A new twist into efforts aimed at rescuing the 200 girls of the Government Girls College, Chibok unfolded Wednesday with the Nigeria Police force announcing a mouth watering cash reward of N50million to anyone who volunteers credible information that will lead to their rescue

France on Wednesday offered Nigeria a “special team” to look for more than 200 girls kidnapped by Islamist militant group Boko Haram in an incident that has triggered global shock and condemnation.

China has vowed to help Nigeria find more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militants, President Goodluck Jonathan said on Wednesday after meeting visiting Premier Li Keqiang.

Britain will send a small team of experts to Nigeria to help respond to the kidnap of more than 200 girls, a Downing Street spokesman said Wednesday.

UN special envoy for global education Gordon Brown on Wednesday unveiled a project to improve security in Nigerian schools to prevent a repeat of the mass kidnap of more than 200 girls by Islamist militants.

FOR the world to come to Abuja at this point is a huge vote of confidence that should create some relief from the tensions that insecurity has imposed in the past couple of years. The benefits of the World Economic Forum, WEF, that begins today, stretche further than the businesses that it could sprout for Nigeria.

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) says it has arrested 45 suspected illegal aliens in Yola, Adamawa.

The All Progressives Congress (APC), Edo chapter, on Wednesday said it had fixed Monday, May 12, for its rescheduled State Congress.

Seven persons, including a child, were killed in a road accident on the Lokoja-Abuja highway on Wednesday.

Prof. Wale Oladipo, National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said on Monday that the party would play by the rules in the forthcoming governorship elections in Osun and Ekiti states.

The Muslim Students Society of Nigeria (MSSN) on Wednesday, said the activities of the insurgent group, Boko Haram, was un-Islamic and devilish.

As the Africa edition of the World Economic Forum (WEF) opened in Abuja on Wednesday, FCT residents complied with the Federal Government’s directive to stay at home except those on essential duty.

FROM the beginning of President Jonathan’s administration, the argument has raged on whether he will recontest or not when his first term expires in 2015.

A 38-year-old housewife, Catherine Afolayan, on Tuesday asked an Ado-Ekiti Customary Court to dissolve her 14-year-old marriage to Mr Obadofin Afolayan,41.

The Chinese Premier, Mr Li Keqiang, arrived in Abuja on Tuesday for an official visit to Nigeria.