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…
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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…
Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has described as unjustifiable a 40 per cent reduction in the federal allocation being…
Governor Seriake Dickson has described the incessant breakdown of Law and Order in the rural communities of Bayelsa State as…
SOME BUSES AFFECTED BY explosion AT NYANYA MOTOR PARK IN Abuja ON MONDAY (14/4/14). The car containing the bomb that…
The Divisional Police Officer in charge of Onikan Station, Mr. Adekunle Awe, who was accused of having carnal knowledge of…
Mr Yakubu Attah, Assistant Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) yesterday said that Bauchi zone RS 12…
The Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has said that Nigerians must unite against evil that is currently threatening the…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has congratulated the people of the state and Nigerians in general for witnessing another Easter…
At least 58 people were killed and more than 100 others wounded in Thursday’s attack on a UN base in…
Jos Forum of the Switzerland-based Centre for Human Development has urged citizens of Plateau State to be at alert, following…
Senator representing Taraba North senatorial district in the National Assembly, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha, Thursday alleged that a cabal opposed to…
The Chairman of Subsidy Re-Investment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P), retired General Martin Luther Agwai has called on all patriotic Nigerians…
The Minister of Youth Development, Mr. Boni Haruna has joined several other well meaning Nigerians to condemn in strong terms,…
Migration in West Africa is primarily motivated by reasons of employment and economic activity, highlighting the importance of the labour…
Hajiya Amina Namadi Sambo, the Wife of the Vice President has announced the partnership of her Office with the Diabetes…
Gunmen Thursday ambushed officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) between Sade and Lanzai towns in Darazo Local Government Area…