KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria’s top candidates on Saturday condemned the surprise last-minute decision to delay the presidential election for a week until Feb. 23, blaming each other but appealing to Africa’s largest democracy for…
Arrested kidnap kingpin, Chukwudemeje George Onwuamadike, also known as Evans has been sobbing over his detention with ‘common poor criminals’, in a police cell, The Guardian investigation has revealed. The kidnap kingpin, who was arrested…
A Rhode Island man was charged on four federal crime charges after being arrested earlier this month for allegedly duping a number of banks out of more than $100,000. Opeyemi Abdulahhi Orekan, a citizen of…
MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA — Police in Nigeria say two teenage female suicide bombers have been shot dead by troops as they tried to sneak into the northeastern city of Maiduguri. Borno State police spokesman Victor Isuku…
Following a video clip trending on social media on Wednesday, which showed two army officers brutalizing a physically challenged man for wearing a camouflage shirt, the Nigeria has said the officers in question has been…
Nobel Laureate Professor Wole Soyinka has vowed to keep his word to tear up his United States’ residency permit because Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency. Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has said that he…
Nigerian authorities should immediately release at least 11 journalists, bloggers, and media support staff detained in recent days across the country and stop harassing the media, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. “The impunity…
By: Olalekan Paul Ibrahim – Rural Reporters The wife of the Senate President, and founder of Wellbeing Foundation Africa, Mrs. Toyin Saraki, on August 3rd, 2016 Chaired a high level nutrition stakeholders meeting to commemorate…