The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, has called on Muslim faithful to join in a one month fasting…
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US President Barack Obama described the kidnapping of more than 220 schoolgirls by Islamists in Nigeria as “heartbreaking” and “outrageous” as Washington deployed military experts in the hunt for the children. Obama urged global action against Boko…
Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has condoled with the Oputa family on the sudden demise of legal icon and…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has mourned the death of the Lagos State Governor, Sir Michael Otedola. The Governor…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday reassured the international community that the Federal Government would do everything possible to ensure the…
Lagos State AIDS Control Agency has revealed that 1,702 pregnant women in the state tested positive to HIV and had…
Forensic DNA technology could help identify and reunite with their families the more than 200 Nigerian girls who were kidnapped by Islamist militants, scientists told AFP Tuesday. Software already exists to match missing people with their relatives,…
Major-General Chris Olukolade stood outside the Nigerian Defence Headquarters in Abuja and raised his hands for silence, as 100 or so men and women sat in the road blocking traffic. In front of him opposite the Old Parade Ground, the protesters, most…
Nigerian parents on Tuesday said their worst fears about their daughters’ fates had been confirmed after Boko Haram, which kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls last month, threatened to sell the hostages as “slaves.” Abubakar Shekau, who leads the Islamist…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on May 5, 2014 arraigned one Enekwechi Raymond Onyimba before the Chief Judge…
The Lagos State Government on Tuesday threatened to sanction any church or mosque found disturbing public peace with noise from…
The United States offered Tuesday to send a team of experts to Nigeria to help find 200 kidnapped schoolgirls amid…
The Police Command in Kano State said on Tuesday that it had recovered two rifles from a dustbin in Kano…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday commiserated with Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on the death of a former governor…
US actress Angelina Jolie on Tuesday condemned as “unthinkable cruelty and evil” the kidnapping of over 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria by Boko Haram Islamists. The star was speaking in Paris about the themes of her latest film “Maleficent” for Disney, in…
A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Umar Na’abba, on Monday in Abuja, faulted the elevation of Senate…
The Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, flag bearer in the August 9 governorship election in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, yesterday…
Alhaji Shuaib Oyedokun, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Board of Trustees, on Monday expressed optimism that all…
Fourteen Senior Special Assistants (SSA) to Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo, three directors and one board chairman in the state,…
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will use Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) for the Ekiti and Osun States governorship elections.…