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Are Nigerian citizens in the US and at home guided by any travel advisory for their safety when visiting the ...

Security operatives rescued the remaining 13 victims abducted from a Benue Links bus in Otukpo, concluding days of search operations.

Police say seven suspects have been arrested and some victims rescued.

Two passengers abducted along the Makurdi–Otukpo road have escaped, while police intensify efforts to rescue remaining victims and investigate the ...

A family has raised fresh concern after two teenage brothers were identified among the passengers abducted along the Makurdi–Otukpo road, ...

This shows “a persistent and growing protection crisis”, the Executive of the NHRC, Tony Ojukwu, said on Thursday.

Cumulatively, 21 states and 82 local government areas have recorded at least one confirmed case in 2026.

The initial rollout will cover eight states, with expansion dependent on government action and domestic financing.

The rollout, which will begin in eight states - Anambra, Ebonyi, Gombe, Kwara, Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Benue, and the ...

The NCDC said the case fatality rate currently stands at 23.2 per cent, higher than the 18.7 per cent recorded ...

International Women’s Day is observed every year on 8 March to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of ...

Factions loyal to Governor Hyacinth Alia and SGF George Akume held separate congresses in Benue on Tuesday, producing parallel state ...

New infections were reported in Ondo, Bauchi, Taraba, Edo, Plateau, Gombe, Nasarawa, Kano, Ebonyi, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Kogi, ...

The deceased, both displaced from their ancestral communities, had sought refuge in Agagbe following attacks in their areas.

The agency also disclosed that landscape and readiness assessments have been completed in 10 states; Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Benue, Cross ...

Benue becomes the first state in Nigeria to formally implement, at that scale, the community policing structure outlined in the ...

Mr Idris said transporting samples from remote communities to state laboratories remains expensive and logistically difficult, particularly in hard-to-reach areas, ...

He disclosed that 15 healthcare workers have also been infected in the current outbreak.

The 74 confirmed cases in Week 6 were reported in Taraba, Ondo, Bauchi, Edo, Benue, Nasarawa, Kogi and Ebonyi states.

PREMIUM TIMES gathered that there was tension at the market on Saturday when a northerner allegedly stabbed a male trader ...

Mrs Akpoti-Uduaghan blocked the entrance to the office of a fellow senator at the National Assembly, protesting her alleged denial ...

Widely regarded as one of Nigeria’s most influential journalists, Dan Agbese was a co-founder of Newswatch magazine alongside Dele Giwa, ...

In a statement issued on Wednesday and signed by its Director General, Temitope Ilori, the agency said the season which ...

According to her, the alleged deaths from Lassa fever at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Orientation Camp in the ...

The deployment was intended to safeguard farming communities, protect livelihoods and revive socio-economic activities disrupted by unending insecurity in the ...