The Lagos State Government only approved the construction of 15 storeys for the recently collapsed 21-storey building in the Ikoyi axis of the state despite initial denial, SaharaReporters can report. There have been controversies over the ...

Some people including a family in the Isiala Ngwa Local Government Area of Abia State have suffered a despicable form of treatment that will horrify anyone with any shred of decency or humanity. One of the victims of the heinous crime is dea...

Militants of the Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād, have killed two policemen and a soldier during an ambush in Borno S...

The Nigerian Army has warned soldiers against filming their operations while on assignment.   The army gave the warning in a statement signed by K.O Bukoye on behalf of Farouk Yahaya, the Chief of Army Staff. According...

Ovuorie Health Centre, Ugbawka The labour room Chinonye Onodugo clinches her three-year-old daughter—she sits on a wooden bench—waiting to be attended to by a community health worker under a mango tree. Her daughter has been feverish ...

The Nigerian Human Rights Community (NHRC) has demanded the release of Ilesanmi Adepoju, a 53-year-old man illegally arrested over the abduction of six people in Itapaji town of Ekiti State.   In a statement on Wednesday by its secretar...

Pro-democracy group, Take It Back Movement, has accused the Delta State Commissioner of Police, Ali Mohammed Ari, of stalling the probe into the alleged kidnapping and trafficking of over ten thousand children by the police stations in the s...

A human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has told a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to dismiss a defamatory suit filed against him and SaharaReporters, an online newspaper, by a civil society group, Incorporated Trustee of Global Integri...

The United States has said it will take action against anyone found guilty of undermining the electoral process of the Anambra governorship election.   The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had stated that it would conduc...

Seven persons have been confirmed killed in a night attack by gunmen in an Adamawa village, SaharaReporters has learned. It was gathered that seven others were left with injuries in the night raid in Negga village, in the Numan local governm...