The atmosphere in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital was charged yesterday as news filtered in that abducted school girls from Chibok may be released today, Leadership Newspaper reports. According to the report, the heightened optimism is as a result of … read more
A Connecticut elementary school in US was on Tuesday sued by a Nigerian father, because his 7-year-old daughter was discriminated against and banned from school for 21 days based on unreasonable fears she might have Ebola. The little girl Ikeoluwa … read more
Nigeria have been given until Friday to sort out a legal quagmire involving the country’s football federation (NFF) in what FIFA described as a “last opportunity to avoid a lengthy suspension”. FIFA said that if a federal court order, which … read more
It’s almost unfathomable: that soldiers in Nigeria’s military may be working as moles for Boko Haram, giving the terrorist group vital information about the military’s strategies and tactics. That’s what the Nigerian military is claiming and they’ve arrested those soldiers … read more
We think this country has bigger issues to address…. Nigeria is taking Coca-Cola to court for allegedly refusing to comply with orders from the Consumer Protection Council over two half-empty cans of Sprite. Attorney General Mohammed Bello Adoke filed suit … read more
Nigeria, Sub-Saharan Africa’s largest economy has fallen 12 places to 118th in the global gender equality ranking, according to the, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2014, launched today. Sub-Saharan Africa, meanwhile, boasts three countries in the top 20 … read more
Human Rights Watch Monday said it has found that Nigerian girls abducted by the Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, were being forced to convert, marry their captors and endure physical and psychological labour. Releasing a reported account of the disturbing … read more
GUNMEN have attacked two Germans, shot one dead and abducted the other in Ogun State. The two victims whose names were not immediately known were said to be travelling to Ogbere in Ijebu East Local Government of the state when … read more
The rising spate of insecurity in Bayelsa state heightened Friday as gunmen, suspected to be sea pirates, carried out attacks on barges and boats along the Nembe waterways in Bayelsa, abducting six oil workers and four policemen. The pirates also … read more
The horrific abuse suffered by girls snatched by terror group Boko Haram has been revealed in a report. Victims told Human Rights Watch how they were forced into marriage, raped and made to fight or carry ammunition in military operations. … read more