Members of the Volunteer Vigilance Youths Group also known as “Civilian JTF” in Borno State on Thursday condemned the move…
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Culture clashes and concerns over sovereignty will undermine efforts by foreign experts to help Nigeria’s military find the schoolgirls held hostage by Boko Haram but cooperation can work, experts said on Friday. US military experts have been in Nigeria…
A group of gunmen razed two schools in Bauchi state, northern Nigeria, where Boko Haram gunmen previously attacked a girls’ school, a police spokesman said on Thursday. Dozens of gunmen in cars and on motorcycles stormed the neighbouring villages of…
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday cancelled a visit to the hometown of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamic militants, provoking fresh criticism of his handling of the crisis. A senior government official told AFP that Jonathan…
14 May 2014 – The political situation in Burundi remains tense with limited political space not conducive to protection of…
14 May 2014 – The United Nations expert committee tasked with monitoring discrimination against women today added its voice to…
14 May 2014 – The United Nations Mission in South sudan (UNMISS) has welcomed the signing of an agreement between…
13 May 2014 – The children of the Central African Republic are witnessing terrible violence in what has become a…
13 May 2014 – Stressing the need to educate all children, the head of the United Nations education agency today…
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 16, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — ITU presented the World Telecommunication and Information Society Award to three…
LONDON, United-Kingdom, May 16, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Foreign Secretary condemns attacks in Nairobi and offers his condolences to…
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 16, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Ending a nine-day official visit to Comoros today, the Working Group…
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 16, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Ethiopian community in Finland has donated over EUR 7,700 towards…
The allegation by a national leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu that the Peoples Democratic…
The Presidency has denied reports that President Goodluck Jonathan was scheduled to visit Chibok, Borno State on Friday. The media…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has called on the Federal Gvernment to immediately put an end to the discordant tunes…
US officials slammed Nigeria’s “slow” response to the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls by Islamic militants and renewed criticism Thursday of the military’s poor human rights record. Washington considers the Western African giant a strategic…
Electricity consumers in the country should expect a review of electricity tariff if the price of gas to power plants…
Prominent Pentecostal preacher and Presiding Bishop of Sword of the Spirit Ministries, Francis Wale Oke, has asked the Sultan of…
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 16, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The situation in north-eastern Nigeria is having a severe impact on…