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(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); Nigeria's President, Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), to release the N10 billion recovered loot to the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). Director General of NBC, Mr. Modibbo Kawu revealed this in Abuja while addressing journalists on the forthcoming International Conference for African Broadcasters (AFRICAST). The fund was part of the proceeds from...

Here are the full names of the 21 Chibok Girls released by Boko Haram in a negotiation carried out by the Nigerian Department of State Security (DSS) and supported by the Swiss government and the International Red Cross. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); 1. Maryam Usman2. Jummai John3. Blessing Abana4. Lugwu Sanda5. Comfort Habila6. Maryam Basheer7. Comfort Amos8. Glory Mainta9. Saratu...

Source: State House, Abuja

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); Photo: AFP Founded in 2002, initially focused on opposing Western-style education - Boko Haram means "Western education is forbidden" in the Hausa language. Launched military operations in 2009. Thousands killed, mostly in north-eastern Nigeria, hundreds abducted, including at least 200 schoolgirls. Seized large area in north-east Nigeria, where it declared caliphate. Joined so-called Islamic State, now calls itself IS's "West...

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); President Buhari The spokesman for Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has tweeted confirmation of the Chibok girls' release. According to series of tweets by the senior special assistant to the President on Media & Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu, it read: Bring back our girls campaigner      Photo: BBC  "It is confirmed that 21 of the missing Chibok Girls have been released...

Twenty-one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram are freed, Nigerian government official tells the BBC. Details later. 

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); President Muhammadu Buhari will embark on an official visit to the Federal Republic of Germany from October 13 to 15, 2016. In Berlin, President Buhari, will confer with Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel on issues of shared interests between Nigeria and Germany, including further cooperation on security, the humanitarian situation of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and rehabilitation...

A former Ese-Odo Council Chairman and a former member House of Representative Hon Agboola Ajayi has emergd as the running mate of the APC governorship candidate, Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN. The Publicity Secretary of the APC, Abayomi Akinsanya  said that the choice of Agboola Ajayi was made following the report of the five-member screening Committee put in place by the governorship...

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); Laolu Akande (Rejoinder To Premium Times Recent Editorial Opinion: How Buhari Helped Nigeria Into Recession And How He Can Take Us Out Of It) I read your editorial on "How Buhari helped Nigeria into recession and how he can take us out of it" of September 27, with keen interest. It certainly makes for attentive reading and was written...

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); The EFCC on Tuesday 11th of October, 2016 arraigned a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Prince Benjamin Benedict Apugo before Justice Osiagor of the Federal High Court ,Umuahia Abia State on a three count charge bordering on obtaining N36.000,000.00 (Thirty Six Million Naira Only) by false pretence. Apugo pleaded not guilty to the charges...