The Federal Government of Nigeria has withdrawn all charges of forgery brought against the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, his deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, and two others. Mr. Aliyu Umar, the lead prosecuting counsel on Friday, told Justice Yusuf Halilu ...
Two Niger Delta militant groups have threatened to confront the Federal government in battle, should it fail to release the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Radio Biafra Director, Nnamdi Kanu. The groups known as the ...
Some top officials of the Civil Service have been dismissed by the Federal Government for extorting money from 400 applicants and offering them employment illegally. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, made the disclosure on Saturday in ...
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai has said, the Boko Haram sect have been largely defeated by Nigerian Troops. He said this over the weekend, while commending the Army for crushing terrorism in the North-East. Buratai, who was ...
The Federal Government has accused MTN of hosting Radio Biafra transmitters, in Enugu and Anambra State respectively. Radio Biafra had previously been accused of spreading secessionist agenda and campaigning for the carving out of a Biafra Republic from Nigeria. According to the Federal Government, the installation of the ...
ABUJA – Following the fresh six-count charges filed by the Federal Government of Nigeria against the Director of Radio Biafra and leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, a federal High Court judge, presiding over the case ...
The Federal Government has declared December 25 and 26 as public holidays to mark Christmas, while January 1, 2016, New Year day, to usher in the coming year.
The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has protested the inclusion of Nigeria, on the list of countries to fight the Islamic State (ISIS), by Saudi Arabia. Acccording to reports, Saudi Arabia was building a coalition of 34 Muslim/Arab countries to ...
Shuaibu Usman, magistrate of the chief magistrate court, Wuse zone 2, Abuja, on Wednesday discharged Nnamdi Kanu, director of Radio Biafra and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), on all counts of criminal conspiracy and ownership of an ...
The United Nations AIDS (UNAIDS) programme in Nigeria said it would partner the Federal Government in domestically sourcing funds and drugs for the control of HIV/AIDS in the country. The Country Director of UNAIDS, Dr Bilali Camara, made this known ...
Enjoying a chilled cider in a hotel pool bar, former Nigerian militant leader Ebi John has a simple message for President Muhammadu Buhari – keep paying my men or risk a new insurgency in the Niger Delta. Tensions have been ...
The administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is “talking with Boko Haram” over the release of nearly 300 girls abducted by the insurgents in April 2014. But Femi Adesina, special adviser to the president on media and publicity, who made the ...