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The Management of the Nigerian National Merit Award (NNMA) has issued a rejoinder to the press coverage of the inauguration…
LONDON, United-Kingdom, May 2, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — FCO Minister for Africa, Mark Simmonds, condemns bomb attack in Abuja…
The National Conference Secretariat has denied news reports that the Federal Government has approved the extension of the duration of…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has assured that his administration is working in collaboration with the relevant security agencies…
The Nasarawa State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) on Friday rescued a 12-year-old boy, Sunday…
The Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Friday allayed fears of insecurity in Abuja as the World Economic Forum…
The number of Nigerian schoolgirls still missing from recent kidnappings at a secondary school in Chibok has risen to 276…
A non-political organisation, Northern Youths Leaders Forum, (NYLF), has called for the sack of the service chiefs if insurgency persists…
Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has tasked scientists in Nigeria to proffer solution to the worsening insecurity in the country.…
CNN talks to children’s rights advocate, Toyin Olakanpo, about the abducted girls in Nigeria and the govt. response.
A former Oyo State Head of Service, Mrs Kudirat Iyabo Adeleke and eleven other suspects implicated in a N5.6Billion pension…
Justice Lawal Akapo of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja on Friday, May 2nd, 2014, told a former managing director of…
As outrage continues to greet the comment credited to National Women Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Kema Chikwe,…
The National Woman Leader of Nigeria’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Kema Chikwe, has said her comment on the abducted…
A former gubernatorial candidate of the defunct All Nigeria People’s Party, ANPP, in Edo State, Solomon Edebiri, has defected to…
FROM LEFT: Rivers NLC CHAIRMAN, MRCHRIS ORUGE; Gov. CHIBUIKE Amaechi AND CHAIRMAN, Rivers TRADE UNION CONGRESS, MR CHIKA ONUOGBU, DURING…
The World Economic Forum (WEF) on Friday said it has received assurances from President Goodluck Jonathan that adequate security arrangements…
A car bombing at a bus station on the outskirts of Nigeria’s capital killed at least 19 people and injured 80, an official said Friday, just weeks after Boko Haram Islamists attacked the same spot. Duration: 00:46
A copy-cat bombing in Nigeria’s capital that killed 19 people and wounded scores more raised fears on Friday of Boko Haram’s growing strength, just days before Abuja hosts a major world summit. A car bomb at the Nyanya bus station on the outskirts of…