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The Northern Governor’s Forum (NGF) on Monday said the incessant attacks by the Boko Haram sect has gone beyond the…
A 19-year-old boy, Burwa White, was on Monday sentenced to four months imprisonment by a Special Offences Court in Alausa,…
Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State, Monday said the terrorist sect, Boko Haram, were better armed and better motivated by…
Kano State Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, Monday, said the All Progressives Congress, APC, has registered 2 million members in Kano…
Kano State Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, Monday, said the All Progressives Congress, APC, has registered 2 million members in Kano…
The governor of Nigeria’s embattled Borno state warned President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday that the military is outgunned in its fight against Boko Haram and more troops are urgently needed. Governor Kashim Shettima travelled to the capital Abuja…
By Chris Simpson Malian soldiers participate in training run by the EUBAMAKO, 17 February 2014 (IRIN) – Despite international efforts…
Follow @{0}Faeqa Saeed Al-Saleh, Joint General Secretary at the League of Arab States, with women in Beydia TaboyettGORGOL/BRAKNA, 17 February…
Bayelsa State Government says the issuance of Certificate of Occupancy, C of O, will go a long way in resolving…
Land and property owners in Bayelsa State would soon pay appropriate levies in line with the administration’s tax policies geared…
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State on Saturday, offered automatic employment to best graduating students of the Bayelsa State College…
Follow @{0}The devastation of the 2012 floods lingers onIBAJI, 14 February 2014 (IRIN) – Residents displaced by the 2012 deluge…
Follow @{0}Houses along the coast of BakassiDAKAR, 12 February 2014 (IRIN) – Twelve years after an International Court of Justice…
By Chris Simpson The war in the desert – old rivalries must end TIMBUKTU, 12 February 2014 (IRIN) – The…
Gunmen suspected of being Boko Haram Islamists have reportedly killed dozens of people, mostly Christians, in a village in northeast Nigeria, an official and local residents said on Sunday. “They killed many, many people in the attack late on Saturday…
He started reading newspapers as early as age five and was nicknamed ‘Current Affairs’ by the time he was 10.…
The allegation that five members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, collected $1million. each to defect to the PDP, last…
The address of Mrs Diezani Allison-Madueke, Petroleum and Natural Resources Minister to the Senate Panel. . For years, the issue…
AS part of the moves to woo aggrieved members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, back to the party, a…