The District Head of Izge, Mallam Bulama Apagu and Madagali Council Chairman, Mr. Maina Ularamu, Monday, said the death toll in Saturday’s Boko Haram attacks at Izge has increased from 100 to 121, following the retrievals of more bodies in destroyed houses, bushes and farmlands.

Mr Mike Omeri, the Director-General, National Orientation Agency (NOA), has called on Nigerians not to patronise a purported recruitment Website by the agency, describing it as a scam.

Mallam Aliyu Zubairu, a reporter with the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Yola, and his wife, Nazira , died in a midnight fire incident in Yola on Monday, the authority’s General Manager, Malam Adamu Yusuf, has confirmed.

The Senate President, Sen. David Mark, on Monday in Abuja said that women were underrepresented in all political structures in Nigeria.

The Supervising Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, on Monday presented letters of allocation for the N200 billion intervention fund to all public universities in the country.

The absence of an interpreter on Monday again stalled the trial before a Federal High Court, Lagos of a Portuguese woman, Roseangela Goncalves, charged with drug trafficking.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Monday, said that fasting and prayers are tools needed by leaders to lead their people saying he fasts and prays before taking any critical decision.

President Goodluck Jonathan, on Monday, paid a private visit to the Akran of Badagry, De-Wheno Aholu Menutoyi

Nigeria earned an estimated N86 billion from the visit of some 4.7 million tourists in the country in 2012.

Leading online business directory, VConncet has pledged continue support for the promotion of Small and Medium Enterprises, SMEs, in Africa as it plans to extend it reach to Ghana.

The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Ms Linda Thomas-Greenfield, on Monday, urged the Federal Government to establish an electoral offences tribunal before the 2015 general elections

Five officials of the Super Eagles and two members of staff of the Nigeria Football Association (NFA), departed Nigeria on Sunday for a World Cup seminar in Brazil

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State says the government takes the construction and rehabilitation of roads in both the urban and rural areas of the state as a priority as a means to fight poverty and improve the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the state.

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Sen. Bala Mohammed, has condemned media reports on a purported foreign trip by the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, for medical treatment

Suspected Boko Haram Islamists killed more than 100 people in an attack on a village in Nigeria, a local senator said on Sunday.