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Gov. Idris Wada of Kogi on Wednesday sacked the Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Alhaji Jibrin Usman. Also…

An urgent international effort to help Nigeria find more than 200 girls kidnapped by Islamist militants is focused on providing intelligence as experts try to locate the hostages. Amid global outrage over the kidnapping, the United States, France and…

Boko Haram attacks have shifted the focus at the World Economic Forum hosted by Nigeria, CNN’s John Defterios explains.

Justice Muhammad Garba Umar of the Federal High Court, Bauchi today convicted an sentenced Ahmad Adamu, a 25-year-old native doctor…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has faulted the claim by Mr. Godwin Adeolu Dania, former Private Secretary to…

  So the drama continues. With all the tears being shed and blood over the missing Chibok girls, most people…

A group of elders from the North-East have told President Goodluck Jonathan in no uncertain terms that his wife, Dame…

Former governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, yesterday donated the sum of N11.5m to the state chapter of the…

Former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) and former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar have been advised to bury…

Wife of Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Clark, Dr. Abisola Sodipo-Clark, is set to throw her hat in the ring…

President GOODLUCK Jonathan (R), WELCOMING THE VISITING Chinese PRIME MINISTER, LI KEQIANG IN Abuja ON WEDNESDAY (7/5/14). President Goodluck Jonathan…

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a trader for attempting to smuggle 9.375 kilogramme of compressed cannabis…

The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Wednesday said troops operating in the North Central and North western parts of the country…

FILE PHOTO One year after at least 65 members of a joint team of policemen and operatives of the Department…

Prominent Islamic scholar, Sheik (Dr) Ahmad Gumi yesterday accused the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and the Jama’atu Nasir Islam…

JUMIA, Nigeria’s largest online retailer with over 20,000 fashion items in store has recently expanded its reach promoting more Nigerian…

OTTAWA, Canada, May 8, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie,…

DUBLIN, Ireland, May 8, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore…

(NBC News) President Obama is sending U.S. advisers and drones to help find hundreds of Nigerian girls kidnapped from their school by the terrorist group Boko Haram.

Gunmen suspected to be students, Tuesday, shot a lecturer in the University of Calabar, Dr Godwin Iwatt in his office…