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…
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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…
ABUJA, Nigeria, November 27, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Participants at the just-concluded 4th Annual Forum of the ECOWAS Regional…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, November 27, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Commissioner for Peace and Security of the African Union…
TOKYO, Japan, November 27, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — 1. Japan welcomes that the first round of presidential election took…
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 27, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — MSF renews call to the international community, especially UN agencies, to…
HARARE, Zimbabwe, November 27, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Zimbabwe Multi-Donor Trust Fund (ZimFund) is a short to medium…
LAGOS, Nigeria, November 27, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Tony Elumelu, the entrepreneur, philanthropist and chairman of Heirs Holdings Limited…
TUNIS, Tunisia, November 27, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The African Development Bank Group’s (AfDB) (http://www.afdb.org) efforts to improve sustainable…
The Federal Government and major automobile importers in Nigeria have agreed to fashion out a collective action plan for the…
Former Oyo State Head of Service, Mrs Kudirat Adeleke and eleven other accused persons who are being prosecuted by the…
PARIS, France, November 27, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The UN Security Council met two days ago to discuss different…
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 27, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Thousands of people in eastern Puntland are trying to cope with…
WASHINGTON, November 27, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The World Bank Board of Directors today approved an IDA* credit of…
TUNIS, Tunisia, November 27, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The African Development Bank (AfDB) (http://www.afdb.org), together with the Center for…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, November 27, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU),…
The Director-General of Oyo State Public Works Department, Engineer Taiwo Akintola has attributed the free flow of traffic in Ibadan and other parts of the State to the massive road rehabilitation, construction of bridges and the Urban Renewal Programme of the Governor Abiola Ajimobi’s administration. Akintola, while speaking on the NTA, Ibadan personality interview programme […]