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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...

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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...

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({}); Inibehe Effiong My Constitutional Law lecturer in the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Dr. Imo Udofa used to tell us during lectures to talk law. He used to be irritated when law students departed from the law and based their answers to his questions on considerations other than law. I have read and listened to the...

UNIMED's pioneer students during matricualtion Candidates that have picked the University of Medical Sciences, UNIMED, Ondo for the 2016/2017 admission screening exercise are being screened at the Faculty of Science, MIS building, Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo city, Ondo State. The Chairman of the Curriculum and Examination Committee of UNIMED, Professor Adeseye Arogunjo said the exercise kicked-off about three months...