Defence Headquarters on Monday announced the arrest of 120 Boko Haram insurgents in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, while organising burial of one of their commanders who was killed in an encounter with the military on Sunday. Read More via [...]

The military onslaught against the Boko Haram insurgents continued on Sunday with the killing of 14 more terrorists and recovery of seven vehicles and 13 telephone handsets, Defence Headquarters reported on Sunday. Read More via DAILY INDEPENDENT...

The noose around the Rivers State governor, Rotimi Amaechi, is being tightened every minute as it emerged during the week that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leadership had concluded plans to re-admit into its fold, Read More via DAILY [...]

By Ajibola Abayomi, Daniel Kanu, Wisdom Patrick, Lagos and Chesa Chesa, Stella Odueme, Abuja The Army, on Friday used jets and attack helicopters to bombard designated Boko Haram camps in their biggest military offensive since the Islamic insurgent [...]

By Tunde Opeseitan/Lagos A Federal High Court in Lagos, on Friday, sentenced the producers of My Pikin teething syrup to a total of 14 years imprisonment. However, a mild drama played out when one of the convicts collapsed midway into the delivery [...]

Over 19,000 certified illegal immigrants, mostly from West and North African countries, have been deported from Nigeria since the beginning of the Boko Haram insurgency. Read More via DAILY INDEPENDENT...

There was palpable tension in Maiduguri, Borno State capital, on Wednesday following Tuesday’s imposition of emergency rule on the state, alongside Yobe and Adamawa. Read More via DAILY INDEPENDENT...

Godswill Obot Akpabio, the Executive Governor of Akwa Ibom State is a lawyer and member of the prestigious set of 1988 of the Nigerian Law School. Called to the Nigerian Bar in 1988, he was into full time law practice before dabbling into politics [...]

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday night finally wielded the big stick over the lingering insecurity in some parts of the North, declaring a state of emergency on Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, some of the hotbeds of terrorists. Read More [...]

Opposition from powerful quarters notwithstanding, Rivers State Governor and Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF), Rotimi Amaechi, said on Sunday he was ready to offer himself for re-election as chairman of the Forum. Read More via [...]