US and British experts have arrived in Nigeria to help in the hunt for more than 200 schoolgirls whose abduction last month by Islamists prompted universal outrage. The US embassy in Abuja told AFP Friday that a team of American experts had arrived…
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Elizabeth Smart, a former child abductee turned activist, talks to the Wall Street Journal’s Lee Hawkins about more than 200 girls who are missing in Nigeria and reveals what she would tell them if she could speak with them now. Lee Hawkins reports.…
Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has tasked Nigerians on the need to unite in the fight against insurgency in the…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has urged the National Assembly to urgently initiate a probe into how the budgetary allocations…
The Enugu State chapter of All Progressives Congress, APC, has berated the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for keeping opposition…
Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State has alleged that opposition parties contesting in the June 21 governorship poll were determined…
The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, said on Thursday that it has the capacity to rescue the girls abducted from Government Secondary…
Almost a month after over 250 girls were kidnapped, Nigeria’s military and police chiefs, Thursday, visited the school where the…
An Onitsha-based Islamic cleric, Hanafi Anasalatu, on Thursday, stated that forced marriage was not recognized in Islam or the teachings…
A group, BAOBAB for women’s right on Thursday called on the First lady, Dame Patience Jonathan to as a matter…
The pan-northern socio-political group, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) yesterday said the fact finding presidential committee on abducted schoolgirls from Chibok,…
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…