An intelligence source in Niger said on Tuesday security had been tightened along the thinly populated border and military police were searching vehicles for Boko Haram fighters who might be fleeing the past week’s onslaught on their bases in Nigeria. … read more »

Igbo leaders make demands of the Federal Government while welcoming President Goodluck Jonathan, who was visiting the South-East, to Enugu, the capital of Enugu State. The Igbo leaders spoke through Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State on a day Jonathan … read more »

Jonathan had on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in three states, Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States. The mandatory two days required for the National Assembly to approve the emergency rule in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states elapsed on Thursday … read more »

The United States of America has expressed concern over the emergency rule declared by President  Jonathan  in Yobe, Adawama and Borno vis-a-viz the ongoing fighting in  the region and  urged the Military to use  restrictive force in their bid to rid … read more »

A retired professor of Political Science and Economics at Central State University, Wilberforce, Ohio, United States, Professor Ebere Onwudiwe, has been appointed Executive Director of Ken Nnamani Centre for Leadership and Development, Abuja. The scholar was the director of the … read more »

  OBAMA:  Thank you.  Thank you.  Thank you so much. Vice President Biden, Mr. Chief Justice, members of the United States Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow citizens, each time we gather to inaugurate a president, we bear witness to the … read more »

In KADUNA –The death toll in last Sunday’s bomb blast at St Andrew’s Anglican Church at the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, AFCSC, Jaji, Kaduna State has risen to 15 siad AVM Abdullahi Kureh   The Director, Nigeria Air … read more »

Nigeria’s First Bank will pursue an “aggressive” expansion strategy into next year as it seeks to tap into the growing consumer market in Africa’s most populous country, its chief executive said on Thursday. Bisi Onasanya told a conference call with … read more »

Boko Haram is waging an insurgency against President Goodluck Jonathan’s government with the avowed aim of reviving an ancient Islamic kingdom in majority Muslim northern Nigeria.   Styled on the Afghan Taliban, the sect’s purported leader Abubakar Shekau has said … read more »

Nigerian FG to challenge the ownership of the Bakassi peninsula at the International court of justice (ICJ). In a meeting scheduled for today the President Good-luck Jonathan has invited the nations top lawyers and members of the house and senate … read more »

WITH the prospect of getting loans locally no longer bright following a policy by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to shut out non-repaying debtors from further credit, airlines in the country are now considering finance options overseas to strengthen … read more »

If the answer to the above question is yes, then why is the federal government engaging in activities that might be interpreted to mean supporting a particular religion, in the country. Religion we all know is a very volatile area … read more »

Police in Nigeria, which faces an Islamist insurgent threat, ordered 24-hour security around all foreign embassies on Thursday after gunmen in Libya enraged over a film about the Prophet Mohammad killed the U.S. ambassador there. The American embassy in Abuja … read more »

Five months into his five-year jail term  in the United Kingdom, James Ibori, the former Delta State Governor, will on Monday, return to the Southwark Crown Court at 10 a.m. Ibori will appear in Courtroom 5 for the confiscation of assets hearing … read more »