Nigeria’s Boko Haram : Maiduguri ‘preachers kill dozens’ Jun 5, 2014 Suspected Boko Haram militants have launched an attack on a village near the north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, killing about 45 people. The attackers told villagers…
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Hundreds of people are feared dead in a suspected Boko Haram attack on four villages in northeast Nigeria, in the latest upsurge in violence claiming increasing numbers of civilian lives. Some community leaders put the death toll from the Tuesday attacks…
Ruth Bitrus wailed uncontrollably and fell to the floor as she recounted the pain of separation from her two daughters, kidnapped nearly two months ago by Boko Haram militants. “I fasted for 15 days, living only on water,” she said, sobbing profusely…
Ekiti State First Lady, Erelu Bisi Fayemi on Thursday took her husband’s re-election campaign to the state-owned University Teaching Hospital,…
Former Benue State Governor and Senate Minority Leader, Senator George Akume (APC Benue North West), on Thursday faulted the proposal…
The group of five governors, who defected from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to All Progressives Congress, APC, have described…
L-R: THE CHAIRMAN, PDP BOARD OF TRUSTEES, CHIEF TONY ANENIH; THE PARTY’S National CHAIRMAN, ADAMU MUAZU; President GOODLUCK JONATHAN, VICE…
Some Nigerian women now sell their private parts, wombs, ovaries and human eggs as commodities in the global bio‑technology market,…
An explosion. yesterday rocked the private residence of Gombe State Governor, Alhaji Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo at Government Reservation Area (GRA),…
Members of the Pro-Biafra group, Biafra Zionists Federation (BZF), led by Benjamin Onwuka, who allegedly attacked the Government House, Enugu…
A prominent Yoruba leader, Alhaji Ganiyu Akanbi Bello has been found dead at his residence located at Race course general…
A Nigerian man who allegedly conned an Australian pensioner out of $90,000 in an online dating scam has appeared in…
The Nigerian Government has decried the lack of universally acceptable legally binding instrument to regulate the transfer of arms and…
Report from Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)’s Secretary-General, Mr. Iyad Ameen Madani has described the…
Report from Ministry of Police Affairs. Minister of Police Affairs, Abdul Jelili Adesiyan has said that it is unfair to…
President Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday, forwarded the name of former Kano State governor, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, and three other nominees…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday appointed Prof. Rufa’i Alkali as his Special Adviser on Political Affairs more than a month…
The member representing Oyo South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Olufemi Lanlehin, has dumped the All Progressives Congress.…
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), on Wednesday, bemoaned non-passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), saying that Nigeria was loosing…
Kano State Police Commissioner Adenrele Shinaba, Thursday told journalists that men of the state police command have arrested some of…