The Nigerian Army has alerted the public on the use of military camouflage by members of the Boko Haram sect to perpetrate violence and create an impression that the military is responsible. The Chief of Civil Military Affairs of the Nigerian Army, Major General Mobolaji Koleoso, told a news conference in Abuja on Friday that most of the terrors unleashed on civilians which are blamed on the military are pe ...

Suspected gunmen had on Thursday launched several coordinated bomb attacks on Daura municipal area of Katsina State. Several gunmen were killed during a clash with police in the remote town in Katsina state, army spokesman Ikedichi Iweha told Reuters, without giving specific figures or police casualties. Nigerian forces are trying to regain territory controlled by increasingly well-armed Boko Haram Islamist ...

Nigeria Customs Service in Kaduna has impounded 1,399 illegal bags of rice and textile materials which were smuggled into the country via the Jibiya boarder in Katsina state. The Comptroller, federal operations unit, Zone B of the Nigeria Customs Service, Kaduna, Amade Abdul revealed that the unit impounded the contraband and textiles materials while they were being smuggled into the country through Jibiya ...

Chairman of the South West Reconciliation Committee of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and governor of Katsina state, Ibrahim Shema has advised members of the party in the south west to sheathe their sword and work for the progress of the party in the zone ahead of the 2015 general elections. Addressing an inaugural reconciliation meeting of members of the party from the south west in Abuja, Governor Sh ...

The Acting Comptroller General of Immigration, Mr. Rilwan Musa has declared that the Immigration Service is devising strategies to operate a very stringent border regime to protect Nigeria from the insurgency issues and illegal migration that might occur from the crisis in Mali. At his first press conference Wednesday since assuming office on January 16th, Mr. Musa said Nigeria will run into terrible crisis ...

President Goodluck Jonathan today said no one in his administration will sleep unless polio is completely eradicated in the country. Dr Jonathan was speaking at the meeting of chairs, co-vice chairs, commissioners and ministers, with national observers at the launching of the Save One Million Lives Programme which took place in the Presidential Villa. The meeting which was succeeded by the meeting on polio ...

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies have launched an Emergency Appeal Fund to help the Nigerian Red Cross assist 10,000 people affected by the flood as part of efforts to cushion the effects of the flood ravaging some parts of the country. Addressing a news conference in Abuja, the Disaster Management Coordinator of the Nigerian Red Cross, Mr Umarabdu-Mairiga says the sum of ...

After weeks of search and  hiding, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula the man behind the anti-Islam film that sparked outrage across the Muslim world, has been spotted and arrested by the US authorities. Nakoula who is a 55 years old Christian, originally from Egypt was arrested on Thursday for violating term of his probation. Nakoula has been on probation after he was convicted for a 2010 federal check fraud that ea ...

Fourteen states have been pinpointed as states to be ravaged by floods between now and the 19th of August 2012. This was contained in a statement issued by the Deputy Director, Erosion, Flood and Coastal Zone Management Department of the Ministry of Environment, Dr. Morohunkeji Oyeleke. The states are Adamawa, Plateau, Sokoto, Jigawa, Borno and Gombe states. Others include Kebbi, Yobe, Taraba, Oyo, Zamfara ...

The Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) has directed teachers in all the states that are yet to implement the enhanced salary structure to begin indefinite strike action as soon as the schools resume for a new session in September. Addressing the media in Abuja, the President of NUT, Comrade Michael Olukoya said the teachers have ran out of patience, three years after an agreement  on the payment of the 27.5 p ...