The Nigerian military on Friday admitted that most of the 129 girls abducted by Boko Haram Islamists from their school in the country’s restive northeast remained missing. The military had claimed on Wednesday that all but eight of the 129 girls snatched…
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The membership of Kano State Executive Council was depleted on Thursday following the resignation of the Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr…
SEN. EMMANUEL BWACHA The senator representing Taraba South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha, on Thursday traced…
Delegates representing Civil Society Organisations at the ongoing National Conference in Abuja on Thursday protested the composition of the 20…
The leadership of the 20 standing committees of the National Conference has been released with Ibrahim Coomasie, Florence Ita-Giwa, Bola…
Sequel to media reports that its governors shunned a security meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa on…
The Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has lambasted politicians, who introduced the no-go area clause…
Governor of Edo State during the aborted Third Republic, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, yesterday, described the allegation of embezzlement of campaign…
As part of efforts to boost small and medium scale enterprises in the state, the government of Bayelsa state has…
WASHINGTON, April 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Funding Opportunity AnnouncementBureau of Population, Refugees, and MigrationApril 16, 2014Funding Opportunity Number:…
The National Emergency Management Agency on Thursday released a list of 126 victims admitted in various hospitals in the Federal…
FILE PHOTO For the third time in a week, a mob in Ilorin, Kwara State lynched a suspected female kidnapper…
Alhaji Ibrahim Jega, the Executive Secretary, National Mosque Management Board, Abuja, said on Thursday that the National Mosque was highly…
The Rivers State Police Command has doused tension over a suspected bomb that sent traders and commuters in Port Harcourt,…
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a Nigerien, Mamodu Bashir Ibrahim, for having carnal knowledge of a woman and…
17 April 2014 – Amid escalating violence in northern and central South Sudan, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned…
17 April 2014 – The United Nations today voiced concern over the arrest and detention of over 1,000 refugees and…
16 April 2014 – A senior United Nations official today condemned the attack against the chief warden of Virunga National…
16 April 2014 – Spiraling violence has forced an increasing number of civilians in South Sudan’s oil-rich Unity state are…
16 April 2014 – United Nations humanitarian agencies and their partners today launched a joint appeal to donors to fund…