A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, Prince Buruji Kashamu, has disowned posters portraying him as eyeing the governorship election in…
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There is palpable apprehension in Ekiti State over the presence of two airplanes, which landed at the neighboring Akure Airport,…
The Federal Government on Wednesday withdrew charges of receiving stolen property worth N100.38 billion against Mohammed Abacha, son of the…
ABUJA (National Conference Report) – The on-going National Conference in Abuja witnessed a heated session on Monday as delegates spoke…
Radical Lagos lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo and 22 others, have been shortlisted by the Legal Practitioners’ Privileges Committee for an…
FILE PHOTO The Police on Wednesday confirmed that 14 people died in Tuesday night’s explosion that rocked a football viewing…
Abuja (National Conference News) – The National Conference in Abuja has tasked states and local governments across the country to…
As the National Conference deliberation progresses, delegates have decided to amend the 1999 Constitution by overwhelmingly voting for the removal…
ABUJA (Ministry of Health News) – The Minister of Health, C.O.Onyebuchi Chukwu in the wake of the current security challenges…
ABUJA (Power Ministry Report) – The Minister of State for Power, Muhammad Wakil has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)…
Four US lawmakers visiting Nigeria called on Sunday for a special fund for victims of the Boko Haram insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives and seen the abduction of dozens of schoolgirls. “Today we call upon the government of Nigeria to establish…
The Imo State police command yesterday said that it had arrested six suspects who, though have not been connected with…
PARIS, France, June 18, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Ingenico Group (Euronext: FR0000125346 – ING) (http://www.ingenico.com), global leader in seamless…
ABUJA, Nigeria, June 18, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — GeoPoll (http://research.geopoll.com), the world’s largest real-time mobile survey platform, today released…
NEW YORK, June 18, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Following is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message, delivered by Chef de…
The Bayelsa state government, the National Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) and the Medical and Health Workers Union of…
The Bayelsa State Government has disbursed the sum of N200 million to the State Scholarship Board for onward transmission to…
His Excellency, Retired Rear Admiral Gboribiogha John Jonah, Deputy Governor of Bayelsa State is to proceed on his annual leave,…
In a classroom at a school for the blind in Mali’s capital Bamako, pupils quietly follow a French lesson taught in braille but it is clear they are impatient to get outside to play football. On the school grounds is a dusty red dirt pitch where three…
An explosion ripped through a football viewing centre in Damaturu, northern Nigeria on Tuesday, police and residents said, as fans gathered to watch the World Cup. The blast at the Crossfire venue, in the Nayi-Nawa area of the state capital of Yobe,…