The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today February 11, 2014 arraigned one Inuwa Mohammed Ahmed, an accountant with a…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, February 11, 2014 arraigned one Yusuf Kehinde Bakare before Justice Raliatu…
From heroin stashed in human hair to drugs concealed in tins of sardines, Nigeria’s anti-narcotics agency is used to having to deal with increasingly ingenious attempts at smuggling. But where once the west African nation was only a key staging post…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi (Left), addressing the Arewa (Hausa) Community, during the presentation of Ten Motorcycles and an…
13 February 2014 – Some 90 per cent of the 11th century archaeological site of Gao Saneye in northern mali…
13 February 2014 – The Security Council today renewed until the end of the year the United Nations mission helping…
13 February 2014 – The United Nations has allocated an additional $10 million from its emergency humanitarian fund to support…
13 February 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the head of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM)…
12 February 2014 – Standing on his hind legs to peer at a United Nations vehicle in South Sudan, he…
12 February 2014 – Rural development is key to Africa’s prosperity, yet it has been undervalued by Governments, international lenders…
12 February 2014 – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today began to airlift food into the Central African…
Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has praised the immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Onyeabor Ihejirika (rtd), for…
Four persons have been relieved of their appointments in the Federal Executive Council in Nigeria. The affected persons include…
DAKAR, Senegal, February 13, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA) in partnership with…
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, February 13, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Minister for Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt will visit the African state…
DUBAI, UAE, February 13, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The growing confidence in Somalia’s economic recovery process has seen institutions…
MOGADISHU, Somalia, February 13, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The National Union of Somali Journalists [NUSOJ] protests the arrest of…
Boko Haram gunmen killed nine Nigerian soldiers after launching an ambush on a military convoy in the troubled northeast, a local official and a hospital source told AFP Thursday. The troops were responding to a distress call late Wednesday in the Madagali…
GENEVA, Switzerland, February 13, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Strong concerns were expressed by the World Council of Churches (WCC)…
OSLO, Norway, February 13, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — “The situation in the Central African Republic is critical. More than…