Russian President Vladimir Putin leads an AFP list of the most influential people of 2014, a year marked by seismic conflicts in Europe and the Middle East and scarred by episodes of extreme brutality.

General Muhammadu Buhari in his acceptance speech at the All Progressives Congress national convention where he emerged as the APC presidential candidate has said that his call to you serve Nigerians is a call made due to the love he has for NIgerians and Nigeria.

D-e-a-t-h the five-letter word is real. Bearing the fact that all humans must die, we must be conscious of the position of our state when we cease to exist.

ABUJA — As the political landscape heats up ahead of the 2015 general elections, the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, yesterday, warned judges across the federation to distance themselves from political associations.

Retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari has tried three times to become president of Nigeria since the return to civilian rule in 1999 and failed on each occasion.

Sen. walid Jibril, Secretary, PDP Board of Trustees, said on Friday that the party had the ingredient to tackle the security challenges facing Nasarawa State.

SINCE Boko Haram started in Nigeria around 2009, fear and blackmail have remained the main planks for their growth, and expansion. Politicians, especially those from the north, birthed and nurtured violence, in the name of Boko Haram as an instrument of blackmail in order to wrest power from the hands of the South of Nigeria. These men, as experienced and knowledgeable as they are in Nigerian politics, think that the killings would force Nigerians to give them power

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has expressed its gratitude to the security agencies, the media, party members/supporters and indeed the entire people of Lagos for their immense contributions to the runaway success of the party’s two-day national convention that saw the emergence of its presidential candidate without rancour
In a statement issued in Lagos on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said going by the efforts and perseverance of these groups, it is now clear that Nigerians are ready to make the necessary sacrifice for change.

A double bomb attack that killed 31 people in a crowded market in the central Nigerian city of Jos was likely to have been carried out by Boko Haram, the state government said on Friday.

IN a recent article of the above title written by an analyst from Kano, one Mohammed Abdulkadir, he related compelling and mutually beneficial reasons why the North, particularly the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) elite in the north will support the re-election bid of President Goodluck Jonathan, and urged for a rapprochement between the Northern power elite and the present and future leaders of the South-South zone.