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He said it in a speech delivered on his behalf by the FCT minister, Olajumoke Akinjide, to a team of #BringBackOurGirls campaigners, led by a former Minister�of Education, Oby Ezekwezili….. He said �It is wrong and most unfair to suggest that there was a slow�reaction�to this kidnapping. As Commander-in-Chief, Mr. ...

The Defence Headquarters has released a statement denying the by a Kaduna-based cleric, Dr. Ahmad Gumi, that there is genocide going on in Borno where security forces/vigilante groups round up young men and kill them in a field for allegedly being Boko Haram members. The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has found ...

These are some faces of the students of University of Jos who lost their lives in that unfortunate �bomb�blast�two days ago.Their school mates circulated the�photos�.Among them are Mike Ogbole ,Milli, Vivian, Lydia, Francisca . May their souls rest in peace

  Renowned�Muslim cleric, Dr. Ahmad Abubakar Mahmud Gumi, shared these disturbing photos�early morning today�on his Facebook page and according to him, allegedly, these are civilians rounded up in a genocide in Borno State. He is asking for this crime to not go unpunished, that the international community should institute an ...

After the infamous video where the first�lady�was weeping over the missing Chibok girls, a statement attributed to Wole Soyinka read When you marry an illiterate woman as a wife, you will definitely make stupid decisions like jonathan’ In a�new release�by him, he says he never said anything like that … ...

Deborah Peter a�15 year old girl�from Chibok survived the Boko Haram slaughter of her�family in2011 after witnessing her dad and brother killed and asked to lie between their corpses .She told her story to U.S. House lawmakers ,House Foreign Affairs Committee�on Wednesday “My name is Deborah Peter and I am ...

Michael Olukoya, the president of Nigeria Union of Teachers has directed all its members across the country to sit at home today, Thursday, May 22, 2014 in protests of the over 200 missing chibok school girls. Mr Micheal Olukoya also said 173 teachers have been killed in Borno and Yobe ...

Ahmed Atiku, one of the sons of former vice-president Atiku Abubakar recently graduated from the American University of Nigeria, Yola, Adamawa State, which is run by his father. He’s pictured above receiving his certificate from his dad.

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 ...