Panic over the spread of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Nigeria has travelled as far as the National Assembly as…
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Traditional rulers in Bayelsa State have urged members of Islamist sect group, Boko Haram to sheathe their swords and embrace…
Leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, has again warned Ndigbo…
A Wuse Zone 2 Senior Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday sentenced a student, Mariam Nuhu, 26, to two months imprisonment for stealing…
President Goodluck Jonathan and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden have agreed that Nigeria and the United States would work together to…
Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra has revoked the Certificates of Occupancy of four buildings, including a church in Awkuzu, Oyi…
The Federal Ministry of Health has announced that a nurse, who treated Patrick Sawyer, the late Liberian infected with Ebola,…
The acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), Suleiman Abba on Tuesday visited the Chief of Army Staff and Chief of…
Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola yesterday gave tips to prospective voters on how to safeguard their ballot during Saturday’s…
The former Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, has urged the federal government to recruit more personnel into…
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, yesterday met with district heads from the 23 local government areas…
Human rights activist and Lagos lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), has said the leadership of the Nasarawa House of Assembly…
Governor of Rivers State and Chairman of Nigeria Governors’ Forum, Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, has described Nigeria as a nation…
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has approved the sum of N250 million to clear the backlog of foreign scholarship…
WASHINGTON, August 6, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Vice President Biden welcomed President Goodluck Jonathan of the Federal Republic of…
WASHINGTON, August 6, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — RemarksJohn KerrySecretary of StateTreaty RoomWashington, DCAugust 5, 2014MS. HYDE: Good afternoon. Mr.…
The Nasarawa State House of Assembly on Tuesday rejected the verdict of the panel set up by the state Chief…
ENUGU State Deputy GOVERNOR, SUNDAY ONYEBUCHI Chief Judge of Enugu State, Justice Innocent Umezulike has inaugurated a seven-man panel to…
The Nasarawa State seven-man panel set up to probe allegations of gross misconduct leveled against Governor Tanko Al-Makura, on Tuesday,…
Tola Ajayi, the 21-year-old student of Redeemers’ University, who killed his 60-year-old father, Charles Ajayi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria…