GENEVA, Switzerland, February 3, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has suspended its…
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, February 3, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — 1. On 2 February 2014, representatives of the African Union…
NEW YORK, February 3, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Following are UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson’s remarks, as prepared for…
The Oloye of Oye-Ekiti, Oba Michael Ademolaju, has lamented that the inability of the Federal Government to compensate the agrarian…
Wife of Ekiti State Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, is upbeat that the June 21 governorship election in the state will…
1 February 2014 – The head of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has welcomed a breakthrough commitment…
31 January 2014 – Unless additional funding is secured for the Central African Republic (CAR), nearly two million desperate people…
31 January 2014 – An action plan to stabilize the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has made important progress…
31 January 2014 – The congestion at United Nations bases in South sudan has started to create risks for the…
Battling chronic diseases will be the major Arab health care challenge for the next generationLONDON, 30 January 2014 (IRIN) -…
Follow @{0}Razed IDP camp in Côte d’Ivoire’s west. Activist worry that politics is overshadowing justice ABIDJAN, 29 January 2014 (IRIN)…
Follow @{0}Liberian authorities are cracking down on the sale of fake drugsMONROVIA, 29 January 2014 (IRIN) – Liberia’s Ministry of…
The Federal Government on Sunday urged Nigerians to pray for the security agents partaking in the ongoing military action to…
The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, on Sunday reassured Nigerians, especially industrialists, of steady electricity supply in a very…
The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) on Sunday urged the Commissioner of Police in Lagos State to track down the…
They are the moral guide to the society and they do all in their wisdom to engender peace and preserve…
Former Vice President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has dumped the party which gave him a platform to be Nigeria’s…
Nigeria’s ruling party, weakened by mass defections and riven by months of in-fighting, was dealt a fresh blow on Sunday, when one of its most senior figures said he had joined the main opposition. Atiku Abubakar, the country’s vice-president under…
“Nigeria, March/April 1978: The Minister for Education, Col Ahmadu Ali under the Obasanjo Military administration, had just announced that the Federal Government of Nigeria intended to increase the cost of feeding for University and other tertiary…
RABAT, Morocco, February 2, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — On January 31, 2014, the Executive Board of the International Monetary…