Former Gov. Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State and an aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Friday collected the…
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President Goodluck Jonathan has been advised to reject his recent endorsement by the Peoples Democratic Party’s National Executive Committee (NEC)…
20 September 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has officially established the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response and has…
GENEVA, Switzerland, September 19, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — An on-site mission to Zambia on 22-25 September led by the…
GENEVA, Switzerland, September 18, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — A group of United Nations human rights experts* today urged the…
GENEVA, Switzerland, September 18, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in…
The Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, has urged northern elders and youths to strive to ensure that peace reigned…
The labour unions in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Petroleum and Gas Senior Staff Association (PENGASSAN) and the National Union…
Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo The governor of Gombe State, Ibrahim Dankwambo, has appointed Ibrahim Umar as the new Vice Chancellor of…
Gov. Umaru Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State, has sacked eight cabinet members and five other aides. A statement Friday, signed…
AMINU TAMBUWAL (R) & NBA PRESIDENT, AUGUSTINE ALEGEH Speaker of the House of Representatives, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, yesterday insisted that…
OTTAWA, Canada, September 18, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Minister Fast with Louis-Paul Motazé, Secretary General, Office of the Prime…
A Sierra Leonean, who specialises in trafficking women out of Nigeria for prostitution has been arrested by the Nigeria Immigration…
BOKO HARAM: FG turns to Russia, China as USA, UK fail Nigeria The battle against Islamist sect Boko Haram has…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, September 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU),…
Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola has approved the release of results of promotion exams held from March 15 to March…
19 September 2014 – As an Ebola outbreak of “unprecedented nature and scope” continues its spread through Guinea, Liberia and…
BRUSSELS, Kingdom of Belgium, September 19, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — In response to an invitation by the Tunisian authorities,…
A National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Ezemagu Nnamdi has made President Goodluck Jonathan happy after donating N10,000 towards the…
South African authorities said 84 citizens of the country have died in the collapse of a building at the Synagogue…