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A Nigerien in possession of over 1,000 passport photographs of young boys have been arrested by men of the Ogun…

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, on Thursday delivered medical consumables worth millions of naira to victims of Abuja bomb…

A religious organisation, Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has accused security agencies in the country of being biased in the campaign…

A member of the Board of Trustees of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and proprietor of Rogenny Tourist Village Oba in Anambra…

DR. SAM AMADI The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has directed the Electricity Distribution Companies (Discos) to with immediate effect,…

Senate President, David Mark; his deputy, Ike Ekweremadu; and the Senator representing Kwara Central Senatorial District, Senator Bukola Saraki have…

Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram is still holding 85 girls it abducted from a raid on a secondary school in northeastern Borno state this week, although the other 44 were free, the state government said on Saturday. Monday’s mass abduction…

President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday promised that despite the “evil machinations” of terrorists, criminals and their collaborators, his administration will…

The Osun State chapter of All Progressives Congress has rejected the war intention of the Vice President, Namadi Sambo, who…

Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for Monday’s cowardly attack on a motor park in Nyanya, a suburb of Abuja, which…

Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi has said he will start teaching at the state-owned university in October this year .…

Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi has called on the people not to see the June 21 governorship election in…

The Borno State Government has announced that fourteen more students of the state-owned Government Girls’ Secondary School, Chibok, are presently…

Detectives in the Ondo state Police Command for have arrested a man who called himself an actor, Onyeke Michael, over…

The leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists Abubakar Shekau claimed responsibility for a bombing in Nigeria’s capital that killed at least 75 people, in a video message obtained by AFP on Saturday. “We are the ones that carried out the attack in Abuja…

Another 14 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram Islamists in the northeast have escaped, leaving 85 missing on Saturday after an attack that has sparked global outrage, an official said. The unprecedented mass abduction of 129 teenage girls…

The Peoples Democratic Party has called on Nigerians, irrespective of religious affiliations to use the occasions of Good Friday and…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday accused President Goodluck Jonathan and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of politicizing the nation’s…

Governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday maintained that they were duly informed that Thursday’s expanded meeting of the…

Chaplain of the Aso Villa chapel, Ven. Obioma Onwuzurumba, on Friday, said despite the prevailing situation in the country, nobody…