Sahara Reporters publisher Omoyele Sowore on Thursday pleaded not guilty to charges of treasonable felony against him by the Nigerian Government. Sowore and his co-defendant Olawale Bakare were arraigned at the Abuja high court on a two-count charge of conspiring to commit treasonable felony and treasonable felony. Details later.

The Nigerian government, thanks to another case of wasteful spending for which it is infamous for, was accidentally able to prevent the United States' Central Intelligence Agency from gaining access to records of communications concerning Nigerian spies, soldiers, and diplomats. For over 50 years, starting from the years following the end of the Second World…

The United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (HERC), Mark Lowcock, has said over seven million people; are dire need of humanitarian assistance in insurgency affected states of Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe.

The Nigerian government Wednesday ordered the immediate payment of February salaries to the civil servants so as to encourage them to participate in the rescheduled Saturday presidential and senatorial election. “On the part of the Federal Government we decided that to make it easy for those who will want to go back to vote, salary…

Nigerian Government on Monday said it will empower two million Nigerians through a financial scheme to grant loans to petty traders. The scheme called "Trader Moni" launched under the Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP) was designed to help petty traders expand their trade with a collateral-free loan of at least N10,000 which would be…

The Nigeria Federal Government is set to launch the Abuja Rail Mass Transit project later this month. The project, which is the first light rail system in West Africa, was flagged-off by former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2007 in an attempt to host the 2014 Commonwealth Games. The Government had earlier disclosed that tracks, as…