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
Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed at least 17 people and abducted dozens in a series of attacks in the central region of Nigeria’s north-east Borno State, the head of a local administration said on Sunday. The killings happened on … read more
Dominic Adesanya, the 23-year-old Nigerian who was on Wednesday night arrested by the United States Security Service officials for jumping the North Lawn fence of the White House has been charged with two counts of felony assault on a police … read more
A NEW single has set to be released in support of the international campaign calling for Nigerian militants to return over 200 women and girls kidnapped during its violent struggle against the government. Michelle John, a backing singer to some … read more
A Nigerian drug smuggler at Madrid’s international airport who started shivering after the cocaine bags he was carrying inside his body burst was left to die after airport authorities activated an emergency Ebola alert At 5pm on Saturday October 18th, … read more
When the first case of Ebola was discovered in Nigeria, Jeffrey Hawkins, the US consul-general in Lagos, said that an outbreak there could become an “apocalyptic urban outbreak”. “The last thing anyone in the world wants to hear are the … read more