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With the deployment of Mobile Intensive Care Units (MICU) to strategic locations for emergency response, the National Emergency Management Agency…

Nigeria’s First Lady, Patience Jonathan has counseled Nigerian girls to have confidence in themselves and actualize their visions with dedication…

Simmering tensions over a key oil-producing state in Nigeria mounted on Thursday, as the country’s two main political parties traded threats and insults, stoking fears of violence in the run-up to elections. The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)…

Hostility towards gays is escalating in Nigeria since President Goodluck Jonathan signed a popular anti-gay bill into law. Police used tear gas today to disperse an angry mob outside a Nigerian court today as the crowd threw rocks at prisoners accused…

The Nigerian cement industry has attracted additional investment worth $8 billion, driven largely by the implementation of the Federal Government’s…

The Minister of Education, Ezenwo Nyesom Wike has re-assured the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) of Government’s commitment to…

The Federation of Public Service Games (FEPSGA) has honoured the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku and the Permanent Secretary in…

The Minister of Information, Labaran Maku has expressed fulfillment with the performance of the ministry’s contingents to the 2013 Civil…

The Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Nkechi Ejele has held an interactive session with the…

January 23, 2014 President Goodluck Jonathan and Rwanda President Paul Kigama at the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos Yesterday…

Governor Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State has described the appointment of former National Chairman of Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP,…

L-R: Senator Oluremi Tinubu; Wife of Adamawa State Governor, Hajia Zainab Nyako; her Ekiti State counterpart, Erelu Bisi Fayemi; Interim…

GROUP TO HONOR PRESIDENT JONATHAN, ORJI IN UMUAHIA The coalition of Youth and Pressure Groups, South East zone has concluded…

Governor Theodore Orji osays it is his belief that the new national chairman of the PDP, Adamu Muazu will work…

CONAKRY, Guinea, January 22, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — An IMF mission led by Harry Snoek visited Conakry during January…

Preamble: The Information Minister, Mr. Labaran Maku who also oversees the Defence Ministry had an exceptional meeting with a team of…

January 22, 2014 From left Nigeria Ambassador to Swezaland Mrs Fidelia Njeze Foreign Affairs Minister Prof. Viola Nwul iri Welcoming…

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The Wife of Nigerian President, Patience Jonathan, who is the President of the African First Ladies Peace Mission, has expressed…

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen shot dead a teacher in a northeast Nigerian village on the border with Chad, police and residents said on Tuesday. The attackers stormed a house late on Monday, where the head of a primary school lived, killing him and wounding…