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Boko Haram: ‘Why we attacked the churches’

A purported spokesman for Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for Sunday’s attacks and threatened further violence. “We are responsible for…

Subsidy: Farouk Debunks Bribery Allegations

Ayorinde Oluokun/Abuja Farouk Lawan, the Chairman of House of Representatives Ad hoc Committee on fuel subsidy has denied reports that…

NUT counsels Ekiti govt on teachers’ assessment

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) on Sunday urged the Ekiti State Government to explore professional options in assessing the…

Footballer, Christian Obodo freed

The Nigerian police in Delta State on Sunday rescued Italy-based Super Eagles player Christian Obodo, who was kidnapped in Warri…

PDP sweeps council polls in Akwa Ibom

The Akwa Ibom Independent Electoral Commission on Sunday declared the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of Saturday’s local…

‘We prayed against death before the bombing’

Josephine Jacobson, a 63-year-old Deaconess of the Christ Chosen Church of God, said that Sunday’s suicide attack on the Church occurred just after the congregation…

Official: 5 die in Jos church bombing

Nigeria’s Special Task Force (STF) has confirmed five persons dead in the Sunday suicide bomb attack on a church in Jos…

Pastor of bombed church in critical condition

The Pastor of Christ Chosen Church of God, Monday Uzoka, his wife and two children are among the 52 victims affected by the suicide…

Ndoma-Egba decries bombings

The Leader of the Senate, Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, has raised alarm over the rate at which innocent lives are being…

Witness: Jos bomber posed as church member

Richard Jonah, a witness at today’s bombing of God Chosen Church in Jos, the central Nigerian state of Plateau, said…

Akpabio: I warned Dana Airline about crash

Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom state said on Sunday that he had earlier lodged a complaint with the management…

One dies in another church attack by Boko Haram

Gunmen suspected to be members of the militant Boko Haram has attacked christian worshippers at a church in Biu, Borno…

Akwa Ibom council poll a farce— APGA candidate

Obong Samuel Atang, a chairmanship candidate in Saturday’s local government elections in Akwa Ibom, has alleged  widespread irregularities in the…

Bomb rocks Jos church, scores feared dead

The Nigerian police in Plateau state have confirmed a bomb explosion at a church in the capital city of Jos.…

Obodo: Nigerian police vow rescue

Nigerian police on Sunday vowed to rescue international footballer Christian Obodo unhurt after he was kidnapped near the oil city…

Gunmen kill 2 cops, customs officer

Gunmen in Nigeria’s Kano city have killed two policemen and a customs officer, while two civilians wounded in the separate…

Copter crash kills Kenyan minister, 5 others

Kenyan Internal Security Minister George Saitoti was killed on Sunday alongside a junior minister and four others after a police…

Abuja Airport runway lights rectified

Some of the runway lights at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja which were out of order on Friday night…

Boko Haram cancels Nigeria’s council polls

The Borno Government has ruled out the possibility of conducting local government polls in the state soon because of security…

Liberia shuts borders with Ivory Coast

Liberia on Saturday closed its border with Ivory Coast, a day after seven UN peacekeepers from Niger and eight civilians…

ACN rallies for Oshiomhole, welcomes PDP’s Ihonvbere

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, national leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has urged the electorate in Nigeria’s Edo state…

Disaster averted on expressway triggers calls for truck ban

Some residents of Nigeria’s commercial city of Lagos have called on the state government to ban the movement of trailers…

Dana Air donates materials to victims of crash

Grounded Nigerian airliner, Dana Airline has donated relief materials to families affected by the Dana Air mishap of Sunday, June…

Nigerian abductors want 150k Euro for Obodo

Nigeria international Christian Obodo has been abducted in Warri, southern Nigeria, his family confirmed Saturday. The player’s family said Obodo,…

Nigerian Navy says officer died in Dana crash

The Nigerian Navy has confirmed that Commodore Datoru Abi-Kalio was among the 153 persons that lost their lives in Sunday’s…

2 journalists brutalised in Nigerian poll

Two journalists covering the council polls in Eket , Southern Akwa Ibom, were on Saturday brutalised by the Police at…

Workers lock out poly rector

Members of two staff unions of the Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, in western Nigeria have begun an industrial action over…

Sanusi Lamido honoured in Kano

MADUABUCHI NMERIBEH/Kano Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi was today turbaned the Dan Majen Kano…

7 Nigerien peacekeepers killed in Ivory Coast

Seven UN peacekeepers from Niger have been killed in an ambush in western Ivory Coast, in the first attack of…

Nigerian Suicide bomber kills 5

A suicide blast at the police headquarters in Nigeria’s restive city of Maiduguri on Friday killed at least one police…