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Vincent Aboubakar’s 75th minute penalty kick on Sunday in Yaounde cancelled out Moses Simon’s 30th minute goal for Nigeria to draw 1-1 with hosts Cameroon in a Russia 2018 Qualifier.

Amnesty International in a fresh tally of civilians killed by Boko Haram said at least 381 were killed since April 2017 in Cameroon and Nigeria amid a spike in suicide bombings.

Presidential spokesman Garba Shehu says efforts to get the nation out of its present economic challenges are beginning to yield positive results, especially in  agriculture.He also revealed that the government will continue to encourage companies such as WACOT, Olam, Bua to enhance rice production in the country.

By Samson Osagie, Esq. As I approach my golden age, I have never been so worried and scared of the critical dimension that religion is assuming in negatively affecting the health and indeed the totality of our national life. This is even more so going particularly with the events currently going on across the Country where almost everyone is caught …

President Muhammadu Buhari will launch next month an Economic Recovery Growth Plan for Nigeria, now going through a difficult recession.

Prof. Itse Sagay, Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), on Thursday said Nigeria risks losing another $550 million recovered from the Abacha family to the United States.

Another 140 Nigerians who voluntarily agreed to return to Nigeria from Libya where they have been stranded on Tuesday arrived the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA) Lagos, aboard a Libyan Airlines plane.

The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma says that the Nigeria will issue new oil licences as part of efforts to explore new streams of revenues to fund the 2017 budget.

The Nigerian security forces, led by the military, embarked on a chilling campaign of extrajudicial executions and violence resulting in the deaths of at least 150 peaceful pro-Biafra protesters in the south east of the country, according to an investigation by Amnesty International published today.

The attention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is drawn to the recent withdrawal of the Forgery Case brought before Justice Yusuf Halilu of the Jabi Division of the FCT High Court, Abuja by the Federal Government through the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation against the Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu …