Agatu indigenes of Benue state have continued to lament over the untold hardship and perpetual fear that now becloud their different communities due to the recent multiple attacks launched on [...]
The Arewa Consultative Forum has said it would constitute a team that would monitor the conduct of the military in enforcing the state of emergency declared in Borno, Yobe and [...]
The House Committee Chairperson on youths and sports, in Plateau State House of Assembly has tasked the contractor handling the construction of National Youths Service Corps,NYSC, orientation camp in the [...]
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The Federation Accounts Allocation Committee on Wednesday in Abuja shared N721.505 billion for the month of April. Dr. Yerima Ngama, the Minister of State for Finance, made this known at [...]
The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, on Wednesday expressed concern over the continued violence and deteriorating security in North-eastern Nigeria. Reacting to the declaration of a state of emergency in [...]
Seven persons are feared dead in a building that collapsed in Agbama Housing Estate, Umuahia, the Abia state capital last night. The building was said to have been under construction [...]
A top United States official had on Wednesday said that Nigeria must protect the rights of civilians and avoid any “heavy-handed” response as it moves against Islamist sect to enforce [...]
Afenifere, a Yoruba pan socio-political group, the South-South governors and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN have hailed President Jonathan for declaring state of emergency in the crisis-ridden Adamawa, Borno [...]
The Plateau State Security Council has commended security agents in the state for the way they have managed security challenges that hitherto bed evilled the State, by ensuring that the [...]
No fewer than 10,000 people were said to have been displaced as a result of the attack on the people of Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State by Fulani [...]
The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, has delivered building materials to support Borno State Government in the construction of 250 houses for communities that were displaced by the 2012 flood [...]
“I am hungry and tired. Our patience has been over stretched. I can’t continue to borrow money to sustain my family even when I am working”. The joy that once [...]
The crisis rocking the Rivers state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has taken a dangerous turn as thugs openly committed arson on Tuesday, razing down the building of [...]
Armed men suspected to be Fulani herdsmen again attacked Zangang village of Atakar Chiefdom in Kaura Local Government area of Kaduna State on Tuesday, killing 11 people. Many more sustained [...]
Radical Lagos based lawyer, Bamidele Aturu, has stated that the security challenges across the nation was not the failure of the state, but a total absence of the state, noting [...]
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, GCFR ON THE DECLARATION OF A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN BORNO, YOBE AND ADAMAWA STATES IN ORDER TO RESTORE PUBLIC ORDER, PUBLIC SAFETY AND [...]
Publisher of LEADERSHIP Newspapers, Sam Nda-Isaiah, has lamented the present state of Nigeria Police, saying it is depressing that the institution which used to be among the best in the [...]
Wife of Benue State governor and founder of the SEV-AV Foundation, Mrs. Yemisi Suswam has been named the face of Akata fishing and Cultural Festival. The festival, a celebration of [...]
Staff of one of Nigeria’s telecommunications companies, Starcomms, say they will no longer remain silent over their two months unpaid salaries. The workers in a protest letter made available to [...]
Contrary to widely circulated media reports of his meeting with the Presidential Committee on Dialogue and Peaceful resolution of security Challenges in the North, the alleged mastermind of the Madala [...]
The former Lagos State Commandant of Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, Mr. Shem Obafaye, whose popularity soared with the ‘Oga at the top’ lingo, has resumed at his [...]
An Iranian businessman has been found guilty of smuggling weapons into Lagos and sentenced to five years in prison by a Nigerian court. Rockets, mortars and grenades were among the [...]
As the 2015 general elections continue to generate tittle tattle among Nigerians, a group, under the aegis of Partners for Electoral Reform,PER, has argued that there is a need to [...]
The International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law has said that over 2,500 Nigerians of South East origin have been killed during the regime of President Goodluck [...]
Several bombs, yesterday evening exploded in some parts of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Details of the incident still appear very sketchy, but roads within the eastern sector of the [...]
President-General of the Jama’atu Nasril Islam and Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Abubakar III, yesterday condemned the recent killings in Bama in Borno State and Alakyo in Nasarawa State by [...]
Following the spate of violence in recent weeks, Campaign for Democracy,CD, has expressed worries over the country’s state of insecurity. The group has described the brutal killing of policemen in [...]
The Federal Capital Territory Administration has lifted the suspension imposed on the 15 District Heads recently created by the Abaji Area Council. The Honourable Minister of State for FCT, Oloye [...]
Four days after Bama was invaded by Boko Haram, with over 55 persons murdered, it still remains a ghost town as there is no movement in and out of it, [...]
