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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…
Nigerian police boosted security across Abuja on Tuesday after a bomb blast ripped through a packed bus station killing at least 75 people, the deadliest attack ever to hit the capital. Health Minister Onyebuchi Chukwu, who visited some major hospitals…
A loud blast rocked a bus station packed with commuters heading to Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Monday, with many people feared injured, the rescue agency spokesman told AFP. “This morning there was an explosion at the Nyanya Motor Park,” Manzo Ezekiel…
Nigeria has released a man who was arrested for tweeting pictures of an attempted jail break at the headquarters of the intelligence agency in Abuja, his younger brother told AFP Saturday. Yusuf Siyaka Onimisi, who works for a national electricity firm…
Nigeria’s top human rights body on Monday said that eight people shot dead by intelligence agents in Abuja last year were civilians and not Boko Haram militants, as the government claimed. The Directorate for State Services (DSS) said on September 20…
A prison gun battle in Nigeria has left 21 people dead. Security officials say detainees suspected of being members of Islamist militant group Boko Haram overpowered their guards at a prison near Nigeria’s presidential villa in Abuja on Sunday, seizing…
MEMBERS OF CATHOLIC Women ORGANISATION (CWO) OF ST LUKE CHAPLAINCY, UNIVERSITY OF Abuja TEACHING HOSPITAL, GWAGWALADA, CELEBRATING MOTHER’S Day IN…
Justice Olasumbo Goodluck of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja has adjourned to June 4, 2014 for ruling on…
A Nigerian labour union on Monday staged a protest over a deadly weekend stampede at a recruitment drive and demanded the interior minister’s resignation. At least seven job-seekers were killed when a stampede broke out on Saturday at the national stadium…
Lots of finger-pointing in Nigeria, after a deadly stampede at a job fair. Nigerian officials say at least 16 people died when 500,000 people were invited to apply for fewer than 5,000 government jobs. Joining VOA’s Vincent Makori on the phone with…
President Francois Hollande on Thursday said France stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Nigeria in its battle against Boko Haram, vowing to support its fight against Islamist militancy as it had done in Mali. Hours before Hollande’s arrival in Abuja, hundreds…
The Acting Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Dr Sarah Alade, has urged staff of the bank to ensure the…
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…
Newly married Tiwa Savage has signed another multi-million naira endorsement deal months after being made a brand ambassador for MTN.…
A popular radio presenter in Abuja is dead. Daniel Jibrin popularly called Danosaur died on Wednesday February 5, 2014 days…
The National Film and Video Censor Board, NFVCB, has seized pornographic, pirated and uncensored films worth over 2.5 million naira…
The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, ordered members of the Interim State Executive Committee of the All…
Controversial Rivers State Commissioner, Joseph Mbu has been removed. . The Police Service Commission (PSC), Thursday, announced the redeployment of…
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday called on his new military top brass not to disappoint the nation in their task to crush the Boko Haram insurgency. He told the officers in Abuja that “the war against terror must be won in this country…