The Committee for the Protection of Peoples Mandate (CPPM) has called on the United Nations to investigate the mass killings in Baga, Borno State by troops of three of its [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York The political disagreement between Nigeria's president Goodluck Jonathan and Rivers State governor Rotimi Amaechi took a new dimension today as aviation agencies prevented the aircraft of [...]

By Sani Tukur The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Mariam Aloma Mukhtar, has approved the suspension of Justice Abubakar Talba of the FCT High Court, Gudu, Abuja. The 12-month suspension [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York Fear has gripped students and lecturers of Delta State Polytechnic in Ozoro, Isoko North local government area following an alleged discovery that some incoming students have [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has appealed to Dr. Ahmad Datti and Comrade Shehu Sani to reconsider, in the interest of the North, their withdrawal from [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York A security source has just told SaharaReporters that suspected Boko Haram sect militants   last night invaded Mayo Belwa in  Adamawa State and engaged security agents guarding the [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York By the demands of his office, Governor Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State is supposed to be resident in the state capital of Yenogoa in order [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York As political calculations towards the 2015 elections take centrestage, victims of the 2011 post-election violence in nine States, one of them in the South, may be [...]

  Suspected members of the Boko Haram sect this afternoon in Bama, Borno State, killed a Divisional Police Officer and scores of police officers. Our source said the militants attacked [...]

By Ogala Emmanuel Here is a very important information from PREMIUM TIMES for the 47 million Nigerian Internet users. Big Brother, in the form of the Jonathan administration, is watching [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram militants in the early hours of today attacked and engaged soldiers of the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Gashua, Yobe [...]

A former secretary general of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), Udengs Eradiri, has called on the Federal Government to immediately order the Joint Military Task Force (JTF) to stop raiding [...]

By Global Information Network (GIN) U.S.-TRAINED TROOPS IN DESECRATION OF NIGERIAN TOWN   Apr. 23 (GIN) – A firefight Friday between insurgents and the Nigerian military claimed close to 180 [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York The All Nigeria Peoples Party [ANPP] has described as “a deep cut in the soul of the nation” last Friday’s killing of about 185 civilians in [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York The Senior Special Assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, on Tuesday described the merger of opposition political parties on the platform [...]

By Sani Tukur The minister claimed critics were using social media to slander Nigerian officials. read more Read full story on author website »

By SaharaReporters, New York A teenager and JSS2 student of Ikosi High school in Lagos drowned in the Oniyanri river in Owode-Ikorodu area of Lagos. read more Read full story on author website [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York A United States court has ruled against controversial US-based Nigerian lawyer, Emeka Ugwuonye, in a civil case filed by the Embassy of Nigeria in Washington, DC. [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York Fear has gripped residents of Azuzuama and surrounding communities as soldiers and other security operatives from the Joint Task Force are reportedly moving in to carry [...]

By Ola Audu The Nigerian military has, in less than 48 hours, released multiple but conflicting statistics on the Baga bloodshed, varying the number of the dead and date of [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York SaharaReporters has learned from sources close to President Goodluck Jonathan that Aigboje I. Aig-Imoukhuede, the controversial head of Access Bank Plc, has been tipped to succeed current [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York Aides of President Goodluck Jonathan are scheduling a series of meetings with ex-militant leaders from the Niger Delta states to smooth the way for Mr. Jonathan’s [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York Uncertain of his candidate winning next month’s chairmanship election of the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday night met with selected governors at the Presidential Villa and appealed to them not to vote for Mr. Rotimi Amaechi. read [...]

A gasoline tanker traveling on narrow road in a residential area in Ibadan caught fire from a local cooking fire place leading to fire explosions that have now gutted 25 [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York Africa’s most widely read writer, Chinua Achebe, will be buried on May 23, 2013 in his hometown, Ogidi, in Anambra State, Nigeria. Achebe died on March [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York The entire township of Baga, a border town in Borno state, was razed down at the weekend as a Nigeria-led multinational force and suspected members of [...]

By Emmanuel Dongala OMG NOOOOOOOOOOO I was still hoping to eventually meet Mr. Achebe at some point by constantly bothering you to introduce me to him so I could get [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York The United States has denounced pervasive impunity and corruption in the government of President Goodluck Jonathan.   “Impunity remained widespread at all levels of government,” the [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York Sheik Ahmad Gumi has again denounced the Boko Haram Islamic sect as diabolical, and called for them to be flushed out from all of Northern Nigeria, [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York NEMA has reported that a fire is raging on Aben Street, Olodi-Apapa in Lagos. More details shortly. Read full story on author website »