Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has watched with very keen interest a video clip shown on the BBC world…
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The Chargé d’Affaires in the Embassy of the United States of America in Cameroon, Gregory D. Thome, has ruled out…
The head of the Boko Haram insurgents — Abubakar Shekau shocked the world this morning when he released another video…
The National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) has disclosed that satellite images from the Nigeria SatX and Sat 2…
Dozens of women’s rights activists took to the streets of the Senegalese capital Dakar on Monday to denounce the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria by Islamist militants. Members of 20 organisations who had come together near the Nigerian…
French President Francois Hollande said Monday he had invited US and British officials to attend a Paris summit this weekend focusing on the threat from Islamist sect Boko Haram, which has abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria. “I asked the…
ABUJA (Youth Development Ministry Report) – The Minister of Youth Development, Boni Haruna has called for the establishment of a…
Amnesty International has been faulted by the Military authority for stating that the Military was informed of the impending attack…
ABUJA (National Planning Commission Report) – The reform process of the Nigeria public service has received a boost with the…
The governor of Nigeria’s Borno state says he has information on the whereabouts of about 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist…
Boko Haram released a new video on Monday claiming to show the missing Nigerian schoolgirls and alleging the teenagers had converted to Islam and would not be released until all militant prisoners were freed. The group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, speaks…
Nigeria on Monday rejected conditions set out by Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau for the release of more than 200 schoolgirls held hostage by the Islamists. Asked if the government would reject the suggestion mentioned by Shekau in a new video that…
Report from Office of The Head of The Civil Service of the Federation. About twenty-six- thousand officers in the…
Frustration and despair over the fate of hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamic extremists in northern Nigeria is forcing families to organize the rescue themselves. Mother of one of the girls, asking to remain unidentified out of fear of causing…
Israel on Sunday joined the international effort to trace more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militants in Nigeria but Washington said US troops would stay out of any rescue mission. Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan spoke to Israeli…
Originally published on Gas2. Segun Oyeyiola’s parents were always telling him, “you better find something better to do. Your siblings have completed their first degrees and rather than you do some stupid things.” Those “stupid things”, in…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday offered to help Nigeria search for hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped by extremist Islamist group Boko Haram, an offer that was accepted. A statement from the premier’s office said that Netanyahu, currently…
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby warned Sunday of the difficulties of negotiating with an “utterly merciless” group like Boko Haram, but called for active contact with the Nigerian Islamists over their abduction of scores of schoolgirls. Welby…
French President Francois Hollande called Sunday for African leaders to hold a summit in Paris on security in west Africa focusing on the Islamist sect Boko Haram who have abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria. “I suggested, with Nigerian President…
The United States has no plans to send troops to Nigeria to help recover hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram, US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in an interview broadcast on Sunday. “There’s no intention, at this point, to (put) American…