A fierce exchange of fire between troops of the Nigerian Army and Boko Haram terrorists in Abadam (a village around the epicenter of hostilities in Borno) resulted in the death of seventeen people. According...

Different groups from Nigeria’s oil rich Niger Delta region including the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC), and the Niger Delta Peoples Professional Volunteer Force (NDPPVF) have warned the country’s...

President Muhammadu Buhari used on auspicious meeting yesterday with President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the on-going 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York to acquaint...

  A statement from the Benin Traditional Council (BTC) has revealed that His Royal Highness, Crown Prince Eheneden Erediauwa, who is the reigning Edaiken N’Uselu will formally ascend the throne...

  Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari says after listening to her husband, President Muhammadu Buhari address the   UN General Assembly yesterday,  she is more convinced about his intentions...

Former First Lady of Nigeria, Dame Patience Jonathan has threatened to drag the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to the African Commission on Human Rights if within 14 days it does not defreeze...

Borno State Commissioner for Education, Alhaji Inuwa Kubo has announced that schools in the state will re-open for academic activities next week. That will be over two years after Borno public schools...

Nigeria’s former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of manipulating events in the court sitting for the $15 million fraud allegation made against...

  Acclaimed social commentator and Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Matthew Kukah, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to stop his frequent recourse to blaming his predecessor for Nigeria’s economic...

Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki has restated his belief that the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari could do far better in its quest to revive the Nigerian economy by looking beyond...

The Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate, NDGJM, which has been carrying out attacks on oil pipelines in the upland parts of Delta State has blown up yet another oil facility. Yesterday, the NDGJM blew...

Erstwhile ‘super permanent secretary’ and Chairman of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Transition Committee, Ahmed Joda has described former Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as a professional...

Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III has claimed that armed cattle rearers who have been unleashing terror on people in different parts of Nigeria are not Nigerians. The violent nomads who are known...

Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff,  Lt.  Gen. Tukur Buratai disclosed during a courtesy visit to the Bayelsa State government house yesterday, the intention of the Buhari Administration to deploy...

The Independent National Electorarl Commission, INEC has just made a change in the date of the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Edo State. The Commission which has decided to shift the election date to...

The National Christian Elders Forum has condenmed what it described as the declaration by the Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar III, of September 12  as Sallah Day or Eid-El-Kabir public holiday....

Ekiti State governor, Ayodele Fayose has released a statement urging citizens of Edo State not to make the mistake of voting for an All Progressives Congress candidate in the forthcoming gubernatorial...

President Muhammadu Buhari is expected in Benin City today to campaign for the gubernatorial candidate of his party, the All Progressives Congress , Godwin Obaseki. The Edo State governorship elections...

Professor Chidi Odinkalu, former Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, has sounded a warning that the current state of affairs in Nigeria may make elections impossible in 2019. Should elections...

Brazil’s Senate has just voted to remove President Dilma Rousseff from office for alleged budget fraud by a 61-20 man count. This comes as a major blow to the Workers’ Party that has held...