WASHINGTON, May 16, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Today in Sudan, Meriam Yahya Ibrahim Ishag was sentenced to be flogged…
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An empty fishing Trawler (FT Opeyemi), operating without a fishing license, belonging to Oshine Resources Venture, with seven crew members…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC is to arraign the Chief Executive Officer of Globtec Resources Limited, Joseph Idoko,…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC on Thursday May 15, 2014 arraigned Muhammad Ibrahim Sodangi before Justice Darius Haet…
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 16, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — On 14-16 May, Angola’s Minister of Energy and Water João Baptista…
ROME, Italy, May 16, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — A major operation to distribute seeds and tools has been launched…
The Independent National Electoral Commission inaugurated a National Inter-agency Advisory Committee on Voter Education and Publicity to provide effective strategies for…
A hairdresser, Mrs Suzy Adeleke, on Friday urged an Ikorodu Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve her six-year-old marriage over…
A suspended judge of the FCT High Court, Abuja, Abubakar Talba, resumed sitting after one year suspension by the National…
A 29-year-old woman, Lucy Samuel, on Thursday, appeared before a Yaba Magistrate’s Court, Lagos, for allegedly assaulting her 13-year-old step-daughter…
SECURITY AGENCIES AT A JOINT PRESS BRIEFING IN Abuja ON MONDAY (ENLARGED PHOTO OF AMINU OGWUCHE ARROWED) The Department of…
Members of the Volunteer Vigilance Youths Group also known as “Civilian JTF” in Borno State on Thursday condemned the move…
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…