The family planning clinics installed by the Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI) in selected Primary Healthcare Clinics (PHCs) in Lagos State are yielding the desired benefits, the users say.

A 54-year-old husband, Adekunle Bakare, on Wednesday asked an Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve his six years marriage to his wife, Ajarat, for allegedly checking his phone without his permission.

The Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) Task Force on restoration of legal practice in North-East says it is partnering Yobe government on administration of justice and respect for human rights in post insurgency.

Indian police said Wednesday they have arrested one of three men accused of gang-raping a woman and tossing her baby from a moving autorickshaw, killing the infant.

Gunmen and suicide bombers stormed Iran’s parliament and the shrine of its revolutionary leader on Wednesday, killing 12 people in the first attacks in the country claimed by the Islamic State group.

The Movement for Actualization of Soverign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has swiftly reacted to the quit notice issued to Ndigbo and Biafrans in general, residing in northern Nigeria.

A Myanmar military plane carrying 116 people went missing on Wednesday between the southern city of Myeik and Yangon, according to the office of the army chief and an airport source.

The Federal Government on Wednesday expressed “deep displeasure” over remarks by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Al-Hussein for describing Nigeria as being an “uncooperative” member and for blocking multiple UN expert visits to these human rights hot spots.

Twelve people were killed in twin attacks on Iran’s parliament complex and the shrine of its revolutionary leader claimed by the Islamic State group on Wednesday, its emergency services chief said.

A chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Comrade Timi Frank, has urged the federal government and leaders of northern extraction, including traditional rulers “to beg the youths of the region to refrain from statements and actions that could build up tension across the country”

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to register “All Peoples Democratic Alliance (APDA)”, the newly-formed political association. National Chairman of APGA, Dr Victor Oye, made the call in his message to members of the party on mark his two years in office, released in Awka […]

Dr Jones Ozuzu, the National President, Nigerian Commercial Farmers Association (NCFA), said on Wednesday that the association had secured 600 hectares of land in Wukari, Taraba, for soya beans cultivation.

Some candidates writing the ongoing National Examination Council (NECO) has appealed to traditional rulers and other stakeholders in Nasarawa State to intervene in the labour/government feud to end the protracted workers strike in the state.

Delta State Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa has said his administration is committed to capacity building of its workforce to grow a productive civil and public service.

THE Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, has said that the June 1 dismissal of the treason felony charge against Charles Okah by Justice Gabriel Kolowale of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has justified the Okah brothers, Henry and Charles and revealed former President Goodluck Jonathan as a liar.