Three days after the declaration of state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States, residents of Yobe and Borno States have continued to live without network on all the [...]

The Nigerian Army has alerted the public on the use of military camouflage by members of the Boko Haram sect to perpetrate violence and create an impression that the military [...]

Nigerian forces used jets and attack helicopters to bombard Islamist militant camps in the northeast on Friday, killing a number of insurgents, the defense headquarters spokesman said. Brigadier-General Chris Olukolade [...]

A legal practioner and public affairs an*lyst, Ikechukwu Ikeji has faulted the manner in which President Goodluck Jonathan has handled the declaration of State of Emergency in Adamawa, Yobe and [...]

The Nigerian Army has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew across Adamawa State, one of the three states that had a state of emergency imposed on them by President Goodluck Jonathan for [...]

State governors have asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to sell over 78,000 excess laptops and webcams to them for distribution to secondary schools and promotion of computer literacy [...]

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon has called on all extremist groups in Nigeria to cease attacks on the northern part of the country. The UN scribe [...]

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved a medium term debt management strategy to address the structure and level of the nation’s domestic and foreign debts. As part of [...]

New Orleans police arrested a man identified in connection with a shooting at a Mother’s Day parade in which 19 people were injured, authorities said late on Wednesday. Akein Scott, [...]

Opposition parties, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) have both criticised the declaration of a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States. [...]

Expectations were high that when federal lawmakers resumed on Wednesday they would address the emergency rule which President Goodluck Jonathan declared in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States on Tuesday. However, [...]

The River State House of Assembly has written to the President to intervene in the crisis in the state to avoid total breakdown of law and order.In the letter addressed [...]

The Nigerian Army on Wednesday launched a military campaign with over 2,000 soldiers, to flush Islamist militants out of bases in the country’s North East border areas. President Goodluck Jonathan [...]

The Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Media and Publicity, Reuben Abati on Wednesday said the president action of declaring a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa [...]

The National Chairman of Labour Party (LP), Dan Nwanyanwu has called on the Federal Government not to suspend the dialogue and amnesty programme extended to the Boko Haram sect. Mr [...]

Gunmen suspected to be Fulanis have gone on rampage in Kaduna State, killing about 11 people and injuring several others, after they staged an attack on Zangang village of Attakar [...]

President Goodluck Jonathan, on Tuesday, met with members of the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the North. The Chairman of the committee, Karibu Turaki, [...]

The Rivers State House of Assembly Speaker, Honorable Dan Amachree, has written to President Goodluck Jonathan to intervene in the lingering political imbroglio in the state. In an open letter [...]

Pirates have released five Polish and Russian crew members they kidnapped from a cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria last month, the vessel’s management company said reports Reuters. The [...]

The Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) has kicked against the agitation for the imposition of state of emergency in the troubled states in northern Nigeria. The NGF made this known in [...]

Azim Aghajani, a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has been found guilty of smuggling weapons into Lagos and sentenced to five years in prison by a Federal High Court in [...]

A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt has ordered the police to vacate the Obior/Akpor Local government secretariat in Rivers State, South-South Nigeria. The court gave the directive on Monday [...]

The Special adviser to the president on Niger Delta and Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Committee, Kingsley Kuku has said that President Goodluck Jonathan deserves a second term if he [...]

Right activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana on Monday said the presence situation in the country is nothing short of a full blown war. Mr Falana, who was [...]

The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) has revealed that 70,000 infants are infected with HIV/AIDS through mother to child transmission in Nigeria annually. The Director-General of the [...]

As part of efforts to encourage a wider and communal participation in the investigation of the recent killing of police men in Nasarawa state, the Police High Command has established [...]

The Imo state police command has uncovered an illegal motherless baby’s home where about 17 pregnant teenage girls are held hostage for the purpose of child making and trafficking in [...]

The UK Foreign Secretary; William Jefferson Hague has reacted fervidly to the recent extremist attack in north east Nigeria, as he reiterated UK’s support pointing out that the protection the [...]

Filming of the new “Star Wars” movie will take place in England, returning the franchise to its British roots, Disney’s Lucasfilm has confirmed. The six previous “Star Wars” films were [...]

Former Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change; General Muhammadu Buhari firmly stated today that the All Progressives Congress would be too strong for the [...]