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The BBC’s Will Ross says the deal could be a “massive breakthrough” Nigeria’s military says it has agreed a ceasefire with Islamist militants Boko Haram – and that the schoolgirls the group has abducted will be released. Nigeria’s chief of defence staff, Alex Badeh, announced the truce. Boko Haram has not made a public statement. The group has been fighting …

ABUJA, NIGERIA. The House of Representatives on Wednesday in Abuja voted to effect 71 amendments to sections of the 1999 constitution. The lawmakers also backed the adoption of referendum for state creation. They, however, rejected the amendment of Section 9 to allow for a referendum in determining the fate of the National Conference recommendations. Among the 261 house members who …

ABUJA—President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday sent to the Senate, a bill for an Act to provide funds for the equipment of the Nigerian Police so as to meet up with the security challenges occasioned by the Boko Haram onslaught on Nigerians. President Jonathan in a letter to the senate titled, ‘Bill for an Act to provide for financial contribution by the …

First I would like, Mr Chairman, if I may, pay tribute to Nigerians as a whole who are enduring all sorts of hardships and deprivations on a daily basis. Many millions are grappling with extreme poverty and barely eking out a living. Nearly all are in fear of their lives or safety for themselves and their families due to Insurgency by …

Both health workers treated Liberian national Thomas Duncan at the same hospital in Dallas A second health worker in the US state of Texas has tested positive for Ebola, health officials say. A 26-year-old female nurse is already receiving treatment after becoming infected by a Liberian man who died from the deadly virus last week. Meanwhile, the UN’s Ebola mission …

It is for our own good, it is for our own health, it is for our own life, he says. Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, Last Thursday threw more light on the idea behind his administration’s innovative initiative, “A Day Without Horn In Lagos” slated for today October 15, 2014, describing it as a step towards sensitizing residents …

A UN medical worker infected with Ebola has died at a hospital in Germany. Doctors at the hospital in Leipzig said the man, 56, originally from Sudan, died despite receiving experimental drugs to treat the virus. More than 4,400 people have died from the outbreak, mainly in West Africa. The rate of new cases at some of the “epicentre” areas …

Benin, Edo, Nigeria – By Oladipo Airenakho. Residents of Benin City, the Edo State capital last Saturday again woke up to the second phase of violence as another set of armed youths went on a rampage inside the legislators’ quarters, unleashing mayhem of an unimaginable proportion. Edo State Legislators’ quarters, located on Ihama Road in the Government Reservation Area of …

The Presidential bid of the All Progressives Congress chieftain, Major-General Mahammadu Buhari gathered momentum in Lagos Sunday as he paid a visit to the State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola SAN, to deliver a special invitation to the formal declaration of his intention to contest the nation’s 2015 Presidential Election. Gen. Buhari, who arrived the Lagos House, Marina, in company with …

Liberian health officials are appealing to nurses and medical assistants not to go ahead with a national strike, as the Ebola epidemic continues. The National Health Workers Association wants an increase in the monthly risk fee paid to those treating Ebola cases. In the US, President Barack Obama has directed more steps to be taken to ensure high safety procedures …