The National Peace Committee for 2015 General Elections, yesterday, said the elections will hold as rescheduled on March 28 and April 11. It added that the polls will be peaceful.

A housewife has been arrested in Enugu for allegedly hacking her husband to death over an undisclosed reason.

In the build up to the March 28 presidential election, the National Leader of All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; the party’s vice presidential candidate, Professor Yemi Osibajo; and Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, governor of Osun State, led teeming supporters of the party for a solidarity march to mobilize the electorate, yesterday.

Saudi Arabia overtook India in 2014 as the world’s biggest importer of defence equipment, fuelled by tensions in the Middle East, according to a study published Sunday by respected analysts IHS Jane’s.

The armies of Niger and Chad on Sunday launched a major ground and air strike against Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria, opening a new front in regional efforts to eradicate the Islamist militants.

”In keeping with the times, my government will ensure that Nigerian women are given the opportunity to rise and play an even more prominent role in moving out great nation forward,” it said.

The Chibok Community in Borno on Sunday lauded President Goodluck Jonathan for sending Alhaji Mohammed Wakil, the Minister of State for Power, to reassure them of safe return of the abducted students of the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok.

Maiduguri – Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno has terminated his ongoing political campaigns to the Southern part of the state following multiple bomb blasts in Maiduguri, the Borno capital.

Troops of the Nigerian Army on Saturday captured Buni Yadi town, the headquarters of Gujba Local Government Area and Buni Gari town both in Yobe State.

The armies of Niger and Chad on Sunday launched a “ground and air” offensive against the Islamist Boko Haram group in northeastern Nigeria, a source from the Niger government said.