By SaharaReporters, New York The Speaker of the Rivers State House of Assembly, Mr. Otelemaba Dan Amachree, says that the Commissioner of Police, Mbu Joseph Mbu, has unceremoniously withdrawn the [...]
The campaign for President Goodluck Jonathan’s re-election received a boost Thursday with the people of Urhobo ethnic nationality in Delta State threatening to march n*ked on the streets of Nigeria, [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Anti-Corruption Network (ACN) today escalated the war over the non-war against corruption in Nigeria by sending a petition to United States President Barak Obama, citing [...]
State governors have asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to sell over 78,000 excess laptops and webcams to them for distribution to secondary schools and promotion of computer literacy [...]
By SaharaReporters, New York The Nigerian Army yesterday formally commenced air and ground hostilities against Boko Haram under emergency regulations in thick forests in Sambisa, Borno State in an area [...]
The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon has called on all extremist groups in Nigeria to cease attacks on the northern part of the country. The UN scribe [...]
The Katsina State Government has began the disbursement of N35.8 million under its Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme to 6, 966 primary school girls in the state. Read full story [...]
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Nigeria’s army has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew across the north-eastern state of Adamawa to curb attacks by militant Islamists. It is the first… Read full story on author website »
Germany have included Sidney Sam for their upcoming friendlies against Ecuador and the United States, damaging Nigeria’s hopes of persuading the… Read full story on author website »
UMUAHIA-FOUR persons have been confirmed dead after a building under construction collapsed in Agbama Housing Estate, Umuahia, Abia state capital. Read full story on author website »
The Arewa Consultative Forum on Thursday 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 [...]
A High Court sitting in Abudu in the Orhionmwon Local Government Area of Edo on Thursday sentenced one Sunday Ilawe to death by hanging for stabbing his neighbour, Blessing Ehigie, [...]
SaharaReporters has gathered that telecommunication services in troubled Borno and Yobe states deteriorated noticeably this morning. read more Read full story on author website »
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 [...]
Nigeria has begun an offensive against Boko Haram Islamists, raiding camps in a remote northeastern park, while more than 2,000 troops have been deployed to retake territory seized by the [...]
President: Goodluck Jonathan Goodluck Jonathan inherited the presidency in May 2010 on the death of his predecessor, and went on to win elections… Read full story on author website »
… serious irregularities”. Nigeria is a big oil exporter, but violence and oil spills dog the industry ‘Decades’ to clean up Nigeria oil ‘Blood… Read full story on author website [...]
After lurching from one military coup to another, Nigeria now has an elected leadership. But the government faces the growing challenge of preventing… Read full story on author website »
By Anayo Okoli UMUAHIA – Seven persons were feared dead when a building under construction in Agbama area of Umuahia, the capital of Abia State collapsed yesterday night at about 8 [...]
Musawa (Katsina State) – The Committee on Prison Inmates Rehabilitation in Katsina State has released no fewer than 40 prison inmates, convicted on minor offences. The Chairman of the committee, [...]
by Isi Esene Fiery lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana has thrown his support for the institution of a state of emergency in the three northern states, Adamawa, Yobe [...]
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 [...]
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved a medium term debt management strategy to address the structure and level of the nation’s domestic and foreign debts. As part of [...]
New Orleans police arrested a man identified in connection with a shooting at a Mother’s Day parade in which 19 people were injured, authorities said late on Wednesday. Akein Scott, [...]
by Akan Ido Doyin Okupe, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs has said the reaction of the opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to the imposition [...]
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 [...]
