Category: Africa

Lagos — The last has not been heard on last Friday's bomb attacks in Abuja during Nigeria's independence anniversary celebrations which killed 12 persons and injured 36 others, as the...

Nigeria made history on October 1, when its caterers build and unveil the world’s largest cake. The 65,000kg cake, was unveiled at the National Stadium, Abuja, and was intended  to...

Let me start by condemning in strongest terms, the car bomb blast, which occurred during the 50th anniversary celebration of our independence, on 1st October 2010, few meters away from...

Abuja, Nigeria - Despite the security breaches arising from the two bomb blasts and an accidental discharge from a policeman in Abuja, the federal capital, Nigeria Friday put on one...

Musicians sing it. Newspapers carry it. The radios and televisions carry it too. It is a very powerful but short sentence: Run, Goodluck run! The ordinary meaning of the word...

The Federal Republic of Nigeria (Republik Federaal bu Niiseriya, Republic nde Naigeria, Republik Nijeriya and Ijoba-Apapo Orile-ede Naijiria) as all our people would call it, celebrates her 50th year Independence...

All peoples of the world from time to time celebrate one feast or the other in commemoration of some important and significant events in their lives or in honour of...

President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday called on Nigerians to join hands with the government in the socio-political development of the country as Nigeria marks 50 years of nationhood. Speaking shortly...

Pope Benedict XVI has congratulated Goodluck Jonathan, the federal government and all Nigerians on the occasion of our country’s 50th Independence Anniversary celebrations. A personal congratulatory message from the Pope...

PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigeria deployed hundreds of soldiers to a town in lawless Abia State on the fringes of the Niger Delta on Thursday to hunt down an...