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The United States has deployed 80 American military personnel to Chad to assist in the search for more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram last month, President Barack Obama told Congress on Wednesday. Obama wrote in a letter to House Speaker, John Boehner, and Senate President, Pro Tempore ...

The Islamist group Boko Haram has been accused of killing 17 people in an attack on a village in north-east Nigeria, close to where hundreds of schoolgirls were seized. This�comes a day after 118 people died in the Jos twin bomb blasts. In the latest attack, BBC reports that Boko ...

Mary Paul Lalai, one of the mothers of the abducted teenagers of Chibok in Borno State is dead. A member representing Chibok constituency in the State House of Assembly, Aimu Fonan disclosed that she died on hearing the shocking news of the abduction of her daughter. �She collapsed and died ...

Eyewitness said the explosions shook the entire area causing major panic in the area. The bombs were primed to inflict maximum casualties as they exploded few minutes apart. Over 200 people were killed, up from the official 72 dead released earlier by government sources, as the two apparent car bombings ...

The President has released a press statement condemning the bomb blast that happened yesterday afternoon at Terminus market in Jos. President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan strongly condemns the bomb blasts in Jos, Plateau state, today, describing the perpetrators of this tragic assault on human freedom as cruel and evil. �He has ...

A heavy bombing has been reported and confirmed in Plateau State, Jose to be precise. The bombing reportedly went off around 2:55pm today 20th May 2014. The sad event happened at�Ahmadu Bello Way where the GSM market is located which is densely populated. No words on the number of casualties ...

    Last night, Presidential spokesman Reuben Abati tweeted pictures he made everyone believe were of ‘Nigeria’s committed & patriotic troops” already in action and ready to engage Boko Haram over abducted Chibok schoolgirls. Well, turns out one of the pictures is actually from 2012 and not of the troops ...

An unidentified�trader�was said to have lost huge sums of�money�buried�in her shop to the fire incident that razed Daleko Market, Mushin, Lagos State on Sunday.A Punch�journalist�could see the huge hole in�the shop�where�the money�was said to have been�buried.One of the traders, said the�trader�was in the habit of keeping her�money�in the�underground, instead of ...

A British surveillance jet which was on its way to Nigeria to help in the search for missing Chibok girls reportedly broke down in Senegal due to unspecified technical problems.UK Ministry of Defense released a statement ……. “A technical fault which has delayed the Sentinel aircraft on its way to ...

Reuben Abati reveals pictures of ‘Nigeria’s committed and patriotic troops’ ready to engage terrorists of notorious Sambisa forest to #BringBackOurGirls. Well done guys

  The Nigeria Police just published this on their website: The Police in Kano today, 19th May, 2014, about 9:00am averted what could have been another devastating bomb blast in the ancient city of Kano. Kano Police operatives, acting on intelligence, tracked and recovered a Mitsubishi Station Wagon car, ash ...

A�committee at the on-going National Conference is suggesting for all unemployed graduates in Nigeria to earn a monthly allowance equivalent to the allowance of members of the National Youth Service Corps, which is N19,800. Punch reports that the conference’s Committee on Law, Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Reform made the ...

On April 14th many lost their lives in the unfortunate Nyanya Bomb blast..While we may have moved on,there are those still in pain over the gruesome killing of their�loved ones.One of such people is Lydia Nwange, who sells okpa (Bambara groundnut), at the park.She watched her 15 year old daughter ...

General Muhammadu Buhari has distanced himself from one �Mohammed Buhari” arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for scamming a woman, Mrs Florence Nwokocha, of N20 million in a ponzi scheme. �A statement issued by the General through Com Jasper Azuatalam, Chairman of the “Buhari Vanguard” stated that the ...

Mohammed Buhari, an adopted son of former Military Head of State and APC Chieftain Mohammdu Buhari has being arrested by men of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly defrauding a businesswoman, Mrs Florence Nwokocha, to the tune of N20million, Sahara Reporters reports. According to SR, Mohammed, who ...

A bomb blast has been reported in Kano with no fewer than 10 persons feared dead.It went off �at about 9:30 pm at a drinking joint on Gold Coast road, Sabon Gari ,a Christian dominated area.. According to PM news, an eyewitness counted about 50 bodies while Channels TV puts ...

15-year-old Baba Goni was part of a vigilante group who saved two of the abducted Chibok girls,raped,beaten and left to die in the bush ..Baba who was once abducted and lived with Boko Haram for 2 years told his story as written by Babara Jones of mailonline �. Their faces ...

The Principal of Government College, Makurdi Benue State,�Godfrey Ugudu, on Saturday said the school has received letters from Boko Haram sect threatening to attack the school. Ugudu, who announced this at a news conference in Makurdi today says�the school received two letters which had the same content on 14 May. ...

It was reported that the president was visiting Chibok today but changed plans to attend a security summit in Paris And this led to a lot of criticisms . Media spokesperson to the President took to his twitter page to clear the story. He said GEJ never had any plans ...

Shettima has asked President Jonathan to negotiate with Boko Haram men if that is what it will take to release the abducted Chibok girls. Governor Shettima made this remark during an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour last night. “The issue of not negotiation with the terrorists � it’s out of ...