The Federal Government has begun initiatives aimed at stopping the insurgents’ capacity to recruit new members. One of such initiatives is the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Programme i... Read more
Violence is strongly rearing its ugly in the political space in Rivers State. The Rivers State Police Command said it had received a report of an attack on the All Progressives Congress offi... Read more
FORMER Federal Commissioner for Information and South South leader, Chief Edwin Clark, wants the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to expel the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo... Read more
West African leaders will seek authority next week from the African Union to create a multi-national force to fight Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist insurgents, Ghanaian President John Ma... Read more
The Nigerian military on Friday dismissed the Cable News Network, CNN’s report on the army as another orchestrated campaign to smear its image. The CNN had aired footage of interviews with i... Read more
Alex Malarkey, seen here in a 2009 photo, has written an open letter saying that events described in the bestseller The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven were made up. JOHN KUNTZ/The Plain Deale... Read more
Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, on Thursday accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of planning to foist the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Major-Genera... Read more
State by state of eligible voters STATE No. ABIA 1,396,162 ADAMAWA 1,559,012 AKWA IBOM 1,680,759 ANAMBRA 1,963,173 BAUCHI 2,054,125 BAYELSA 610,373 BENUE 2,015,452 BORNO 1,934,079 CROSS RIVE... Read more
An Abuja-based legal practitioner and chieftain of the Enugu State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Onwurah Aniagboso, has dismissed a media report accusing the PDP of vi... Read more
The young Malian supermarket employee Lassana Bathily who helped hostages during one of last week’s Paris terrorist attacks is to get prompt French nationality. The fast-tracked... Read more