The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Iyorchia Ayu, on Saturday led four former governors and members of the party’s National Working Committee to meet with ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo at his residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State. It was gathered that members of the main opposition party arrived at ...

  Seriki Fulani in Ibarapaland, Alhaji Saliu Abdulkadir, who was evicted from his Igangan residence this day last year says the daring nature of Sunday Adeyemo, a Yoruba youth leader better known as Sunday Igboho, is why he is opposed to his release. The evicted Sarkin Fulani who has relocated ...

  Fighting raged for a third day Saturday between the Islamic State group and Kurdish forces in Syria after IS attacked a prison housing jihadists, in violence that has claimed over 70 lives, a monitor said. The assault on the Ghwayran prison in the northern city of Hasakeh is one ...

  Players from the women’s football team in the Minawao refugee camp attend an Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) game.Players from the women’s football team in the Minawao refugee camp attend an Africa Cup of Nations (CAN) game. Young Nigerian refugees, who received tickets for the Nigeria-Sudan match, took a ...

  More than a dozen girls have been abducted by Boko Haram terrorists in their latest attack in a community in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State. The insurgents broke into the town on Thursday night after shooting in different directions. Civilians fled into the bush and surrounding villages ...

  A Senior Secondary School 2 student, identified as Umar Goni has been arrested by operatives of the Borno state Police Command for allegedly attempting to murder one of his junior colleagues. It was learnt that the incident happened behind the hostel of a popular private school, El-Kanmi College of ...

  Nigerians have called for justice and gross punishment of the alleged killer of Hanifa, a five-year-old pupil who was reportedly abducted by her teacher, Abdulmalik Tanko, and eventually killed after 47 days in captivity in Kano State. The child was returning home from school earlier in December when she ...

  Two factions of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa State reportedly engaged in a bloody fight on Thursday, January 20. It was gathered that the party members engaged in a brawl in Yenagoa, the state capital over the choice of candidate to contest the position of member of ...

  The Nigerian Governors’ Forum on Thursday commended the Nigerian Senate for re-amending the Electoral Act Amendment Bill and providing room for direct, indirect, and consensus options for nominating candidates for the various political parties in the country. In a communique issued after the meeting and signed by the Chairman ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Kaduna said he narrowly escaped being bombed near the Kawo bridge, while travelling to Katsina State in July 2014. Buhari is on a state visit to Kaduna State. Speaking at the newly constructed Kawo bridge executed by the Governor Nasir El-Rufai administration, Buhari ...