In the shade of a tree close to the slow waters of the White Nile river, a body killed during the fighting over South Sudan’s town of Bor gathers flies. On the bumpy road towards the heavily fortified compound of the United Nations peacekeepers, another…
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December 23, 2013 Comments Off VICE PRESIDENT MUHAMMED NAMADI SAMBO BEING WEL-COMED BY THE KOGI STATE GOVERNOR ALH. IDRIS WADA…
The special photo selection featuring President Goodluck Jonathan at the Fedral Republic of Nigeria State House in Abuja on December 23, 2013. Federal…
As Christendom celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, Christians across the Country have been urged to reflect and rededicate themselves…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has described the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ as the climax of God’s…
The EFCC is constrained to clarify that, contrary to the sponsored, misguided reports in the media the Commission is NOT…
Abia women from all walks of life gathered in Umuahia, the state capital to celebrate their tenacity and accomplishments under…
Common attributes of successful leaders, whether born with the proverbial golden spoon in the mouth or fortunate enough to have…
24 December 2013 – The Security Council today authorized almost doubling the United Nations peacekeeping force in strife-torn South Sudan…
24 December 2013 – The top United Nations official in Somalia has renewed his call for a timely and credible…
24 December 2013 – The United Nations voiced increasing concern today for the security of 710,000 people uprooted by conflict…
24 December 2013 – Amid ethnically targeted killings, arbitrary detentions, rising displacement and now the discovery of mass graves, the…
23 December 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called a crisis meeting of his top advisers on the deteriorating situation in…
23 December 2013 – Urgent national and international action is crucial to prevent the Central African Republic (CAR) from plunging…
23 December 2013 – The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Kingdom are teaming up to…
23 December 2013 – Three Rome-based United Nations agencies are teaming up on a $2.7 million project to tackle the…
22 December 2013 – Amid escalating tensions and deadly clashes between military factions in South Sudan, the United Nations Mission…
21 December 2013 – The top United Nations official in Somalia congratulated Prime Minister Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed, who was appointed…
Egyptian police arrested on Tuesday Hisham Qandil, who was prime minister under deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, the interior ministry said. The ministry said he was arrested in the desert outside Cairo with a “smuggler attempting to escape…
A mass grave has been found in South Sudan, the United Nations said Tuesday, amid fresh reports of brutal ethnic killings and ongoing battles that threaten to tip the young nation into civil war. UN rights chief Navi Pillay said a mass grave had been…