A Federal High Court sitting in Yenegoa, Balyesa State has convicted three Indian nationals, Sailesh Kumar Singh, (the Captain of…
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The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, Ayo Fayose has described the volte face by Governor Kayode Fayemi on the conduct…
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 15, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — A group of African and UN human rights experts* today called…
NEW YORK, May 15, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Juba from Abu Dhabi…
LONDON, United-Kingdom, May 15, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Egyptian Foreign Minister meets Foreign Secretary William Hague and Minister of…
The Borno State Government has released the list of 23 more students of Government Secondary School, Chibok, whose identities were…
The newly established 7 Division of the Nigerian Army is to institute a military board of inquiry into the remote…
The Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese, Most Rev. Paulinus Ezeokafor, has urged the Federal Government not to succumb to the…
Six women were, yesterday, arraigned before a Lokoja Chief Magistrate Court over their alleged involvement in the kidnap of two…
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — In late 2012, armed groups began a rebellion that sparked a period…
WASHINGTON, May 15, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — EXECUTIVE ORDERBLOCKING PROPERTY OF CERTAIN PERSONS CONTRIBUTINGTO THE CONFLICT IN THE Central…
A federal prosecutor urged a New York jury to convict Islamist cleric Abu Hamza on kidnapping and terrorism charges, insisting in closing arguments the evidence against him was “simply overwhelming.” “The real Abu Hamza is not the man you see now in…
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan has ruled out the release of Boko Haram fighters in exchange for the freedom of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by the militants a month ago. Britain’s Africa minister Mark Simmonds, in Nigeria for talks about…
The US military is flying surveillance drones as well as manned aircraft over Nigeria to help the search for more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist extremists, the Pentagon said Wednesday. However, the data is not yet being shared with the…
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan’s bid to extend an ineffective year-long state of emergency in the northeast has exposed him as an out-of-touch leader with no credible plan to end a brutal Islamist conflict, experts said. Few dispute the severity…
Video News by NewsLook Abramson, the Times’ first female executive editor, was abruptly let go Wednesday to the surprise of the Times staff.
Security has been stepped up in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State following threats of attack by Boko Haram on major institutions,…
Three Indians have been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by a Federal High Court sitting in Yenegoa, Bayelsa State over…
In Rasovo in northwest Bulgaria, the most impoverished area of the EU’s poorest country, the village square is newly paved and the church has been whitewashed, courtesy of development funds from Brussels. But there is no masking the fact that 25 years…
Two British journalists were recovering in Turkey on Thursday after being shot and beaten by rebel kidnappers while covering the Syrian conflict, the Times reported. Times writer Anthony Loyd was shot twice in the leg while being held captive and photographer…