Nigeria, under fire internationally for banning gay marriage and alleged abuses while tackling Islamist insurgents, on Wednesday received its first visit from the United Nations human rights commissioner. But Navi Pillay said she had not come to Africa…
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Nigeria on Wednesday re-imposed a telephone blackout on many parts of Nigeria’s northeast Borno state, the base of Boko Haram Islamists who have intensified attacks that has claimed scores of lives, the army said. “GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication…
Nigeria must reform its oil sector to end decades of suspicion of widespread corruption and build up public trust, the country’s finance minister said in an article published on Thursday. The minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said that an investigation…
WASHINGTON, March 13, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Press StatementJen PsakiDepartment Spokesperson, Office of the SpokespersonWashington, DCMarch 12, 2014The AU…
NEW YORK, March 12, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — [AS DELIVERED] Madam President, Members of the Council Thank you for…
MONROVIA, Liberia, March 12, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Liberian President Ellen Sirleaf, along with Liberian Minister of Gender and…
L-R: Head of Service, Ekiti State, Mr. Bunmi Famosaya, Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi; Deputy Governor, Prof. Modupe Adelabu;…
In furtherance of his unflinching support for President Goodluck Jonathan, Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State, urged all presidential aspirants…
Abia State Governor, Chief Theodore Orji, has charged Abia delegates to the forthcoming national conference to represent the state well…
The Ogun State government says making potable water available for residents of the State is one of its priorities,…
Efforts of the Ogun State Government to increase cassava production has received yet another boost as it has secured…
Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun has forwarded two executive bills on Urban and Regional Planning and the State…
The peaceful conduct of the June 21 governorship election, maintenance of peace and the safety of lives and properties were…
L-R: Chairman, Board of Directors, Senior Citizens Care Foundation, SCCF, Prince Adesumbo Ajibola; Former Attorney General and Minister for Justice,…
L-R: Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina; Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Mr. Babajide Arowosafe; Ekiiti…
The Ogun State Government has issued guidelines for property inspections which have commenced under its ongoing Homeowners’ Charter Programme…
Any worker employed into the Ogun State Civil Service in whatever form between 2008 and now but has failed…
Modern Nigeria emerged through the merging of two British colonial territories in 1914. The amalgamation was an act of colonial convenience. It occurred mainly because British colonizers desired a contiguous colonial territory stretching from the arid…
KADUNA, Nigeria — For years, they were out to kill each other. And they almost did. But now Pastor James Wuye and the Imam Muhammad Ashafa work side by side trying to heal the divide between Nigeria’s Christians and Muslims as the heads of the Interfaith…
KAFANCHAN, Nigeria — The highway from Kaduna wove through a maze of military checkpoints and then continued past the rusting hulks of abandoned factories and textile mills that long ago left Nigeria, as did the jobs they once produced. Down the highway…