Category: Nigeria News

 President Goodluck  Jonathan on Friday joined other world leaders in commiserating with King Salman Ibn Abdulaziz and the people of Saudi Arabia on the death of King Abdullah Ibn Abdulaziz....

Reacting to the proposal by the National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki, for a postponement of next month’s polls, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Thursday that...

 Despite the presentation of the statement of result of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), by his school, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)...

The Nigerian economy added a total of 349,343 jobs in the third quarter of 2014 (Q3 2014), the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Thursday. According to the latest...

Nigeria’s current military strategy for defeating Boko Horam is unlikely to succeed, analysts have warned, with the international community largely powerless to defeat the increasingly rampant Islamist group. Corruption inside...

Niger Republic’s Foreign Minister, Mohamed Bazoum, on Thursday said African nations threatened by Nigeria’s Boko Haram sect would seek the United Nation’s Security Council’s authorisation for a multinational force to...

 The remains of President Goodluck Jonathan’s younger sister, Mrs. Nancy Jonathan-Olei, will be interred on Friday. She passed away on Sunday, January 4, 2015. Late Jonathan-Olei is to be buried...

 The North-west Zonal office, National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA on Thursday said it recorded a total of 44, 398 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in 2014. The agency’s Zonal Coordinator, Malam...

The Lagos State Government on Thursday disclosed that it had instituted a legal action against the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its affiliate, Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN), for allegedly...

A non-governmental group, the Northern Coalition for Democracy and Justice (NCDJ) on Thursday said it had commenced moves to file a case against presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress...