By SaharaReporters, New York Popular Nigerian televangelist, Pastor Timothy Oluwole Obadare, is dead. read more Read full story on author website »

By SaharaReporters, New York The Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL) has warned President Goodluck Jonathan against increasing the price of petrol in the country. read more Read full story on [...]

Former Bayelsa State governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, may be paid billions of naira, the value of the assets seized from him after his conviction for money laundering. read more Read full [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has swiftly reacted to the summoning of the Chief Medical Director (CMD), Taraba State Specialist Hospital, Prof. Zakari Yusuf Aliyu, by [...]

By Citizen Reports A Lagos commercial driver, Mr. Kasali Quadri, was today arraigned before Justice Christopher Ayodeji Balogun of the Lagos High Court for the attempted murder of Justice E.A [...]

French police have carried out a raid on International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde's Paris home in connection with a probe into her handling of a high-profile scandal when she [...]

The Movement for Islamic Culture and Awareness (MICA), an association of Muslim professionals and undergraduates, has thrown its weight behind the calls for justice for Miss Aisha Alabi, a 12-year [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), says its Vice Chairman (South-east), Dr. Chudi Nwike, was kidnapped in Anambra State yesterday, and the kidnappers want N30million in [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York SaharaReporters has learned that Nigerian’s security forces in Kaduna town have since Tuesday afternoon been frantically working non-stop in an effort to preempt a series of [...]

A top Boko Haram operative Kabiru Sokoto was brought to court for formal arraignment today by the State Security Service (SSS). However, the absence of the judge at the Federal [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York SaharaReporters has learned that most of the nearly 170 passengers traveling in a huge boat are feared dead in a disaster earlier Tuesday. The boat reportedly [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York SaharaReporters has learned that a female police officer in Kano was shot and killed early on Tuesday. A source with the Kano State Police Command told [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, who is the spokesman of the Joint Task Force in Maiduguri, has asserted that the personal threats of Boko Haram will not [...]

Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) today said 9 bodies were recovered from a capsized boat some 40 nautical miles from the coast of Calabar in Cross River State. read [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York The Kano state Police command has disclosed that 22 people died while 65 were injured in yesterday’s two suicide bomb attacks in a motor park which [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York President Goodluck Jonathan says he will definitely raise gas prices again, but will “discuss” with the public the easiest way to do it.   read more [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York The Joint Task Force (JTF) in Maiduguri said today that a remote-controlled Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted by terrorists and targeted at JTF patrol vehicles killed [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York The Federal High Court today in Abuja declared the policy of deregulation to be unconstitutional, illegal, null and void, and ordered the government, from now on, [...]

By Lawal Danjuma Adamu, Kano A suicide bomber targeting luxury buses full of passengers detonated a car bomb at a busy motor park in Kano yesterday, killing dozens of people [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York Three sources within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) today confirmed to SaharaReporters that  Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State and his Delta State counterpart, Emmanuel Uduaghan, [...]

At least twenty people were confirmed killed in a bomb explosion today in New Road Motor Park in the predominantly christian neighborhood of Sabon Gari in Kano. SaharaReporters learned this [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York Malam Kachalla, a school teacher at, Ruwan Zafi in Maiduguri, was shot dead this morning in the school by Boko Haram terrorists, the Joint Task Force [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York At least five people are reportedly killed in a bomb explosion today in New Road Motor Park in the predominantly christian neighborhood of Sabon Gari in [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York The Afenifere group has blasted a former national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ahmadu Ali, for denigrating Yorubas. read more

By SaharaReporters, New York It has emerged that troubled airline Aero Contractors, which suspended all of its flights last week, may be in deeper trouble than was previously revealed to [...]

President Goodluck Jonathan calls them ghosts. But a French businessman and an Islamic activist is travelling down to Nigeria in April to meet leaders of the Islamic terror groups, the [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York The Niger Delta University (NDU) chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has demanded an urgent review of the tax rates recently introduced by [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York As the controversy rages over the state pardon granted to former Governor Diepreye Solomon Peters Alamieyeseigha, SaharaReporters has learned from US court records that two sitting [...]

By SaharaReporters, New York The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) has called on the Inspector General of Police to investigate urgently the alleged linkage between the Peoples Democratic Party [...]

The Obama administration on Friday threatened to cut off aid to Nigeria or even sanction the African country after the government of President Goodluck Jonathan pardoned a former governor accused [...]