Following increased frequency of terror attacks in the country, especially the recent events in Abuja and Borno State, President Goodluck…
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The Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, today April 15, 2014, arraigned one Dr George Odabi along with his company,…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday April 15, 2014, arraigned one Adagun Moshood Olalekan before Justice O.…
Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde today disclosed that the Commission has recovered N4.3billion…
Further hearing in the N25.7billion theft charge preferred against former managing director of Bank PHB, Mr Fancis Atuche, his wife,…
Kogi State Governor, Capt. Idris Wada on Wednesday dissolved the state executive council. This is contained in a statement issued…
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has summoned members of the National Security Council to a meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja,…
Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has criticised Algerian authorities over delays in issuing visas for foreign journalists to cover the country’s presidential election on Thursday. Many journalists were “issued visas late in the day accompanied…
Disgruntled residents in a small South African town booed President Jacob Zuma Wednesday during an election campaign of the ruling ANC three weeks ahead of general polls, according to a report. Rally-goers reacted angrily while Zuma — under fire for…
UN refugee chief Antonio Guterres warned Wednesday that the conflict in Central African Republic could embroil the whole region and threaten global security. “It’s not easy to put Central African Republic on the map of concerns of public opinion in…
Samantha Lewthwaite, also known as the White Widow, has been linked to the horrific attack in Abuja on Monday, which…
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar lll, has condemned the Monday’s abduction of 100 schoolgirls of Government Secondary School,…
The Police in Bayelsa on Wednesday arrested 32 suspects in connection with an attempt to raze the palace of the traditional ruler…
Heavily armed Boko Haram Islamists kidnapped more than 100 girls from a school in northeast Nigeria, sparking a search by soldiers to track down the attackers, a security source and witnesses said. The unprecedented mass abduction in Borno state came…
16 April 2014 – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has strongly condemned the reported abduction of some 100 school…
Against the Minister of Power’s speech over the weekend that Nigeria was facing a spiritual war and urging those who…
LONDON, United-Kingdom, April 16, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Mark Simmonds meets President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud of Somalia Foreign Office…
MOGADISHU, Somalia, April 16, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia (SRSG), Nicholas…
GENEVA, Switzerland, April 16, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights…
WASHINGTON, April 16, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — On Monday, May 5, President Obama will host President Ismail Omar Guelleh…