Gunmen have killed 13 people in an attack on a farming community in central Nigeria in the latest deadly violence to rip through the region, police said on Monday. A further 10 people were injured in the shooting in the village of Gbajimba on Sunday…
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Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for an attack on a key military barracks in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, in a new video obtained on Monday by AFP that warns of further bloodshed, including against civilians. “We carried out the attacks…
Defence Ministry Report The Director of Defence Information of the Counter Terrorism Campaign, Chris Olukolade has revealed that the…
Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson disclosed at the weekend in Lagos that the proposed Film village would gulp N20…
Ijebu Ode, Ogun State at the weekend went agog as the Bayelsa State Governor; Hon. Seriake Dickson re-connected with his…
Former Ekiti State Governor, Otunba Niyi Adebayo; Speaker Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr Adewale Omirin; Secretary to the State…
An Operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Jonathan Barde, was on Tuesday, March 18, 2014, knocked…
THIRTY-ONE suspects including a 28-year old Pastor Okpara Emmanuel Chigozie, who allegedly demanded for N50 million ransom after kidnapping a…
A mobile policeman attached to a bank in Minna, Niger State allegedly shot himself. to death with his service rifle.…
CONTROVERSY over representation at the ongoing National Conference yesterday made the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to threaten to boycott…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Special Congress for the nomination of the party’s candidate for the June 21 governorship election…
About 20 bodies of people believed to have been killed for ritual purposes were discovered, yesterday, in Soka, Oluyole local…
At least 17 people have been killed by an explosion in a village market in Borno State in an attack…
President Goodluck Jonathan has arrived Amsterdam, Netherlands, ahead of the Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) scheduled to hold in The Hague…
The Consumer Protection Council (CPC) has said that consumer’s right is not observed in the country. . Head of CPC,…
FOR going ahead with the competency test for secondary and primary schools in the state, despite a court order stopping…
The Registrar of a Magistrate’s Court in Enugu State has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for demanding bribe in…
MOGADISHU, Somalia, March 23, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — In an operation early this morning, Somali National Army backed by…
Nigerian police rescued 16 people from an underground dungeon believed to be a ritual killing site, the local newspaper Leadership…
Nigerian police said Sunday they have opened a murder probe after the discovery of rotting bodies and skeletons in an abandoned building the media has branded a “House of Horror”. Police also rescued several severely malnourished people founded wandering…