The new Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, will tomorrow unveil the new strategies to be…
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OTTAWA, Canada, June 6, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — “Canada condemns in the strongest terms today’s terrorist attack in northeastern…
LONDON, United-Kingdom, June 5, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Nigerian Foreign Minister to attend meeting with neighbouring countries in London…
BERLIN, Germany, June 5, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier issued the following statement in light of…
ABUJA, Nigeria, June 5, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The propensity for Boko Haram’s violence to be motivated by revenge,…
NEW YORK, June 5, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Antonio…
L-R: Chair of Governing Board, College of Health Technology, Ijero-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Chief Monisola Oloro; Wife of the Governor, Erelu…
Justice Dije Abdu Aboki of the Kano State High Court on June 5, 2014, convicted and sentenced Bright Evobai and…
The Central Bank of Nigeria on Thursday brought to the front burner the issue of youth unemployment in the country…
Human rights activist, Chief Femi Falana, SAN, has written to the Inspector General of Police, Muhammad Abubakar, asking him to…
Nigeria will no longer tolerate the ceding of any part of its territory to another country, Senate President David Mark…
The Rivers State Police Command has denied rumours making the rounds that human heads were needed by the people of…
Special Forces of the Nigerian Army Unit in Gwoza, Borno State, have arrested a 13-year-old girl for spying on the…
The reign of terror by Boko Haram militants in northern Nigeria is forcing 800 people to flee every day and has claimed over 3,000 lives in the last year, a report showed on Thursday. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said that a total…
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…
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…