Nigeria’s highest ranking military officer on Monday gave a glimmer of hope to the families of more than 200 schoolgirls held by Boko Haram militants, revealing they had located the missing teenagers. But Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Alex…
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The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday assured that the August 9 governorship poll in Osun State would be free…
Osun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday called on security agencies in the state to ensure the…
TOKYO, Japan, May 26, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — 1. Japan welcomes the fact that the second round voting for…
Barcelona defender Gerard Pique has signed a new four-year contract extension at the Catalan giants. The former Manchester United defender…
It has come to the notice of the Ekiti State Government through a National Newspaper publication, that His Excellency, Dr.…
Renowned Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmed Abubakar Gumi, has taken a swipe at the military, over what he called vandalism and…
The Gombe State Government said it would use the Children’s Day celebration to pray for the release of the abducted…
EL FASHER (DARFUR), Sudan, May 26, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Darfur Internal Dialogue and Consultation (DIDC) Implementation Committee…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, May 26, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — SECOND FIELD MISSION OF THE African UNION COMMISSION OF INQUIRY…
The Federal Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Japanese Government for $85 million dollars (N1.38 billion)…
Former Governor of Kebbi State, Alhaji Adamu Aliero, has rejected the claims in some quarters that northern states governors and…
The Sultan of Sokoto and President of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar has condemned the…
26 May 2014 – Senior United Nations officials today demanded that Republic of the Congo immediately stop expelling citizens from…
25 May 2014 – The world must do more to unleash Africa’s full potential in agriculture, United Nations Secretary-General Ban…
24 May 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his special representative in Somalia, Nicholas Kay, as well as…
24 May 2014 – Armed men in Sudan’s western region today killed a Rwandan peacekeeper and injured three others resulting…
Jordan on Monday expelled Syria’s ambassador over his “repeated insults” to the kingdom, drawing a swift tit-for-tat response from Damascus, which ordered Amman’s top diplomat to leave. On the battlefield, Syrian rebels made advances in the war-torn…
Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday said the United States will back the new Ukraine leader and support its people, after presidential polls at the weekend. “We will support their efforts to determine their own future in a more united, secure, independent…
A fierce battle erupted Monday for control of the main airport in rebel-held eastern Ukraine, just hours after president-elect Petro Poroshenko vowed he would not let the country become another Somalia. Ukrainian fighter jets and combat helicopters…