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Five persons have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over allegation of fraudulent transfer of a…

The chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde today, April 28, declared that Local government in…

Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja on Monday, April 28, 2014, dismissed an application asking…

Angola’s long-serving President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos met his French counterpart Francois Hollande on Tuesday on a rare official visit abroad after years of frosty ties caused by a damaging bribery scandal. The two-day visit by the onetime rebel leader…

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 29, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — In an ecumenical service organized by the Congolese churches and hosted…

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 29, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM has condemned in the strongest possible terms a grenade attack…

Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on political affairs, Alhaji Ahmed A. Gulak has been relieved of his appointment by…

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday said it had embarked on a restructuring exercise as part of efforts…

The Governor Jonah Jang-led faction of the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF, has dismissed claims that the recent crisis in some…

FILE PHOTO What should have started out as a normal plenary session at the Ebonyi State House of Assembly some…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State has faulted the call by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the arrest…

One of Nigeria’s indigenous airlines, Aero Contractors, has been found culpable by the Consumer Protection Council (CPC) of gross abuse…

Former National President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) has urged the body not to jettison…

The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Mariam Aloma Mukhtar, yesterday lamented that the remittance of governorship election petitions up…

Nigerian police fired teargas at teachers and students and shot live rounds into the air as they tried to disperse a rally over college closures on Tuesday, protesters said. The march, in the capital Abuja, was called by two academic unions who have…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, April 29, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — In the AU year of Food Security and Agriculture, African…

PORT-LOUIS, Mauritius, April 29, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Africa Regional Technical Assistance Center South (AFRITAC South) held a workshop…

Nigerian parents lashed out on Tuesday at the government’s failure to rescue scores of schoolgirls kidnapped two weeks ago by Boko Haram Islamists, as a local leader claimed the hostages had been sold as wives abroad. “May God curse every one of those…

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in the June 21 elections in Ekiti State, Mr. Ayo Fayose, has threatened…

Mohammed Abacha’s illness stalls his prosecution at an FCT High Court, as judge adjourns case until June 18. Details later.…