Abuja—Hope dimmed, yesterday, on the rescue of abducted Chibok girls from Boko Haram terrorists as the Chief of Army Staff, General Kenneth Minimah, declared that despite the liberation of some towns and villages in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States, the troops have not been able to establish the where...

The Borno Elders Forum on Wednesday advised that displaced residents of the territories newly reclaimed from Boko Haram should not be hurriedly returned back home, insisting that it is too early. The elders said what should be paramount in the minds of everyone is the reconstruction of the reclai...

One of the tragedies of war, famine and natural disaster is the incidence of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who are trying to flee affected zones to safer areas. All through human civilisation, people have always been victims of man-made violence and even of nature. Therefore, it is expected th...

Soldiers from Niger and Chad have taken the Nigerian town of Damasak from Boko Haram, another victory in a regional campaign to wrest back control of swaths of northeastern Nigeria from the armed group. Damasak, a few kilometres over the border from Niger, was taken from Boko Haram's control over...

Ministers in charge of Gender and Women Affairs of ECOWAS have declared their total commitment to fight for the complete eradication of the Ebola Viral Disease (EVD) and for life to return to normal in the region. In a communique issued after an interactive session held on the margins of the 59th...

Niger faces a large cereal deficit and will struggle to feed its people as well as the thousands of Boko Haram refugees that have spilled over its border, the prime minister said on Wednesday. Among the world's poorest countries, desertic Niger has suffered from recurrent poor harvests. But th...

Up to 100 bodies have been found in a mass grave near the Nigerian town of Damasak, after troops from Chad and Nigeria liberated the locality from Boko Haram militants. … The mass grave of dozens of bodies, some beheaded, was found by Niger and Chad soldiers under a concrete bridge on one of the m...

Two female suicide bombers have been blown apart when the improvised explosive devices (IEDs) strapped on them accidentally detonated in a Borno village. This incident which occurred on Sunday afternoon at Auno village of Konduga local government area, a distance of about 15 kilometres from Maidu...

Nigeria will be declared polio-free in seven months, according to Dr Yewande Adeshina, Special Adviser to Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola on Health. She spoke at flag-off of first round of this year’s national immunisation plus days at the Ikeja Local Government Area of Lagos State. ...

High Commissioner Antonio Guterres will visit Minawao camp to hear the refugees' testimonies and see the conditions in the camp, which is home to 33,000 Nigerian refugees