News From Nigeria

The European Union and the United States have denounced the death sentences handed to deposed president Mohamed Morsi and more than 100 others by an Egyptian court. The court on Saturday delivered the death sentences for their role in a mass jailbreak ...

Representative of The Defense Headquarters, Gen Chris Olukolade has conveyed a letter to the convener of the Bring Back Our Girls group, Dr Oby Ezekwesili and different individuals from the group, Mrs Hadiza Bala Usman and Bukky Shonibare, speaking to ...

More than 3,900 people, including 1,650 migrants, have been arrested in South Africa during a police crackdown following April’s deadly xenophobic violence, authorities have said. “We are satisfied that we have stabilised the situation and further loss of life has ...

South Africa has repatriated 5,645 foreigners since the end of xenophobic attacks in late April, the government said yesterday. A Minister in the Presidency, Jeff Radebe, who said this in a statement, added that the foreigners chose to leave South ...

A few days ago a couple of foreign  media including BBC, AFP and Daily Mail distributed a story asserting a Nigerian eatery in Anambra was close down for cooking human fresh flesh. The Anambra State Police Command reacted to the ...

The National Assembly bureaucracy has asked members of the House of Representatives to pack all their personal belongings out of their offices latest Monday, May 18 (today), with just 17 days to the end of their tenure. Findings by The ...

The Kaduna State Council of Chiefs drove by HRH, the Emir of Zazzau, Alh Shehu Idris paid a graciousness visit to President-elect  General Buhari in Abuja today May 17th. More pics bellow.

With shallow graves of unveiled bones, rivers of shed blood, wounded homes and don’t-ask-for-my-dad babies of the living martyr mothers of Sambisa, it is a tale that will never be untold. Nigeria’s bloody six years; the never ending cold days ...

The Islamic State jihadist group has captured the central Iraqi city of Ramadi in its entirety amid disputed claims from US and local officials, according to Monday’s media reports. A day earlier in neighboring Syria, US special forces killed a senior ...

A shooting incident in the southern US state of Texas has led to a number of fatalities, local police said on Sunday.    Police officers from several cities and deputies from the McLennan County Sheriff’s Office were surrounding the Twin Peaks Restaurant, ...