Nigeria clashes leave 187 dead
... being waged by Boko Haram, the radical Islamist group blamed for scores of attacks in northern and central Nigeria since 2009. Conflicting reports have emerged of the fighting that broke out...
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... instead of city stores, while a smokers' rights advocate called it "government paternalism at its worst." LAGOS, Nigeria -- Fighting between soldiers and Islamic extremists in northeast Nigeria...
View ArticleNumber-saving comes to Nigeria mobile phone market
- To know what it is like to make a mobile phone call in Nigeria, ask anyone to turn out their pockets or upend their purses. One, two, three and sometimes even four phones tumble out into view, all...
View ArticleNigeria: Ban 'Shocked and Saddened' By Civilian Deaths in Nigeria Violence
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced shock and sadness today at reports of high numbers of civilians killed in Nigeria's Borno State following armed clashes there between Government forces and an...
View ArticleBan deplores civilian deaths in Nigeria violence
New York, Apr 23 : United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced shock and sadness Monday at reports of high numbers of civilians killed in Nigeria's Borno State following armed clashes there...
View ArticleClashes claim 185 lives in Nigeria border town: official
Up to 185 people were killed, 2,000 houses razed and 486 motorcycles damaged in clashes between the Nigerian military and the Boko Haram militant sect in a border town, according to the latest...
View ArticleOkonjo the Troublemaker
... rings in the new year with her family in suburban Maryland, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's cell phone doesn't stop buzzing. Nigeria's top finance official is waiting for a call from former U.K. prime...
View ArticleAt least 187 killed in Nigeria violence
Ayoung girl stands amid the burned ruins of Baga, Nigeria. Fighting between Nigeria's military and Islamic extremists killed at least 187 people in a fishing community in the nation's far northeast,...
View ArticleHoodlums invade church after 2-yr-old boy died in septic tank
TIMELY intervention of Mobile policemen in Akure, the Ondo state capital, last Sunday saved a Pastor from being lynched and his church set ablaze by some hoodlums protesting the death of a two-year-old...
View ArticlePPPRA to publish list of accredited products' suppliers
Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, is set to publish a list of accredited international companies that supply Nigeria with refined petroleum products, as part of ongoing measures to...
View ArticleFG gets May 2 deadline in face-off with health workers
... competence and managerial expertise. Contributing, UCH branch of the Medical and Dental Consultants' Association of Nigeria, MDCAN, through its Chairman, Juwon Arotiba, said all professionals in...
View ArticleNigeria to probe army conduct in battle with Islamists
... fighting between security forces and Islamist militants in a remote part of the northeast. Photo - Reuters Kano: Nigeria is to investigate its army's conduct after clashes between troops and...
View ArticleDozens killed in fierce Nigeria gun battles
Dozens of people have been killed in fierce fighting between Nigeria's military and suspected Islamists after troops raided an insurgent hideout in the northeast, a government source told AFP yesterday.
View ArticleBoko Haram: Come up with solutions that 'll restore peace, Jonathan tasks...
President Goodluck Jonathan has charged members of the Presidential Committee on engagement with members of the Boko Haram Sect to come up with solutions that will restore peace in the troubled...
View ArticleWhy I relocated to Warri- Gov Uduaghan
... page, "Umeh Need Road Forum", UNRF. He expressed satisfaction with the pace of work by the contractor, Setraco Nigeria Limited, saying, asphalting of the road would commence in three weeks barring...
View Article10 feared killed, others missing in Benue
... havoc in the state considering the personalities involved in the power tussle. "Adamawa State is like the country Nigeria with many tribes, so the introduction of religion into politics is a threat...
View Article1,735, 720 candidates for UTME on Saturday
... a recent report by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has said that for Nigeria to meet the Universal Basic Education For All goal by 2015, it would have to...
View ArticleExecutive-Legislature friction strengthens democracy - Mark
The Senate President, Sen. David Mark said on Wednesday that disagreements between the executive and legislative arms of government were necessary ingredients for the strengthening of democratic...
View ArticleUNN student attempts suicide
Months after a student of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, committed suicide, another student of the institution has attempted to put an end to his life.
View ArticleVision 20: 2020 target, not realisable - Minister
Nigeria's vision of being among the 20 most industrialized nations in the World may no longer be realisable.
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