LONDON, United-Kingdom, January 24, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Foreign Secretary welcomes agreement to cessation of hostilities between South…
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WASHINGTON, January 24, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Statement by the President on South SudanI welcome today’s signing of a…
WASHINGTON, January 23, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The World Bank Group announced today that it will mobilize US$100 million…
GENEVA, Switzerland, January 23, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — United Nations Special Rapporteur on slavery, Gulnara Shahinian, will undertake a…
Bayelsa State Government says it will use the period of the week-long celebration of its second year anniversary to take…
The Youth in Commercial Agriculture Development Progra-mme, YICAD of the Ekiti State government has turned aro-und the fortune of the…
Ekiti Poultry Ten years after it was initiated, the moribund Ekiti Integrated Poultry Project is generating yet another controversy, with…
When Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State assumed office in October 2010 and he promised to run a participatory government,…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) today January 23, 2014 arraigned one Mohammed Yusuf before Justice Farouq Lawal of…
Bello Godwin Onimisi, a 24 year-old Industrial Engineering student of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka and native of Igarra, Akoko…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Wednesday 22 January, 2014 arraigned the trio of Onoshride Usen, Babangida Bello and Nurah…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC on Monday January 20, 2014 arraigned one Prince Okoro Usuanlele before Justice P.I…
With the deployment of Mobile Intensive Care Units (MICU) to strategic locations for emergency response, the National Emergency Management Agency…
Nigeria’s First Lady, Patience Jonathan has counseled Nigerian girls to have confidence in themselves and actualize their visions with dedication…
Simmering tensions over a key oil-producing state in Nigeria mounted on Thursday, as the country’s two main political parties traded threats and insults, stoking fears of violence in the run-up to elections. The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)…
Tens of thousands of striking workers at South Africa’s top three platinum producers agreed Thursday to take part in government-brokered talks aimed at ending the dispute and limiting economic damage. The Association of Mineworkers and Construction…
Hostility towards gays is escalating in Nigeria since President Goodluck Jonathan signed a popular anti-gay bill into law. Police used tear gas today to disperse an angry mob outside a Nigerian court today as the crowd threw rocks at prisoners accused…
OSLO, Norway, January 23, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — “Norway welcomes the ceasefire agreement in South sudan. It is crucial…
NEW YORK, January 23, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — UN HUMANITARIAN CHIEF VALERIE AMOS TO VISIT SOUTH SUDANWHO: Valerie Amos,…
KHARTOUM, Sudan, January 23, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — [as delivered] Good Morning and Happy New Year everyone. It has…