By Nnenna Ibeh The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Aloma Mukhtar, has fired a query in the direction of Lawal Gumi, the Chief Judge of Federal Capital Territory, seeking explanation over [...]
Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, the President of the Christian Association Nigeria (CAN), has welcomed yesterday’s declaration of a state of emergency in three north east states, saying the action is in [...]
By Premium Times Gunmen, believed to be members of the extremist Boko Haram sect, on Tuesday evening shot dead the Borno Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN. read [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Anti-Corruption Network, which last month petitioned President Goodluck Jonathan to fire the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, today asked the Minister to [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Both the Gombe State police command and the leadership of Gombe State House of Assembly are downplaying an incident that led to a serious beating of [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York There are strong indications that the Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, legislators and prominent government officials in Rivers State may be assassinated, the Speaker of the House [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria today declared a state of emergency in three Nigerian states of Adamawa, Yobe and Borno. The president made the declaration during a nationwide broadcast carried [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York President Goodluck Jonathan is preparing to address Nigerians on the lingering security problem facing some states in the northern part of the country. read more Read [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York At least 15 persons were killed and over 20 are still missing following yesterday’s violence in Zangan, Kaura Local Government Area of troubled southern Kaduna State. [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Five foreigners kidnapped aboard a German ship off the Niger Delta region coast in Bayelsa have regained their freedom. read more Read full story on author [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Police and prosecution sources in Enugu, the capital of Enugu State, have told SaharaReporters that they need the help of the public to track down key [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York At about 1.30 a.m. on Friday, May 4, 2012 four assailants forced their way into 62, 2nd Ugbor Road, Benin City, the home of Olaitan Oyerinde, [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Villagers in Kagoro, Kaduna State have reported their area as coming under sporadic herdsmen shooting tonight. read more Read full story on author website »
By SaharaReporters, New York Suspected pirates at the weekend attacked and robbed no fewer than 80 boat passengers traveling along Sabatoru-Ibeta-Iwoma-Nembe water ways in Nembe local government area of Bayelsa [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Boko Haram sect has claimed responsibility for the recent major assault on Baga and Bama, in Borno state, in which over 200 people, including soldiers, [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Bamanga Tukur, has admitted that his political party has no ideology. read more Read full story on author [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has expressed objection to the possible imposition of a state of emergency in some parts of the country, describing requests for it as “being made by people who [...]
By Channelstv.com 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 [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York An urgent call has gone to President Goodluck Jonathan to arrest Nigeria’s growing youth unemployment as it has made crime and criminalities more attractive to them. [...]
By BBC News Tax avoidance, secret mining deals and financial transfers are depriving Africa of the benefits of its resources boom, ex-UN chief Kofi Annan has said. read more Read [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Campaign for Democracy (CD), a leading Nigeria pro-democracy organization, has criticized the recent killing of policemen in Borno and Nassarawa States, describing it as troubling and [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) has expressed strong opposition plans by the presidency to declare a State of emergency in three states: Borno, Yobe and [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York A military source told Saharareporters that unknown gunmen have just carried out an attack in Southern Kaduna. read more Read full story on author website »
By SaharaReporters, New York Harpostrophe Limited, a division of the TaijoWonukabe Group, has announced a competition for Nigeria Graphics Arts students to visualize and design a logo for Sonala Olumhense’s [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Pastor Tunde Bakare has called on all Nigerians of goodwill to unite, work together and pull their resources together to advance the course of justice, peace [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York General Muhammadu Buhari has vowed that members of the opposition will no longer be intimidated by the Federal Government. read more Read full story on author [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York Kidnappers in Nigeria yesterday night snatched the wife, daughter and driver of Supreme Court Justice Bode Rhodes-Vivour in Benin Edo State. read more Read full story [...]
The trial of high profile subsidy fraud suspect, Walter Wagbatsoma, was today rocked by another bombshell: that the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency [PPPRA], and the federal government's official accounting [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Ijaw Media Forum has called on President Goodluck Jonathan to declare a state of emergency in Borno, Bauchi and Yobe States as a way of [...]
A Lagos magistrate court today rejected a plea byan ex-pianist at Reverend Chris Okotie’s Ikeja-based Household of God Church to summon thecontroversial pastor for submission of a closed circuit TV [...]