Follow @{0}Malnutrition is high among the refugeesGBITI, 6 June 2014 (IRIN) – More than 80,000 Central Africans have fled the…
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Follow @{0}Making room for the neighboursLOLO, 3 June 2014 (IRIN) – New open-air butcheries and stalls now flank the unsealed…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has described the death of former Information Minister Prof Dora Akunyili as devastating. The…
Governor Kayode John Fayemi is seeking another term in office to serve the people of Ekiti State on the platform…
Protests have erupted in Kano over the choice of former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the…
The Director of Defence Information, Maj.-Gen. Chris Olukolade, has confirmed that a bomb exploded at a Nigerian Army barracks in…
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has withdrawn the statement it released earlier congratulating Alhaji Sanusi Ado…
The Kano State government have announced former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, as the new…
Anti-racism campaigners reacted with outrage on Sunday to an apparent anti-Semitic pun by France’s former far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen that even his own party and daughter were quick to criticise. SOS Racisme denounced as “the most anti-Semitic…
A car bomb attack and a suicide blast Sunday killed 18 people at a Kurdish political party’s office north of Baghdad and 11 others died in other violence in Iraq. Militants have launched major operations in multiple provinces in recent days, killing…
Three prisoners, deemed extremely dangerous by police, have broken out of a Canadian jail in a helicopter, local media reported, the second such daring jailbreak recently in Quebec. In March 2013, two inmates were lifted on a hijacked helicopter from…
It is with shock that the management and staff of the Federal Ministry of Information received the news of the…
Against the backdrop of the recent approval for self-accounting status for the Nigeria Police Force by President Goodluck Jonathan, the…
(Report from Ministry of Foreign Affairs) The Executive Secretary of Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), Dr. Oluwole Oluleye has commended…
Sanusi Ado Bayero, son of Alhaji Ado Bayero, the deceased Emir of Kano has been chosen to become the next…
Bayelsa State Governor, Hon Seriake Dickson has expressed deep shock, regret and disappointment over the untimely death of Nigeria’s one…
Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State on Thursday advocated greater cooperation among countries of the Commonwealth to address major challenges…
A Nigerian newspaper said that it was prevented from distributing thousands of copies of its Saturday edition by soldiers, just days after it ran a story alleging corruption among army generals. The Weekly Trust, a national weekly newspaper based in…
Tributes have flooded the media as news of the death of former Information Minister, Dora Akunyili hit the airwaves after…
Former Minister of Information and Communication and erstwhile Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and…