Nigeria’s military has surrounded a village in the northeast to flush out Islamist rebels who fled there after reportedly snatching soldiers’ wives and children during a daring attack on an army barracks nearby, witnesses told AFP Saturday. Suspected…
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Fighting escalated on Saturday in South Sudan, with a top commander in the country’s key oil-producing region defecting to the rebels and foreign governments scrambling to evacuate their nationals. A US military aircraft was shot at as it was engaged…
Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson has ordered the conduct of a need analysis exercise in Government House Yenagoa with…
Ekiti State Government has presented five 18-seater passenger buses to the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) Progress FM, Ado…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi on Thursday night urged the citizenry not to relent in their prayers for the…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi (left) receiving an Award of Good Governance from the President, Nigerian-American Chamber for Commerce…
The Imperative of Broadband in Nigeria’s Remotest Villages Speech delivered by: Mr. Kayode Jegede, Special Adviser, Infrastructure and Public Utilities,…
Two alleged fraudsters being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly being in possession of fake…
Battles between rival ethnic groups spread across South Sudan on Friday as foreign governments scrambled to get their nationals away from reported slaughters and a refugee buildup. African ministers pushed President Salva Kiir to start talks with his…
The family of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmet al-Megrahi, the only person convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing which killed 270 people, on Friday told the BBC they hope to appeal against his conviction. Megrahi, who died from cancer in Tripoli last year after…
Scores of suspected Islamist gunmen stormed a military barracks in northeast Nigeria on Friday, spraying gunfire on the troops inside before torching the compound, the army and residents said. The military has reportedly deployed fighter jets and ground…
Sudan expressed fears Friday over the fate of vital oil flows as fighting between rival army factions spread in neighbouring South Sudan. Sudan’s cash-starved economy is to receive an estimated $1.5 billion (1.1 billion euros) in fees from South Sudan…
A Nigerian court on Friday sentenced the man behind a 2011 Christmas Day bombing to life in prison, in one of the highest profile convictions linked to the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency. Rights group have been pressuring Nigeria to take more Boko Haram…
TUNIS, Tunisia, December 18, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB)…
LONDON, United-Kingdom, December 18, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ – The Western Union Company (http://www.westernunion.com/) (NYSE:WU), a leader in global payment…
A total of 1,111 Muslim couples tied the knot at a mass wedding on Thursday in Nigeria’s second largest city of Kano as part of a government to prome stable families. Divorcees and widows were paired up with suitors in a match-making program.
Uganda’s parliament on Friday adopted an anti-homosexuality bill that will see repeat offenders jailed for life, with lawmakers hailing it as a victory against “evil” for the deeply religious nation. Deputies voted overwhelmingly in favour of the text…
More than 1,000 Muslim couples tied the knot at a mass wedding Thursday in Nigeria’s second city of Kano, part of a government programme aimed at promoting stable families. The elaborate event at the city’s central mosque included 1,111 previously divorced…
US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, whose career has in large part been built on advocating for the US to muster all military and diplomatic force to stop what she famously called “The Problem from Hell” in her Pulitzer prize winning…
Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson has urged the Nigerian Navy to expand its operations to cover the Agge axis…