Democratic structures can exist under emergency rule

LAST week's declaration of a state of emergency in three states of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe has received the official endorsement of the umbrella body of Christians across the country, especially from among the most affected faithful in the troubled ...

The ongoing military action and the emergency rule in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states would make the Federal Government to spend more money and this has the potential to negatively affect the economy, the governor of Central Bank of Nigeria said ...

MORE reactions have continued to trail last week's declaration of State of Emergency in three northern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa. National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), in an interview with The Guardian, defended its reasons ...

ABUJA, Nigeria, May 20 (UPI) -- Some 2,000 to 3,000 people from the Nigerian states of Borno and Yobe have taken refuge in the Niger town of Bosso, the Nigerian newspaper Daily Trust reported Monday. Mamadou Fode Camara, governor of Diffa State in ...

FINALLY, he got moving. Following the mass murders of innocent Nigerians and security forces in Borno, Yobe, Adamawa and Nasarawa States within the past one month, President Goodluck Jonathan cut short a state visit to Southern Africa and returned ...

Any member of the Boko Haram sect that is apprehended during the enforcement of the emergency rule in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States should be given fair trial in the court of law, the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has said.

AS NASS OKAYS EMERGENCY RULE ABUJA — The troops deployed to flush out Boko Haram insurgents from Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states, yesterday, encountered intense resistance from sect members who were armed with sophisticated weapons from Libya. This ...

As the military continues its onslaught against Boko Haram in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States, President Goodluck Jonathan has thanked Nigerians for their support for the emergency rule declared in the three states, assuring them that the effort of ...

hawking and begging around security checkpoints must stop, the Joint Task Force (JTF) in Yobe State warned yesterday. In a statement in Damaturu, the state capital, by its spokesman, Lt. Lazarus Eli, the task force urged hawkers and beggars to ...