All Progressives Congress (APC)’ s candidates in Saturday state assembly elections have won all the available 30 seats in Sokoto State House of Assembly.

Gov Gabriel Suswam said the PDP in the state would avoid acts that would undermine the incoming administration of Dr Samuel Ortom. Suswam made this known when he received Ortom in his office in Makurdi on Monday. He said as a party, they had resolved not to challenge the outcome of the elections at the tribunal even though they had misgivings in the manner the elections were held.

Gov. Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State, said that his administration had fulfilled the promises it made to the people of the state in the last eight years. Yuguda said this in a telephone interview withnewsmen on Monday in Abuja. According to him, his achievements and legacies in office will speak for him after the expiration of his tenure on May 29.

Being text of the press conference addressed by the National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Lai Mohammed, in Lagos on Monday, April 13th, 2015 Good afternoon gentlemen and welcome to this press conference. As you are aware, the Governorship and House of Assembly elections were held across the country on Saturday. […]

UNICEF said on Monday that no fewer than 800,000 children have fled their homes in north-eastern Nigeria because of the activities Boko Haram insurgents. UNICEF’s regional director for West and Central Africa, Manuel Fontaine, told newsmen in Berlin that the number of child refugees has over doubled in 2014. Fontaine said the children fled to Chad, Niger and Cameroon and within Nigeria.