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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted a 5.5 percent economic growth for Africa in 2014, but said it would…

Israel is the latest of countries to offer support to Nigeria in its fight against terrorism which has eaten deep…

The northern chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), which comprises 19 states in the region have called on…

Immediate past governor of Ebonyi State, Dr. Sam Egwu has called on the Federal Government to recruit teeming unemployed graduates…

Former Lagos State Governor and one of the national leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has…

The Presidency has reacted to the statement by the Interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Bisi…

L-R: Beneficiaries of the Millennium Development Goals’ Village Health Workers Scheme: Ogunmola Yetunde (Oye Local Government); Olaleye Sade (Ikole LG);…

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, on Monday announced the decision of his administration to commence payment of the 27.5…

Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has watched with very keen interest a video clip shown on the BBC world…

The Chargé d’Affaires in the Embassy of the United States of America in Cameroon, Gregory D. Thome, has ruled out…

The head of the Boko Haram insurgents — Abubakar Shekau shocked the world this morning when he released another video…

The National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) has disclosed that satellite images from the Nigeria SatX and Sat 2…

Libya’s navy said Monday it had intercepted and rescued 340 illegal migrants off the coast of the western town of Sabratha when their boat began to take on water. The rescue came on the same day Italy’s navy said at least 14 migrants had died when their…

Chad announced it is closing its border with the Central African Republic on Monday, saying it wants to stop violence spilling over from the sectarian conflict next door. “We will not allow the Chadian territory to be used by one side or the other to…

Dozens of women’s rights activists took to the streets of the Senegalese capital Dakar on Monday to denounce the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria by Islamist militants. Members of 20 organisations who had come together near the Nigerian…

French President Francois Hollande said Monday he had invited US and British officials to attend a Paris summit this weekend focusing on the threat from Islamist sect Boko Haram, which has abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria. “I asked the…

ABUJA (Youth Development Ministry Report) – The Minister of Youth Development, Boni Haruna has called for the establishment of a…

Amnesty International has been faulted by the Military authority for stating that the Military was informed of the impending attack…

ABUJA (National Planning Commission Report) – The reform process of the Nigeria public service has received a boost with the…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, May 12, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Dr Nkosazana…