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There’s currently confusion and panic in Karu and Nyanya areas of Abuja after reports�that suspected Boko Haram members hijacked a schoolbus this morning�and kidnapped school children went viral. I hear anxious parents have even withdrawn their wards from schools there because of the scare.The�stories initially�had it that two schools were ...

Borno Governor’s wife, Nana Shettima, in a statement released by her office yesterday has explained why she did not attend Sunday’s meeting with Patience Jonathan over the abducted school girls. According to the statement, Mrs Shettima was preparing to visit parents of the abducted school girls yesterday in Chibok to ...

Piers Morgan expressed his displeasure at the response of the government to rescue the abducted girls. He has called on Europe and America to send their armed forces        

“I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah. There is a market for selling humans. Allah says I should sell. He commands me to sell. I will sell women. I sell women.” alleged Boko Haram leader�Abubakar Shekau said in a video (he spoke in Hausa) ...

  Sir Michael Agbolade Otedola, former Executive Governor of Lagos State and father of oil and & gas billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola, is dead. Sir Michael Otedola passed away this morning aged 88.�

Just in case you didn’t watch,�here are some of the trending comments President Jonathan made during the chat. On ASUP strike: “If you go on strike for one day, by law, you are supposed to forego your salary. It is only in Nigeria that a body will go on strike ...

Charly Boy’s father, Justice Chukwudifu Oputa has passed on. The former judge of the Supreme Court and Chairman, Oputa Panel, passed on peacefully today Sunday May 4th after recovering from a brief illness, the family announced this afternoon. He was aged 96. May his soul rest in peace, amen

A Statement signed by the President/Founder of Old Time Revival Hour, Kaduna & immediate-past chairman of Northern States Christian and Elders Forum (NOCSEF), an affiliate of CAN, Evangelist Matthew Owojaiye gave reason for the attack on Chibok girls’ high school. �Chibok Local Government is 90% Christians. Majority of the girls ...

Read her message below: Some of my relatives lived for decades in the North, in Kano and Bornu. They spoke fluent Hausa. (One relative taught me, at the age of eight, to count in Hausa.) They made planned visits to Anambra only a few times a year, at Christmas and ...

When Boko Harm struck over 2 weeks ago, abducting over 270 school girls in Chibok,Borno State,some were brave enough to escape.Punch caught up with two of them Sawok & Thabita Walse who gave their account of how they escaped.. Can you describe the attack on your school? Sawok: We were ...

The� photo (above) of one of the abducted,16 year old Comfort Bulus, has been released.� � In a chat with 99.3 Nigeria Info radio talk show host 4lah,� Comfort’s uncle Yahi Bwata, disclosed that Comfort was in school writing her WAEC exams when she was abducted. Yahi�gave a first hand ...

Mama peace made this statement during a meeting with wives of government functionaries, female Senators and Commissioners. “I do not mind being shot as long as they return our girls to us safely, we are tired of the kidnapping,” she said. According to her, First Ladies of other countries such ...

“I am moved to write about the current state of affairs in Nigeria. My first inclination was to write to the President but since all letters to him seem to elicit only open derision and even more stupidity from his inner circle, I have decided to address my letter to ...

Another Bomb Blast explosion� rocked Zuba Park ,Nyanya area(around the same place the last one occurred).An eye witness confirmed a Mazda car was used for the bombing and three suspects drove by, parked the car and started running. Meanwhile security sources claim the bomb may have accidentally gone off last ...

Nigerian police officers have allegedly fired gunshots at a crowd in Lagos staging a peaceful protest for the release of the abducted Borno school girls today. No injuries have been reported. The protesters converged at CMS Bus Stop in Lagos Island, and are now heading towards Victoria Island.

Yesterday, Mrs Kema Chinwe was reported to have demanded the evidence that the girls were abducted “How did it happen? Who saw it happen? Who did not see it happen? Who is behind this?” In a statement by the Governor’s Special Adviser on Media, Isa Gusau gives their reason for ...

Fire fighters are on Lekki Admiralty way after an accident involving a diesel truck burnt four cars .Cool Fm’s OAP Freeze witnessed it first hand and shared photo. Luckily no human life was lost

Most of the 234 Borno schoolgirls in Boko Haram captivity have been ferried abroad to Chad and Cameroon after they were married off to sect members on N2,000 bride price each, an elder told Daily Trust yesterday. The female students were taken from their hostels at the Government Girls Secondary ...

    An ex-student of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Mr. Ambrose Ezeanwani, who exposed a racket in the students’ bursary scheme in Delta state was handed over to men from the Delta State Government�yesterday afternoon after days of illegal detention in Lagos. Police officers in Sabo Station handed him ...

Minister of Petroleum, Dieziani Alison-Madueke, who has been in the middle of a 10bn jet scandal has secured a court injunction stopping the House of Representatives from further investigating her, Premium Times reports. Alison-Madueke had approached a federal high court in Abuja where she asked the court to restrain the ...