Members of the Miyetti Allah Fulani Cattle Breeders Association have denied accusation of crimes being levied against them in different parts of the country. Mr Bayero Ibrahim, the Secretary of Fulani youths nationwide, who spoke on their behalf, made the denial in an interview with newsmen in Wassa, Abuja, on Tuesday. Ibrahim argued that Fulanis were mostly victims of communities where they settled rather than perpetrators of hideous crimes often ascribed to them.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has appealed to the police to provide more security for vulnerable places across the country in order to prevent attacks on such places by Boko Haram insurgents.

Media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, announced his engagement to former supermodel Jerry Hall on Tuesday, and gave details of plans for his fourth marriage in a classified advert in one of his British newspapers.

The U.S. Special Envoy for the Great Lakes of Africa, Mr Thomas Perriello, would be visiting Burundi as part of his government’s efforts at ending crisis in the country.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned the violence and killings in the just-concluded supplementary governorship election in Bayelsa on Saturday

A Mararaba Grade 1 Area Court in Nasarawa State on Tuesday remanded a 37-year-old businessman, Nasiru Alidu, in prison over alleged forgery.

ABUJA-THE House of Representatives Speaker, Yakubu Dogara Tuesday said the global crash  in oil prices is a wake up call for Nigeria to diversify from a mono-economy that relies only on revenue from oil for survival. 

HUNDREDS of ex-militants under the federal government phase II amnesty programme have accused officials of the amnesty office of allegedly selling slots for educational training of ex-militants to influential Nigerians for N500, 000 per individuals.

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Twenty eight ships laden with petroleum products, food items and other goods are expected to arrive Apapa and Tin-Can Island Ports in Lagos from Jan. 12 to Jan. 31. The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) stated this in its publication – `Shipping Position’,- a copy of which was made available to newsmen on Tuesday in Lagos. […]