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Kidnappers of President Goodluck Jonathan’s cousin, Chief Inengite Nitabai have contacted the family to demand a ransom of N500m. The septuagenarian was kidnapped on Sunday by 10 armed men who laid siege on his compound at Otuoke in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, robbed his wife of a sum of N400,000 and then […]

Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Doyin Okupe has described the Boko Haram Islamist sect as a very serious enemy of the state. The sect masterminded the killing of at least 32 people on Wednesday in Madagali and Michika Local Government Areas of Adamawa State in three separate attacks during […]

Gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram Islamist sect almost felled Governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako and Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Hon. Umar Fintiri with bullets on Friday. The incident occurred in Shuwa town, in Michika Local Government Area of the state, where Nyako and some state officials were […]

At least 32 people have been murdered in three separate attacks in northeastern state of Adamawa in Nigeria.  According to authorities, the attacks, which included one on a theological college, occurred very late on Wednesday — a day after the attack on the Federal Government College Buni Yadi, Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe State, […]

 Family of late Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi has asked to be left out of the list of centenary awardees to be honoured as part of activities celebrating the country’s 100 years of amalgamation. Gani Fawehinmi was listed as one of the great Nigerians of the 100 years to be honoured, in his […]

President Goodluck Jonathan has urged heads of other countries to join forces with Nigeria in stamping out terrorism from the country, the continent, and the rest of the world. Speaking on Thursday on the occasion of the Centenary Conference themed Human Security, Peace and Development: Agenda for the 21st Century, Jonathan emphasised the importance of […]

Speaker Aminu Tambuwal of the Federal House of Representatives on Wednesday condemned the continuous attacks on states in the north-eastern part of the country. According to Tambuwal, the situation is getting out of hand and Nigerians are getting tired of excuses for the inability of the government to quell these attacks. Describing the attack on students of […]

Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon on Wednesday condemned Tuesday’s massacre of students of the Federal Government College, Buni Yadi in Yobe by gunmen believed to be members of the Boko Haram islamist sect. Speaking via a statement issued in New York, Ki-Moon condoled with families of the victims and expressed hope that the […]

The amalgamation of the southern and northern protectorates of Nigeria by Lord Frederick Lugard in 1914 was not a mistake, rather a divine act of God, President Goodluck Jonathan has said. Speaking in a centenary address to the nation on Wednesday, Jonathan insisted that the country’s diverse people were ordained to live together, notwithstanding the […]

Barely two weeks after the Federal House of Representatives called on Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen. Kenneth Minimah to relocate to Maiduguri, the Borno State capital due to increasing attacks by the Boko Haram sect, the Senate on Wednesday re-emphasised the call for the army chief to temporarily relocate to the state capital. The Boko Haram […]

Officials of the Police and the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) have arrested Indian neurosurgeon, Dr. Raju Bhuvaneswara Basina for operating without a practice licence. The Police from Apo Resettlement Division arrested the 53-year-old on Monday in Abuja at Asokoro District Hospital in the Federal Capital Territory, as part of MDCN’s renewed clampdown […]

Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Samuel Adesina is dead. He died on Tuesday at the St Nicholas Hospital, Lagos, after a protracted but undisclosed illness. He was aged 56. A member of the Labour Party (LP), the speaker, who represented Odigbo State Constituency 2, was said to have been sick for about […]