Kenyan police and Muslim youths clashed in Mombasa following Friday prayers, witnesses said, days after a firebrand Islamist cleric was gunned down in the port city. Security was tight and tensions high around the Musa mosque, seen by Kenyan authorities…
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British businessman Shrien Dewani will arrive in Cape Town next week to stand trial on charges that he arranged the murder of his 28-year-old Swedish bride, it was announced on Friday. “After a successful extradition process, Mr Dewani is expected to…
An official in Nigeria’s central Nasarawa state and a local leader on Friday accused the military of killing scores of people in a disarmament operation, but defence officials denied the charge. The alleged incident took place on Thursday in the Keana…
The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Works, Dr. Abubakar Koro Muhammed has stated that corruption is the bane of development…
The Minister of Youth Development, Mr. Boni Haruna has disclosed that the Federal Government is working assiduously to ensure that…
Nigeria could leap-frog South Africa to become Africa’s biggest economy this weekend, when the results of a new way of calculating national output are announced. Government statisticians will unveil the new figures on Sunday, with widespread expectations…
NEW YORK, April 4, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — African Union-United Nations Joint Special Representative (JSR) for Darfur, Mohamed Ibn…
WASHINGTON, April 4, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — EXECUTIVE ORDERBLOCKING PROPERTY OF CERTAIN PERSONS WITH RESPECT TO SOUTH SUDANBy the…
WASHINGTON, April 4, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:Pursuant to the International Emergency Economic…
WASHINGTON, April 4, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Four years ago, some four million South Sudanese voted to break with…
WASHINGTON, April 4, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), made…
BANGUI, Central African Republic, April 4, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, headed by Mr.…
Edo State governor, Adams Oshiomhole has said that he had to intervene in the disagreement between civil society organisations in…
Abia Governor, chief Theodore Orji has signed the 2014 budget of 115.3 billion naira into law.The Abia state chief executive…
A consortium of companies in Nigeria and a Group of top-rate Chinese investors have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)…
The Minister of Youth Development, Boni Haruna has declared that President Goodluck Jonathan is more than ever committed to the…
Justice Lawal Akapo of the Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja will on May 2, 2014, rule on an application…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday April 1, 2014, told an Ikeja High court how Emeka Chukwu…
Ismaila Muhammed was today sentenced to 12 years imprisonment by a Federal High Court sitting in Bauchi and presided by…
Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has assured the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) of Government’s cooperation and support in ensuring…