, although the other 44 were free, the state government said on Saturday. Monday’s mass abduction…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday promised that despite the “evil machinations” of terrorists, criminals and their collaborators, his administration will…
The Osun State chapter of All Progressives Congress has rejected the war intention of the Vice President, Namadi Sambo, who…
Over 100 people have been killed in a cattle raid in South Sudan’s Warrap state, a local information minister told UN radio, the latest atrocity in the war-torn nation. “We lost about 28 civilians” in a remote cattle herders’ camp in the remote northern…
Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for Monday’s cowardly attack on a motor park in Nyanya, a suburb of Abuja, which…
Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi has said he will start teaching at the state-owned university in October this year .…