The Gombe State Government said it would use the Children’s Day celebration to pray for the release of the abducted…
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The Federal Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Japanese Government for $85 million dollars (N1.38 billion)…
Former Governor of Kebbi State, Alhaji Adamu Aliero, has rejected the claims in some quarters that northern states governors and…
The Sultan of Sokoto and President of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar has condemned the…
Follow @{0}Children at the open-air informal school set up by the displaced in Doyaba campDOYABA/SIDDHO/N’DJAMENA, 26 May 2014 (IRIN) -…
Abuja (Ministry of Foreign Affairs Report) – The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aminu Wali has called on the international community,…
PARIS, France, May 26, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — After the CTIC incubator in Senegal and the Ebène project in…
OSLO, Norway, May 26, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Minister of Foreign Affairs Børge Brende condemns the attack on the…
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 26, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Fifty people detained in connection with recent clashes in Kidal have…
Abuja (Vice President’s Office Report) – Nigeria’s Vice President, Mohammed Namadi Sambo has urged Nigerians, particularly the Muslim Ummah to…
ABUJA (National Planning Commission Report) The Supervising Minister/Deputy Chairman of the National Planning Commission, Bashir Yuguda has formally launched the…
Report from Vice President’s Office. Vice President Namadi Sambo has urged Nigerians, particularly the Muslim Ummah to pray fervently for…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) continues to contend with a ‘leadership tussle’ in the build- up to the 2015 general…
Boko Haram is probably beyond the reach of global sanctions but attempts to curb the Nigerian Islamists’ reign of terror is an indication of growing international commitment, analysts said. The UN Security Council this week designated the extremist…
At least 24 people were killed on Sunday when Boko Haram gunmen raided a village in northeast Nigeria, where the Islamists have stepped up deadly attacks on villages in recent months, residents told AFP. Dozens of motorcycle-riding gunmen stormed Kamuya…
The abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria last month was “contrary to the teachings of Islam”, the head of the African Union (AU) said at an event to mark Africa Day on Sunday. “We strongly condemn the abduction of the young, innocent schoolgirls…
Nigeria’s Niger Delta Sunday declared that it would settle for nothing less than a new constitution premised on Autonomy or…
Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko, has said he would compel members of the state executive council to give out…
The Lagos State Government has described the strike embarked on by lecturers of the Lagos State University (LASU) as an…
Former Defence Minister, General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (rtd), on Saturday told a gathering at the 40th coronation anniversary of the…