Abia state government has applauded the United States government for lifting the travel ban imposed on its citizens to Abia and…
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NEW YORK, January 16, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN…
The All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State Chapter, has joined Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka in begging President Goodluck Jonathan…
A Surulere Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on Friday placed a N100,000 bail on a 24-year-old tailor, Lukman Suleiman, for beating…
AT last, Anambra has joined the league of states that have elected people at the third tier of government. .…
The Peoples Democratic Party on Jan 17 pledged to improve the welfare of Nigerians by remaining united and supporting government’s…
The Supreme Court, Friday, gave the Federal Government the go ahead to prosecute the eldest son of the late Head…
JUBA, South Sudan, January 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Thousands of people are at risk of being left without…
NEW YORK, January 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The United Nations Humanitarian Chief and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos,…
GENEVA, Switzerland, January 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Thousands of people have been displaced by renewed fighting in Unity…
GENEVA, Switzerland, January 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Fighting in South Sudan has turned into a horrifying humanitarian and…
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, January 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The recent violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) and the…
GENEVA, Switzerland, January 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — By Antoine Mbao Bogo, president of the Central African Republic Red…
A top UN rights envoy in South Sudan said child soldiers are fighting in the more than month-long conflict, with mass killings reported to have taken place. “The reports that we have come across involve mass killings, extrajudicial killings, widespread…
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni views gays as “sick” but does not believe they should be jailed or executed and will block a push by parliament to impose tough penalties, his spokesman said on Friday. “He does not approve of homosexuality but he believes…
The Director of Weights and Measures in the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Oluyinka Joseph Sikuade has said…
GENEVA, Switzerland, January 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’ Director of Operations,…
Ogun State governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has denied vehemently his alleged involvement in the disruption of a meeting organised…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission today, January 16, 2014 arraigned a Bureau de Change operator, Auwal Ibrahim before Justice…
It was drama today, January 16, 2014 at the Federal High Court Lokoja, Kogi State as Justice I. E Ekwo…