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Mrs Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, Lagos State Deputy Governor Lagos State Deputy Governor, Adejoke Orelope-Adefulire, has made a passionate plea to workers…

Suspected Fulani herdsmen, Thursday evening invaded the home town of Governor Gabriel Suswam; Anyii, killing six persons. The Fulani militia…

(Information Ministry Press Report) – The Minister of Information, Labaran Maku has charged the Resident Information Officers (RIOS) deployed to…

Office of the Vice President Report Nigeria’s Vice President, Mohammed Namadi Sambo on Tuesday April 8, 2014 paid a condolence…

Special Duties & Inter-Governmental Affairs Report The Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki has called on…

Information Ministry Press Report The Minister of Information, Labaran Maku has charged the Resident Information Officers (RIOS) deployed to Ministries,…

Report by Sampson Ikemitang. President Jonathan’s address of Monday, March 17, 2014, at the opening ceremony of the National Conference…

Mali’s new Prime Minister Moussa Mara formed a government, with the outgoing foreign minister becoming reconciliation minister as the deeply-divided nation recovers from months of ruinous conflict. Former planning minister Mara, 39, was promoted to…

Suspected Boko Haram Islamists have killed 19 people, including six college teachers, in three separate attacks in Nigeria’s troubled northeastern Borno state, residents and travellers said. The killings took place on Thursday and Friday in Dikwa, Kala…

8 teachers were Thursday killed in Dikwa town, Borno State by members of the outlawed Boko Haram sect. The sect…

An outbreak of cholera in Bauchi State has reportedly killed over 59 persons, an official of the State told a…

The Minister of State for Power, Hon. Mohammed Wakil said the Federal Government would assist Borno Sate government in building…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, had secured more than 773 convictions and recovered billions of naira since its…

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, presided over by Justice A. I. Kutigi, on Thursday, April 10, 2014,…

For any meaningful impact to be made in the war against economic crimes and corruption, anti-graft agencies like the Economic…

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 11, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Since late December 2013 IOM has registered and tracked over 95,000…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, April 11, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU),…

Filmmaker Rachel Boynton set out to give a new perspective on how the world keeps the lights on and cars on the road. It took her nearly a decade, but the result is “Big Men”, a documentary — backed by Hollywood A-lister Brad Pitt as executive producer…

After months of post-election deadlock Madagascar’s president named a new prime minister Friday, tapping the relatively unknown doctor Roger Kolo for the post. The announcement came in a statement from president Hery Rajaonarimampianina’s office. It…

A 49-year-old pastor, Friday Arthur, was on Friday charged before an Igbosere Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly defiling two…