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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…

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…

Security has been stepped up in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State following threats of attack by Boko Haram on major institutions,…

Three Indians have been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by a Federal High Court sitting in Yenegoa, Bayelsa State over…

A woman, Hajiya Maimuna Danja, died on Wednesday on her way to Katsina to pray for the release of the…

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi; flanked by his wife, Erelu Bisi Fayemi (left); and deputy Governor, Prof. Modupe Adelabu,…

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has flagged off the construction of Ikere-Ondo State boundary dualization project aimed at ameliorating…

Members of the Correspondents’ Chapel, Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Nasarawa State Council, on Tuesday resolved to boycott all police…

Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Rockland Development Limited for the construction of 1,000 housing units for workers…

ABUJA (Nigerian National Merit Award Report) – The Governing Board of the Nigerian National Merit Award (NNMA) has on Tuesday…

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan faces an uncertain political future after attracting a torrent of criticism over his handling of the mass abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls by Boko Haram extremists. Jonathan was already on the back foot even…

The US military is flying surveillance drones as well as manned aircraft over Nigeria to help in the search for more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist extremists, the Pentagon said Wednesday. The United States has deployed the robotic Global…

The Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of zone 10, Mr Bala Hassan has warned police personnel in the zone…

Leader of the Boko Haram sect, Abubakar Shekau has made another video appearance, his second in less than 72 hours,…

Northern Delegates at the ongoing National Conference have asked the Federal Government to do everything within its powers to secure…