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Dec. 31 | At least 11 people were killed in an explosion at a popular market in Nigeria’s capital Abuja late on Friday, witnesses and security sources said.
The blast occurred at Mammy market, close to the Sani Abacha barracks, a busy area where people congregate...
Dec. 25 | West African leaders said they would use “legitimate force” to remove Laurent Gbagbo from power in Ivory Coast if he does not agree to step down peacefully, a call that comes amid rising fears of violence.
At least 173 deaths have been...
Oct. 1 | The bomb explosions which occurred near the Ministry of Justice in Abuja, and which claimed several lives are a low, dirty and wicked act of desperation by criminals and murderers who do not wish Nigeria well.
Coming at a time that the world had gathered...
May. 26 | Niger’s military ruler Lieutenant-General Salou Djibo held talks with Nigeria’s new leader Goodluck Jonathan on his first foreign trip since taking to power in a coup in February.
Djibo paid his condolences over the death of late president...
May. 21 | NAN - Information Technology experts have called on the Federal Government to provide legislation for the implementation of Nigeria’s Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) plan.
A communiqué issued by the...
May. 6 | Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has been sworn in as President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
President Jonathan was sworn in in the morning of Thursday May 6 in the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Aso Rock Abuja,...
May. 2 | Cheeks are still flushed and wine glasses still raised at the dumping of Maurice Iwu, Nigeria’s criticised elections chief.
Accused of presiding over five years of massive electoral fraud, he is widely despised.
Elections are barely a year away...
Apr. 29 | Campaign posters endorsing Acting President Goodluck Jonathan for the 2011 presidential election have gone up at strategic points in the capital city Abuja, residents said on Saturday.
Jonathan, who was voted into office by parliament in February after...
Apr. 29 | Dr Jonathan swore in Professor Christian Otu Onyebuchi as Hon minister of Health and Mr Obadiah Ando, as Hon Minister of Water Resources, in a brief ceremony in the Council Chambers, Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday April 27.
The swearing in ceremony...
