The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) has urged President Goodluck Jonathan to ignore calls by governors and other stakeholders of states…
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, April 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The 23rd Ordinary Session of the African Committee of Experts…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, April 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Members of the African Ombudsmen and Mediators Association(AOMA) will henceforth…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, April 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Department of Political Affairs of the African Union Commission…
GENEVA, Switzerland, April 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Community acceptance, provision of impartial treatment and psychosocial support for medical…
PRETORIA, South-Africa, April 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — During a two-day consultation, HIV surveillance experts in South Africa agreed…
Mrs Felicia Sani, a delegate at the ongoing National Conference, has condemned what she called “the exposure of female bankers…
Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram Islamists stormed a packed viewing centre in Nigeria’s restive northeast and shot dead two…
OTTAWA, Canada, April 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie,…
CONAKRY, Guinea, April 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The efforts to control the outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus…
WASHINGTON, April 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Press StatementJen PsakiDepartment SpokespersonWashington, DCApril 9, 2014The upcoming elections in Guinea-Bissau are…
As part of its strategic move to sensitize Nigeria students on the need to shun corruption and economic crimes, the…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on April 9, 2014, re-arraigned Mohammed Ahmed Katun, a former staff of Pension Account,…
The on-going trial of Stephen Ropo Asala and Obaro Victor Kayode, former chairmen Yagba West and Yagba East Local Government…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has been commended for its efforts in fighting corruption in Nigeria. Members of…
South Africa’s workplaces are still heavily racially skewed 20 years after the fall of apartheid, with only one fifth of top executive positions held by blacks, said a report published Wednesday. “The majority of work places are still ‘lilly white’…
Scores of Islamist gunmen attacked a police station, a court and a bank in northern Nigeria on Wednesday, killing seven officers and a civilian, a police chief told AFP. The raid in the town of Gwaram in Jigawa state began at 1:00 am (0000 GMT) and…
A pressure group within the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, under the aegis of the National Coalition for Jonathan/Sambo Presidency, has…
GOVS. GODSWILL AKPABIO OF AKWA IBOM; LIYEL IMOKE OF CROSS RIVER AND IBRAHIM SHEMA OF KATSINA AFTER THEIR MEETING WITH…
Presidential candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the 2007 general elections, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, has described…