Browsing: West African News

PARIS, France, May 26, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — After the CTIC incubator in Senegal and the Ebène project in…

OSLO, Norway, May 26, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Minister of Foreign Affairs Børge Brende condemns the attack on the…

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 26, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Fifty people detained in connection with recent clashes in Kidal have…

Abuja (Vice President’s Office Report) – Nigeria’s Vice President, Mohammed Namadi Sambo has urged Nigerians, particularly the Muslim Ummah to…

ABUJA (National Planning Commission Report) The Supervising Minister/Deputy Chairman of the National Planning Commission, Bashir Yuguda has formally launched the…

Report from Vice President’s Office. Vice President Namadi Sambo has urged Nigerians, particularly the Muslim Ummah to pray fervently for…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) continues to contend with a ‘leadership tussle’ in the build- up to the 2015 general…

Boko Haram is probably beyond the reach of global sanctions but attempts to curb the Nigerian Islamists’ reign of terror is an indication of growing international commitment, analysts said. The UN Security Council this week designated the extremist…

At least 24 people were killed on Sunday when Boko Haram gunmen raided a village in northeast Nigeria, where the Islamists have stepped up deadly attacks on villages in recent months, residents told AFP. Dozens of motorcycle-riding gunmen stormed Kamuya…

The abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria last month was “contrary to the teachings of Islam”, the head of the African Union (AU) said at an event to mark Africa Day on Sunday. “We strongly condemn the abduction of the young, innocent schoolgirls…

Nigeria’s Niger Delta Sunday declared that it would settle for nothing less than a new constitution premised on Autonomy or…

Sokoto State Governor, Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko, has said he would compel members of the state executive council to give out…

The Lagos State Government has described the strike embarked on by lecturers of the Lagos State University (LASU) as an…

Former Defence Minister, General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (rtd), on Saturday told a gathering at the 40th coronation anniversary of the…

Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang has stated that the insecurity confronting Nigeria is the outcome of earlier threat by some…

Islamic clerics resident in the United States have called for the immediate release of over 200 schoolgirls abducted in Chibok,…

A non-government forum of Ekiti Stakeholders, e-eleven has approached the Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti to seek the disqualification…

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BAMAKO, Mali, May 25, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — H.E. Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, President of the Islamic Republic of…

Catholic Bishop of Ekiti Diocese, Most Rev Felix Femi Ajakaye yesterday had messages from the pulpit for both the Federal…