Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, Abuja has fixed May 27,2014, for ruling on the application for bail…
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A forensic analyst with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Muktar Bello, on May 22, 2014, told a Federal…
DUBLIN, Ireland, May 23, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — ireland will provide an additional €2 million to support life-saving work…
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 23, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — More than 315 cholera cases have been recorded in South sudan…
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 23, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM has completed a registration of a total of 28,968 internally…
EL FASHER (DARFUR), Sudan, May 23, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — On 20 May 2014, UNAMID Force Commander Lt. Gen.…
STASBOURG, France, May 23, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — A delegation of six MEPs will observe the Presidential elections in…
Governors under the aegis of Northern Governors Forum have lampooned the Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, over his recent…
At least five people were killed in fighting early Friday between pro-Russian militiamen and Ukrainian forces near the eastern city of Donetsk, an AFP photographer said. The photographer said he saw five bodies near the village of Karlivka northwest…
Honda Motor said Friday it has cut production in its Thai plant by 40 percent, blaming a drop in demand, the day after the country’s army chief seized power in a military coup. “We have cut the volume of production to 60 percent of the plant’s annual…
Disgraced British fashion designer John Galliano, little-seen since being sacked by Dior in 2011 for making drunken racist tirades, reappeared in Moscow Thursday as creative director of a Russian cosmetics chain. The L’Etoile chain, which has some 850…
Scandal-hit Barclays has been fined more than £26 million pounds after a former trader at the bank was accused of trying to manipulate the price of gold, Britain’s financial regulator said on Friday. The Financial Conduct Authority said in a statement…
The International Criminal Court on Friday sentenced Congolese warlord Germain Katanga to 12 years in jail for arming an ethnic militia that carried out a “particularly cruel” 2003 village massacre. “The chamber sentences Germain Katanga to 12 years…
Thousands of Brazilians backing a movement to help homeless workers rallied in Sao Paulo to protest a lack of housing, shoddy public services and huge spending on the World Cup. Police put attendance at 15,000 while organizers said it was more than…
North Korea said Friday it will send athletes to this year’s Asian Games in South Korea, the first time it has participated in a major sporting event there for more than a decade and despite simmering tensions between the neighbours. “The Olympic Committee…
UKIP dealt a major blow to mainstream parties Friday with initial results of local elections in England showing strong gains for the eurosceptic party. Nigel Farage predicted his party could chalk up some 200 council seats by the end of the day after…
The United Nations blacklisted and imposed sanctions on Boko Haram as an Al-Qaeda-linked terror group Thursday, a month after it claimed the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls. The designation, which was immediately welcomed by Britain…
The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, yesterday, instituted a fresh legal action against the two chambers of the…
Chibok girls: I am not slow— GEJ President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, condemned in strong terms the insinuation by some Nigerians…
France, yesterday, declared that the Boko Haram sect will be treated like Al-Qaeda, as the sect continues unleashing terror in…