The Cross River State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) on Monday said that the state was currently hosting 36,044 Camerounian refugees in its settlements across the state. Mr Princewill Ayim, Director General of SEMA in Cross River, disclosed this in an Interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar.... Read more
Residents of Garkida town in the Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa State were on Sunday fleeing the area, following a fresh threat by the Boko Haram insurgents to attack the town. A resident of Garkida, in an interview with the Hausa service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, monitored... Read more
Intervene Before Christians Are Wiped Out In Northern Nigeria, Human Rights Group Begs World Leaders
Considering what it called a “choreographed genocide of Christians and the burning of their churches and houses in towns and villages of northern Nigeria by Islamic terrorists and armed Fulani herdsmen,” the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called on the world leaders to intervene without further... Read more
The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has renewed its commitment to transforming the rural economy of the Niger Delta region and improving the livelihood of the citizens. Speaking at a project facilitation training of the $129.17 million Livelihood Improvement Family Enterprises Programme in the Niger Delta, LIFE-ND project in... Read more
The Kwara State, Nigeria-based Elites Network for Sustainable Development (ENetSuD), a Civil Society Organization known for its #FollowKwaraMoney activities, have charged Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to step up its game in the fight against corruption in Kwara state, especially on handling petitions it has been receiving... Read more
Some 70 members of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN) on Monday bemoaned the nonpayment of their severance package 10 years after they were sacked by Mobil Producing Nigeria (MPN) subsidiary of US fim ExxonMobil. They said that they were disengaged in 2009 before the expiration of... Read more
Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, OYC has differed with the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III for saying yesterday that God is using the insurgency/Boko Haram to punish Nigerians for their sins. However, OYC reacting to the Sultan’s comment, said that the insurgency ravaging the North East is a... Read more
From: Arodiegwu Eziukwu, Yenogoa. The Federal High Court Yenagoa presided over by Justice Abimbola Awogboro, Thursday ordered the arrest of four staff of the United Bank for Africa PLC (UBA) charged with cybercrime, fraud and stealing. Abimbola issued warrant for the arrest of UBA PLC and four members of... Read more
There has been widespread anger from Nigerians following the news that a bill for the establishment of an agency to cater for “repentant” Boko Haram terrorists currently fighting to establish an Islamic Sharia government in the country has been introduced for adoption by the Nigerian Senate. Many Nigerians angered... Read more
Rev Nnimmo Bassey, an Environmental Rights Crusader on Tuesday condemned the response by Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) to the Feb 3 oil leak at its oilfields in Brass, Bayelsa. The pipeline explosion on a line feeding the oil export facility discharged crude into the environment and compelled the... Read more
