Statement issued below. The Rivers State Government is concerned about the safety of Governor Amaechi who is right now being held hostage commando style by soldiers...
[AFP] Nigeria’s top military officer on Wednesday dismissed talk of a possible coup in Africa’s most populous nation, which is currently in the grip of a...
Mr Mike Omeri, the Coordinator, National Information Centre, said on Wednesday that the 486 people arrested by security operatives on Sunday, in Abia, were travellers. Omeri disclosed...
A High Court, siting in Abuja, on Wednesday discharged the case against Mohammed Abacha, son of late former military Head of State, General Sani Abacha, for...
The Adamawa State House of Assembly has commenced impeachment proceedings against the state governor, Murtala Nyako, and his deputy, Bala Ngilari. The move by the Assembly...
The presidency has dismissed claims by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that he was awaiting the approval of President Goodluck Jonathan to negotiate with Boko Haram for...
Borno state is now known to many as the centre for insurgents and even to a security agents it sends shivers to most of them as...
Police in Taraba State have said that 15 people were killed while 2,130 were displaced in the two-day inter-tribal conflict that pitted the Jukun and Hausa...
At least one person drowned and nine others rescued as a passenger boat capsized in Lagos a month after a passenger boat capsized under Bonny Camp bridge,...
An explosion ripped through a football viewing centre in Damaturu, northern Nigeria, on Tuesday, residents said, as fans gathered to watch the World Cup. Agency France-Presse reports...
Senator James Manager, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Niger Delta Development Commission, on Monday said any plan to scrap the Amnesty Programme for ex-militants will end the...
The people of Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State, where over 200 female students of the Government Girls’ Secondary School, GGSS, were abducted by Boko...
