By SaharaReporters, New York The Police High Command has condemned today’s “unprovoked and brutal” killing of scores of policemen who were on legitimate assignment in Nasarawa State. read more [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Mohammed D. Abubakar, Inspector General of Police By SaharaReporters, New York A man who admits to be an Ombatse traditional religionist in Nassarawa State has told [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York A military aircraft today crash-landed in Port Harcourt after it developed “an emergency,” an official of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has confirmed, butnobody aboard [...]
Tomorrow, perhaps, but not today, the Nigeria Union of Journalists and the National Union of Printing, Publishing and Paper Product Workers seemed to have said this morning, halting all work [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), led by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has appealed to the Boko Haram sect [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York President Goodluck Jonathan's visit to South Africa and Namibia has ended abruptly as the President, and his team cancelled a scheduled state visit to Namibia. Sources [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Prominent elder statesman and Ijaw national leader, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, has expressed opposition to the declaration by the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York First Lady Patience Jonathan has refuted reports that she is involved in the crisis in Rivers State. In a statement today, Ayo Osinlu, her Special [...]
GOLD RUSH LEADS TO MINE COLLAPSE IN NORTH SUDAN, 100 LIVES LOST May 7 (GIN) – Efforts to ramp up Sudan’s gold mining industry came to a disastrous halt [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Military sources have told SaharaReporters that Tuesday’s unprecedented onslaught on Bama by suspected Boko Haram terrorists resulted in the death of two soldiers and 13 of [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Speaker of the Rivers State House Of Assembly, Mr. Otelemaba Dan Amachree, has condemned what he called “the pettiness of centripetal forces in Governance as [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The paternity controversy between Nigerian music star and entertainer, P-2 (real name Paul Okoye), and a beauty pageant contestant and model, Elshamah Igbanoi, has taken a [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York SaharaReporters has learnt that unknown gunmen struck yesterday at the coastal community of Kuroamagbene in the southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa, killing two persons [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Today’s brazen attack on military, prison and police formations in Bama in Borno is perhaps the biggest yet by Boko Haram militants, security sources have said. read more Read full story on author [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Wale Babalakin, the embattled Bi-Courtney boss chiefly implicated in a monumental money laundering scheme on behalf of the former Delta State Governor, James Onanefe Ibori, failed [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Legislative activity at National Assembly in Abuja today was brought to a halt as staff members protest illegal deductions of pension fund from their salaries, fraudulent [...]
A soldier attached to Kingsley Kuku, an aide of President Goodluck Jonathan and Chairman of Amnesty Implementation Committee on Saturday shot and injured a youth in Yenagoa, again prompting the [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Boko Haram militants struck a police and army barracks today on Bama and Bankai in Bp*rno state killing several police officers and civilians. read more Read [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York SaharaReporters has learnt that thugs working for the Deputy Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, Leo Ogor Okuweh, brutally beat one Linus Ezuzu for daring [...]
By Abdul Mahmud The Public Interest Lawyers League has thrown its weight behind the action of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) in grounding the private jet of Rivers State [...]
By Reuters (Reuters) – A Nigerian fighter jet taking part in military operations against al Qaeda-linked Islamic militants in Mali crashed in western Niger, killing its two crew, Niger and [...]
The State Security Service (SSS) today paraded a suspect, ex-militant Adelola Tamunotonye Olaore, alias "General Africa" over a plot to assassinate and extort money from Senator Aloysius Etok in Abuja. [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Joint Task Force (JTF) “Operation Restore Order” in Maiduguri says it has killed or arrested almost all the suspects involved in last year’s assassination of [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Mahmud Tukur, son of the chairman of the People’s Democratic Party’s (PDP), Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has challenged the jurisdiction of the Ikeja High Court to try [...]
A former Nigerian oil minister, Ali Shettima Monguno kidnapped in Maiduguri last Friday by militants suspected to be Boko Haram members has been freed. read more Read full story on [...]
Several participants in a peace meeting convened by Governor Peter Obi to resolve a dispute rocking the Anambra State Association of the United States of America (ASA-USA) have told SaharaReporters [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Bareley one month after an ambush on a convoy of 50 policemen on escort duty, gunmen suspected to be ex-militants have reportedly killed eight persons in [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York At least three people, one of them a local government councilor contestant, were killed in various parts of the Kogi State yesterday as violence marred the [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York A security source in Adamawa State has just phoned SaharaReporters that suspected members of the militant Islamist sect, Boko Haram, attacked a church and a market [...]
A new oil spill, in the Taylor Creek in Yenagoa, Bayelsa, was today reported by residents of Ikarama, Crude oil pipelines belonging to both Shell and Agip traverse the community, [...]
