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The coffin of author Chinua Achebe is seen a stage, as part of an event in Awka, Nigeria, Wednesday, May 22, 2013.

At large public hospitals in Nigeria, overworked nurses snap at crowds of pregnant women, who wait hours to receive quality care.

By Bashir Adefaka A network of Islamic organizations led by Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has urged the Federal Government to look beyond declaration of state of emergency in tackling the security challenges facing the country.

Nigerian pop stars, Tuface Idibia , D'banj , and Psquare were announced at the unveiling ceremony held in lagos on Wednesday May 22, as the headlines for this year's Star Music trek.

Still trying to fish out the masterminds of the massacre of dozens of policemen and security agents in Alakyo in Nasarawa State about two weeks ago, security operatives have arrested a senior director working with the state government in connection with the killings.

Border Force officers discovered the drugs on a bus which had been used to transport air crew following a flight from Lagos to London by Nigerian carrier Arik Air.

International Oil Companies have expressed readiness to invest $165 billion in Nigeria in the next five years.

Asserts the Nigerian libertarian blogger, who has been traveling throughout West Africa : " It was inspiring to see women run the security and protocols at the in Togo but one's spirit was dampened by the sight of queues for the rest room and the fact that tissues were rationed to users.

Feelings of shame and despair at being conned out of $300,000 by a convincing Nigerian based email scam led Queensland interior decorator Jill Ambrose to attempt suicide twice.

I UNDERSTAND what you are going through right now. No sooner did the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, declare a state of emergency in your state last week Tuesday, May 14, 2013, than the powers of the Nigerian State were unleashed on your area.

The Defence Headquarters yesterday said it will start releasing detained Boko Haram members and handing them over to state governments, under a peace initiative towards ending insurgency in parts of the North.

The body of revered Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe arrived on Wednesday in his home state in Nigeria, where hundreds of admirers packed a stadium to pay tribute a day ahead of his funeral.

PROMINENT Nigerians from all walks of life continued their effusion of tributes as they paid their last respect to the master storyteller, Prof.

Col. Sagir Musa named 11 areas of Maiduguri where people must remain inside their homes until further notice.

The body of celebrated writer, Chinua Achebe has arrived in Enugu, Nigeria, ahead of final funeral rites to be held on Thursday, May 23, 2013, according to a lindaikeji blog report.

By Emma Amaize WARRI- FORMER national chairman of the Traditional Rulers of Oil Minerals Producing Communities of Nigeria, TROMPCON, HRM Charles Ayemi-Botu, has said declaration of state of emergency by President Goodluck Jonathan in only three Northern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa was not enough.

Scores of air passengers were yesterday stranded at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport as unions at the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency embarked on an indefinite strike.

Nine minors, all males, suspected to be members of four different dreaded cult groups that have been disguising and acting as informants to kidnappers and assassins in Sapele, Sapele Local Government Area of Delta State, were Tuesday arrested and paraded in Koko, Warri North Local Government Area of Delta state, by men of the Nigeria Army, Koko ... (more)

Nigerian soldiers are seen on the outskirts of Maiduguri in the north-eastern state of Borno in this May 13, 2013, file photo.

Three days after Nigeria launched an offensive on May 16 against Islamic terrorists, US Secretary of State John Kerry stepped in; "We urge Nigeria's security forces to apply disciplined use of force in all operations, protect civilians in any security response and respect human rights and the rule of law." For years the Islamists, called Boko ... (more)