The Federal Government has responded to the cries of over 3,788 persons in Agwagune community, Biase Local Government Area of Cross River State affected by flood and landslide for several years. The Federal Government, through the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) donated building materia...

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 doub...

Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai on Monday criticised Nigerian and world leaders for not doing enough to help free 219 schoolgirls kidnapped a year ago by Boko Haram militants. “In my opinion, Nigerian leaders and the international community have not done enough to help you,” she said in a l...

AUN-API organized a special pre-Easter food distribution on Thursday April 2, for nearly 6,000 Internally Displaced Persons, all women. This event, which took place at St Teresa Catholic Cathedral, Jimeta, had members of the University community as volunteers. Having lost family members, their bu...

Nigerian forces in the area had advance warning of more than four hours. As foreign experts begin to arrive the country to help the Nigerian military in the search of the over 250 girls kidnapped from the Government College, Chibok, 24 days ago, global human rights organisation, Amnesty Internati...

The United Nations High Commission for Refugee (UNHCR), Nigeria, says it will train its staff and partners on protection of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the country. In a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday by Mr Hanson Tamfu, External Relations Officer, UNHCR, the commission said ...

Boko Haram militants have slit the throats of 12 people in northeast Nigeria as the army was trying to evacuate civilians from the area, a military source and a witness said on Friday. The Islamist group has been driven out of much of the huge swathe of territory they controlled at the start of the...

WHAT initially started in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, as a mere skirmish between the police and members of a radicalised group, Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’Awati Wal-Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram (Western education is forbidden), in July, 2009, when its then leader, Mohammed Yusuf, was...

Following the successful election and inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari, the Internally Displaced Persons from Chibok and Gwoza, currently residing in Wasa 2, Abuja have called on him to totally liberate their communities and state of all Boko Haram elements so that they can return home; ev...

An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) allegedly planted by suspected Boko Haram members on Sunday exploded at a popular market, Gamboru Market in Maiduguri, leaving four persons critically injured, a member of the youth vigilante group in the town, Yunus Kaka has said.‬ ‪It would be recalled t...