President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the partnership between the African continent and France has yielded fruits in so many positive ways but that France can do more to help Africa overcome its challenges. In a statement issued at the 27th ...

The President elect of Ghana Nana Akufo-Addo, visiting Nigeria for the first time as President elect, attended the Imo Thanksgiving Day, yesterday, 19 December 2016. The President elect decided to stay on for the ceremony which took place in Owerri.

Still smarting from his indiscretion and colossal psychological blow to the war against terrorism in Nigeria, President Goodluck Jonathan caused to be circulated a statement through his spokesman, Reuben Abati, that he was “fully aware” that former governor ...

Parents of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls have said that even though it is 98 days since their daughters were abducted from their school by Boko Haram gunmen, they still hoped they would not have to spend 100 days in the captivity of the insurgents, before ...

African champions, Nigeria will officially kick start their World Cup campaign tomorrow against Iran in Curitiba, Brazil. Nigerian fans and analysts alike are anxiously waiting to see what the outcome of the encounter would be like. With South American giant, ...

The Emir of Gwoza, Alhaji IDrissa Timta is feared killed in an ambush attack on his convoy some few hours ago while traveling to Gombe for the burial of the late Emir of Gombe. He was driving in the same car with his counterpart, the Emir of Uba, Alhaji ...

Following the state of insecurity in Nigeria due to the activities of the Boko Haram sect, Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (rtd) has stated that nobody in the country should be allowed to breakup Nigeria. Gen. Danjuma, who spoke yesterday in Lafia, Nasarawa State, ...

Voicing out his shock and sadness after a bomb attack at a bus station near the Nigerian capital of Abuja claimed dozens of lives, United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon on Monday night called on the President Goodluck Jonathan-led ...

Voicing out his shock and sadness after a bomb attack at a bus station near the Nigerian capital of Abuja claimed dozens of lives, United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon on Monday night called on the President Goodluck Jonathan-led ...

Nigeria will today be declared Africa's largest economy as a result of the rebasing of its economy. Sources close to the Ministry of Finance and the National Bureau of Statistics said the minister of finance and coordinating minister for the economy, Dr Ngozi ...

Four applicants who sat for job test of the Nigeria Immigration Service admitted at the Rivers Government owned Braithwaite Memorial Hospital have been discharged. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that a stampede at the Liberation stadium, Port ...

Since the Boko Haram insurgency broke out in the North-East, health workers in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states have seen an astronomical rise in the number of patients they attend to on a daily basis, tasking everyone to their limits. MOHAMMED ISMAIL ...

Members of the Borno State youth vigilante known as Civilian-JTF came out as heroes in yesterday's defeat of Boko Haram in Maiduguri, Borno State capital. JTF members stated that they had counted at least 207 corpses of suspected members of Boko ...

The Northern Elders' Forum has said it warned President Jonathan on how to tackle the Boko Haram insurgency before it escalated to its current state, but the president ignored its advice. The forum also said the national conference which is expected to kick ...