Boko Haram

President Muhammadu Buhari has given himself a clean bill of health on issue of corruption, declaring that in all the positions he has held in the country, he has never been convicted of corruption. He made the declaration at the Abakaliki…

The Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has appealed to the Nigerian media not to break up the country by the urge to break news. Speaking as the special guest at a two-day Media Conference organised by the Nigerian Army,…

The President, Church of Brethren in Nigeria (EYN), Rev. Joel Billi, has called on the Federal and State Governments to expedite action on the reconstruction of places of worship destroyed by insurgents in North East. Billi made the appeal…

The United States Embassy in Nigeria has urged its citizens in the country to be more security conscious before, during and after the 2019 general elections. It raised the alarm that the ISIS in West Africa (ISWA) and Boko Haram terrorist…

Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) led government was working on a credible plan to get Nigeria out of poverty in spite of limited funds available to the country. Osinbajo…

Steve Nwosu For a change, I have decided to steer off the in-fighting in APC, the saboteurs of the PDP, the malaria-induced optimism of some of the smaller parties and the fact that the president is just setting up a presidential…

The Nigerian Army has given reasons why it invaded the headquarters and regional offices of Media Trust  in Abuja and Maiduguri, Borno State, saying the media outfit was divulging ‘classified military information’ and undermining national…

Troops and air strikes have killed more than 280 Boko Haram militants since the Nigerien Government started an operation against the group last week, the Defense Ministry said. Boko Haram has attacked Niger, Chad and Cameroon from its…

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says escalating attacks by non-state armed groups suspected to be Boko Haram are triggering new displacements in northeast Nigeria, especially Borno. OCHA said more than…

In 1844, the Revd Samuel Ajayi Crowther returned home to Yoruba land (now part of modern-day Nigeria). Twenty years earlier, he had been kidnapped and sold to European slave traders who were bound for the Americas. He was freed by an…