Australian journalist Peter Greste on Friday said his detention and that of his Al-Jazeera colleagues in an Egyptian jail had become a powerful symbol of press freedom worldwide. In a statement from his prison cell on the eve of World Press Freedom…
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Sequel to Thursday night’s bomb explosion in Nyanya, a suburb of Abuja, President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday summoned security chiefs…
CAPE-TOWN, South-Africa, May 2, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Africa needs to do more to translate its commitments to social…
Health Minister, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu The Federal Government has been given a 15-day ultimatum to implement outstanding agreements it entered…
Delta State Deputy Governor, Prof. Amos Utuama, SAN, has ordered Sierra Construction Nigeria Limited, the contractor handling the Otu-Jeremi and…
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 2, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are continuing to leave Bamako and other…
OTTAWA, Canada, May 2, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird issued the following statement:“Canada condemns in…
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde, on Tuesday April 29, 2014 charged employees of both…
Former Governor now Senator representing Kwara Central in the upper chamber of the National Assembly, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has canvassed…
Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State will contest the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential primary elections, Chairman of the party…
The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in the August 9 elections in the state, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has proclaimed…
EL FASHER (DARFUR), Sudan, May 2, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — A UNAMID peacekeeper, Sergeant Awesu Soleiman who had been…
Renowned Islamic Scholar, Sheik (Dr) Ahmed Abubakar Gumi has expressed the hope that the abduction of over 200 school girls…
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BANGUI, Central African Republic, May 2, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Herve Ladsous, arrived…
Ahead of the August 9 governorship election in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday…
As the country gears up for the 2015 general elections, workers in Bayelsa State have been urged not to allow…
Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson Wednesday identified lack of access to finance and skills as major challenges militating against…
Senator Iyabo Obasanjo has accused those in President Goodluck Jonathan’s inner circle of being a stumbling block to ending Boko…
A statement credited to the Nigerian Governors’ Forum (NGF) dismissing claims that the ongoing crisis in Taraba State was religiously…