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Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan today effected a wholesale removal of all the service chiefs—military, police and intelligence—appointed by his late boss, Umaru Yar'Adua.
President Goodluck Jonathan has carried out far reaching shake up of the police and the intelligence services today by removing the Inspector general of police, Ogbonna Onovo and replaced him with...
The long overdue shake-up of the military establishment has just taken place in Nigeria. Goodluck Jonathan has  announced the  removal all military service chiefs.
Statement by Prof Wole Soyinka on the Ogun State Crisis- I have just read online the recent development in Ogun State.
The religious sect known as Boko Haram this evening in Bauchi State demonstrated the porousness of Nigerian security by carrying off an audacious prison break and freeing over 700 people being held...
At INEC’ s national headquarters in Abuja, on Tuesday, INEC’s National Commissioner in charge of Information, Publicity and Communication, Prince Solomon Soyebi  who stood in for...
Following two terms of office in which he impoverished Ogun State by milking it of almost all of its resources, Governor Gbenga Daniel has now embarked on desperate measures to militarize the state.
These two ladies, whose names are Angela Oselukwu and Uduak Akpan Isreal, are the missing link between the N5 billion Naira graft and the successful identification of several fronts that the Speaker...
Saharareporters has learned that adherents of the dreaded religious sect, Boko Haram, have killed two local district chiefs and shot another village warden in Maiduguri, Borno State.
The Goodluck Jonathan government is finally taking action over the Halliburton scandal: it is taking to court some of the Nigerians involved.
Pius Adesanmi, SaharaReporters weekly columnist and Professor of Literature and African Studies at Carleton University in Canada, has won the inaugural Penguin Prize for African Writing in the non-...
Dear Sir: Further to our telephone conversation of Monday, August 16, 2010, I write to tell you, once again, that I found it rather insulting to read in your report that I was hired to cover General...