Justice O. A. Adeniyi of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on Friday May 16, 2014 convicted…
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GENEVA, Switzerland, May 19, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) regrets that it…
OSLO, Norway, May 19, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Five million people in South sudan are in acute need of…
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 19, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — UN humanitarian CHIEF VALERIE AMOS TO CO-CHAIR SOUTH SUDAN humanitarian CONFERENCE…
The Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN) has appealed against the judgment of a Federal High Court in Lagos which…
MOHAMMED BUHARI The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested one Mohammed Buhari, said to be an adopted son…
A man accused of sending sexually explicit and violent messages to the Labour MP Stella Creasy on Twitter is due to stand trial on Monday. Creasy, the MP for Walthamstow in north London, received abuse on Twitter along with campaigner Caroline Criado…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered an end to military exercises in regions bordering Ukraine, the Kremlin said Monday, while also calling on Kiev to immediately withdraw troops from east Ukraine. “Due to the end of the planned spring training…
The English Premier League is to hold a meeting Monday where it will discuss the conduct of a chief executive caught up in a sexism row. Last week Britain’s Sunday Mirror newspaper published leaked private e-mails sent by Premier League chief executive…
Australia said Monday it will spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a new icebreaker ship to bolster its claim over large areas of Antarctica and replace an ageing vessel. Environment Minister Greg Hunt said two Europe-based firms had been shortlisted…
The Philippine economy will more than double in the next decade as earnings from overseas workers and business outsourcing surge, a respected US-based think-tank said Monday. Once the region’s perennial economic laggard, the Southeast Asian country…
DUBLIN, Ireland, May 19, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Minister for Trade and Development Joe Costello, TD, has called for…
France’s foreign minister offered China his country’s help on Sunday in locating 10 workers feared kidnapped by Boko Haram militants, as African leaders joined forces to fight the terrorist group. “We have already told our Chinese friends that we were…
An aide to Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, Mr John Akhigbe, said on Sunday that the governor had not picked…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said President Goodluck Jonathan’s aborted trip to Chibok, where 276 school girls were abudcted,…
Gov. IDRIS WADA OF KOGI (L) IN A HANDSHAKE WITH THE EMIR OF ZAZZAU, Alhaji SHEHU IDRIS, AT THE PUBLIC…
The Kano State Independent Electoral Commission (KANSIEC) has declared the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) winner of Saturday’s local government…
The Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Tony Anenih, said on Sunday that President Goodluck…
Get ready Africa (and the United States) because Abubakar Shekau, the still-somewhat-shadowy, thirty-something leader of Bobo Haram, the Islamic terrorist group that kidnapped 300 Nigerian schoolgirls, has a role model: the late and unlamented Osama…
Video News by NewsLook Nigeria and four neighboring countries vowed to wage “war” against Boko Haram at a security meeting with U.S. and European Union officials in Paris.