The pan-northern socio-political group, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) yesterday said the fact finding presidential committee on abducted schoolgirls from Chibok,…
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JUMIA,Nigeria’s largest online retailer, founded in Nigeria in early 2012, wins yet another big award as e-commerce website of the…
The re-constituted Delta State Environmental Sanitation Task Force Committee empowered to remove illegal structures, abandoned vehicles and blocked drainages has…
LONDON, United-Kingdom, May 9, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — UK team has arrived in Abuja to support Nigerian government in…
NEW YORK, May 9, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of Marco…
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 9, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission and IOM…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, May 9, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Following an invitation from the National Electoral Commission (CNE) of…
OTTAWA, Canada, May 9, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Following reports of the killing of more than 300 civilians in…
A group, BAOBAB for Women’s Right, yesterday, called on the First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, to apologise to parents of…
The Bayelsa State Government notes with regret, the unfortunate incident of the kidnap of three Dutch Nationals at Letugbene community…
An improvised bridge linking residents of Dobi community in Gwagwalada Area Council of Abuja (FCT) and other communities in the…
Former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd.), yesterday, urged Nigerians to put aside politics and all other divisions to…
Lagos Lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) yesterday said the panel of inquiry allegedly set up by the First Lady, Mrs Patience…
President of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote said experience had proven that Nigeria’s business environment is conducive for investment,…
Islamist sect Boko Haram has now reportedly cut off Nigeria’s border town with Cameroon, Gamboru, from the rest of the…
As the World Economic Forum (WEF) kicked off in earnest in Abuja, President Goodluck Jonathan Thursday said the coming to…
Social media sites have exploded with urgent appeals to #bringbackourgirls, ramping up global awareness of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram extremists 24 days earlier. The hashtag appeared 412,000 times on Twitter on Thursday alone,…
Boko Haram’s kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in Nigeria last month has captured global attention. How common is it for teenagers to be abducted in West Africa and forced into sexual servitude? Where can they end up? WSJ’s Jason Bellini has #TheShortAnswer…
Jake Tapper talks to Pentagon’s Rear Adm. John Kirby about how the U.S. plans to help Nigeria rescue kidnapped girls.
Christian Solidarity International’s Franco Majok gives insight into who is supporting the terrorists