The Independent Service Delivery Monitoring Group (ISDMG), Centre for Transparency Advocacy, a civil society coalition, on Saturday, 23rd November, 2013…
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The Federal Government of Nigeria has advocated for technology transfer in tackling water sector challenges in Nigeria as this will…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Wednesday November 27, 2013 arraigned one Richard Onomeh Akaighe, before Justice Abubakar of…
Nigeria’s 2015 presidential elections could descend into chaos if alleged irregularities and bungling in a key local vote are repeated nationally, politicians and activists are warning. Nearly two weeks after voters went to the polls to elect a new…
In its bid to open up the hinterlands for investment, tourism and other socio-economic activities, Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake…
NAIROBI, Kenya, November 28, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) and the…
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 28, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — In Mali, despite a certain political normalization, the armed conflict that…
TUNIS, Tunisia, November 28, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The African Development Bank’s (AfDB) (http://www.afdb.org) work in clean energy financing…
ABUJA, Nigeria, November 28, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — A capacity building workshop for experts from the ECOWAS Commission, its…
WASHINGTON, November 28, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Press StatementJohn KerrySecretary of StateWashington, DCNovember 27, 2013On behalf of the American…
LONDON, United-Kingdom, November 28, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Foreign Secretary meets Moroccan Foreign Minister and reaffirms the strength of…
In Nigeria’s northern city if Kano, enforcers of Sharia law patrol the streets looking for evidence of un-Islamic behaviour — homosexuality, western haircuts, revealing clothing or even ‘romancing’. Duration: 02:47
Gunmen in central Nigeria’s Plateau state killed 37 people in a pre-dawn raid Tuesday, the military said, in the latest unrest to hit the area gripped by a decade-long sectarian conflict. Duration: 00:57
Nigeria is to revert to paper banknotes, the country’s central bank has announced, in a policy switch bucking a growing trend around the world for tougher polymer-based currency. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) signed a deal in 2006 with Australia…
Gunmen in central Nigeria’s Plateau state killed 37 people in a pre-dawn raid Tuesday, the military said, the latest unrest to hit the area gripped by a decade-long sectarian conflict. “At about 2:00 am (0100 GMT) unknown gunmen carried out an attack…
A group of Nigerian state governors who defected from the ruling party on Tuesday joined a new opposition mega-party, officials said, in the latest political blow to President Goodluck Jonathan. Jonathan’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has controlled…
MTN Nigeria’s CEO – Michael Ikpoki MTN Nigeria’s CEO – Michael Ikpoki Its been the busiest of year for Telecommunications giant MTN Nigeria with respect to lawsuits. However, we can’t help but savor the Mobile Number Portability moments and…
Six men in green uniform stand in the back of a pick-up truck in northern Nigeria’s biggest city, on the look-out for prostitutes, their clients, transvestites, drunks and drug addicts. Their patrols in Kano also scout for men and women deemed to be…
Nigeria’s ruling party said on Wednesday that it was unfazed by the defection of powerful state governors to the main opposition, despite it tipping the balance of power in the run-up to elections in 2015. Seven governors first broke with President…
Police enforcing Islamic law in Nigeria’s city of Kano publicly destroyed some 240,000 bottles of beer on Wednesday, the latest move in a wider crackdown on behaviour deemed “immoral” in the area. The banned booze had been confiscated from trucks coming…