Mr Dipo Olorunrinu, (PDP Amuwo-Odofin Constituency I), Lagos State House of Assembly has urged the party to give former Vice-President…
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Charles Oputa, popularly called Charly Boy, joined the Concerned Nigerians group in Abuja on Wednesday, January 17, 2018, to protest…
Ayodele Fayose has called President Muhammadu Buhari an ethnic champion and a religious bigot following the appointment of Ahmed Abubakar…
Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti state has called on the police to handle its investigations into the Ile-Ife crisis without…
Senator Shehu Sani has condemned the violent clash which occurred between Hausa and Yoruba traders in the Mile 12 area…
Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has admitted that there was obvious religious and ethnic discords among Nigerians. Speaking at the…
The United States President Barack Obama has sent a special message to the Nigerian People in preparation for the upcoming…
The Force Headquarters has refuted claims that postings of officers to various commands and formations are done based on religious,…
Gov. Aliyu Wamakko of Sokoto State has cautioned against the politicisation of the nation’s security agencies. Wamakko spoke in Sokoto…
National leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday, told all its governors, federal and state legislators, ministers, chairmen of…
27 June 2014 – Thousands of people are fleeing new violence and reprisal attacks in and around the town of…
The International Criminal Court on Friday sentenced Congolese warlord Germain Katanga to 12 years in jail for arming an ethnic militia that carried out a “particularly cruel” 2003 village massacre. “The chamber sentences Germain Katanga to 12 years…
US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Thursday of a risk of genocide in South Sudan if the country’s four-month-old civil war is not stopped. “There are very disturbing leading indicators of the kind of ethnic, tribal, targeted nationalistic killings…
Clashes between rival tribes have left at least 34 people dead with homes and barns torched in a village in central Nigeria, the state government told AFP on Sunday. The violence erupted Saturday when a militia from the Eggon tribe attacked the Gwandara…
Gunmen killed at least 17 people in an attack on a village in eastern Nigeria where scores of people have died in ethnic violence in recent weeks, police said Wednesday. Residents of the predominantly Christian village in Taraba state put the death…
Rebel gunmen in South Sudan massacred “hundreds” of civilians in ethnic killings when they captured the oil town of Bentiu last week, the UN said Monday, one of the worst reported atrocities in the war-torn nation. In the main mosque alone, “more than…
Crimea’s Tatars on Saturday voted to push for self-rule in their historic homeland following its annexation by Russia, but remained torn on how to engage with the new authorities. Ethnic Tatars from all over Crimea convened in the town of Bakhchysaray…
A national conference criticised for its cost and scope opens in Nigeria’s capital on Monday, with the country’s future existence looming large over the talks. Nearly 500 delegates from the hundreds of ethnic, religious and linguistic groups that make…
Modern Nigeria emerged through the merging of two British colonial territories in 1914. The amalgamation was an act of colonial convenience. It occurred mainly because British colonizers desired a contiguous colonial territory stretching from the arid…