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International pressure bore down Saturday on the two sides in South Sudan’s bloody violence to open peace talks to keep the young nation from sliding into civil war. East African and Horn of Africa peace brokers gave until December 31 for President…

His Royal Highness Igwe Dr. Kenneth Onyemaeke Nnaji Orizu III. CON. JP. NNEWI, Nigeria, December 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — One of the longest serving Monarchs in Nigeria The ancient Kingdom of Nnewi in the Anambra State of Nigeria today announces the…

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday fixed Dec. 30 to decide the fate of a Briton, Gareth Wilcox,…

An Ikeja High Court on Friday dismissed three applications filed by an oil marketer, Abdullahi Alao, who is being prosecuted…

Ex-Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has urged supporters of All Progressives Congress (APC) to close ranks and be more accommodating to…

The Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, on Thursday, 26th December advised political leaders to refrain from making unguarded comments…

All Progressives Congress (APC) Chieftain, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, on Friday in Yola said the party was representing the change Nigerians…

Five years after the meltdown of the Nigerian stock market, some investors and operators have shaken off their investment shocks…

The Nigerian Army Headquarters has issued its fourth quarter routine posting and designation of senior officers. This is comprised in a…

The first UN peacekeeping reinforcements arrived Friday in South Sudan, where the government is said to have agreed an immediate ceasefire after nearly two weeks of heavy fighting with rebels. Seventy-two members of a police contingent, moved from the…

The United Nations Development Programme has launched, together with partners, a new centre that will help countries to best use…

27 December 2013 – Some 63,000 civilians have now sought refuge in United Nations bases in South Sudan as the…

27 December 2013 – The United Nations human rights office today called on the President of Uganda to refrain from…

27 December 2013 – Amid reports of bodies found on the streets of the Central African Republic (CAR) capital of…

French President Francois Hollande on Friday called on the United Nations to “play a still bigger role” in the strife-ridden Central African Republic as French troops in Bangui sought to clamp down after days of violence. Heavy patrols of armoured vehicles…

MAROUA, 27 December 2013 (IRIN) – The authorities in Yaoundé, the Cameroonian capital, have set up tighter border controls in…

The leader of Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamists, Abubakar Shekau, has claimed a daring December 20 raid on a military barracks in the restive northeast, in a video obtained by AFP Friday. The insurgents stormed the barracks in the town of Bama in a convoy…

Egyptian police said Friday a man died in clashes as tensions soared in Cairo following a bus bombing and further arrests of members of the Muslim Brotherhood after its listing as a terrorist group. Defiant student supporters of the Brotherhood protested…

The United States on Thursday reaffirmed its vow to cut aid to violence-wracked South Sudan if the government of President Salva Kiir is overthrown in a coup. Troops loyal to Kiir have been battling forces allied to former vice president Riek Machar…

The death toll from clashes in the Central African Republic’s capital has risen to at least 40, the Red Cross said Thursday, as French troops upped patrols in the city in a bid to stem the violence. “Around 40 bodies have been recovered for the moment…