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British hate preacher Abu Hamza clashed angrily with a US prosecutor at his New York terror trial on Tuesday, denying claims that bomb-making plans had once been found in his prison cell. Taking to the witness stand for a fourth day, Mustafa Kamel Mustafa…

The commander of US forces in Africa held talks Tuesday in Nigeria as Washington sought to help the government in Abuja trace more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamist militants. General David Rodriguez, head of US Africa Command, flew to Nigeria…

GENEVA, Switzerland, May 13, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM has distributed some 13.7 tons of food to some 1,400…

In what appears like a volte face, the Federal Government has declared its readiness to open talks with Boko Haram…

The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed an appeal brought by Steve Ugbah, the 2011 Benue gubernatorial candidate of the Action…

The National Conference Committee on Political Restructuring and Forms of Government yesterday recommended that membership of the proposed unicameral legislature…

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, flag bearer in the August 9 Osun governorship elections, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has said that…

Western embassies in Sudan expressed “deep concern” on Tuesday over the case of a woman who activists say risks a death sentence for apostasy. Meriam Yahia Ibrahim Ishag, who says she is Christian, was convicted last Sunday in the Khartoum-area district…

North Korea vowed “merciless” reprisals on Tuesday after a South Korean military official suggested the isolated Stalinist nation should simply disappear. Speaking to reporters in Seoul on Monday, Defence Ministry spokesman Kim Min-Seok had argued that…

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday rejected growing criticism that his government was muzzling the press, saying many Western countries had even worse records on media freedom. Erdogan’s speech to parliament followed a report by…

President Goodluck Jonathan is seeking for the extension of the state of emergency in three North-Eastern states of Borno, Adamawa…

Nigeria Union Journalists (NUJ), Plateau State chapter, members of the Civil Society Organisations (CSO) and the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) today…

Senate President David Mark, on Tuesday insisted that the Federal Government would not enter into talks with the Boko Haram…

Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero of Kaduna State, on Monday threatened to personally deal with anyone, no mattr how highly placed,…

THE Controversial PHOTO SHOWING THE Naira SIGN Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has decried the twist introduced to a photograph…

Global wine consumption fell marginally in 2013 and the United States outstripped France as the top consumer, the International Organisation of Wine and Vine (OIV) said Tuesday. Consumption dipped 1 percent last year to 238.7 hectolitres of wine in…

A French journalist has been killed while on a reporting assignment in Central African Republic, French President Francois Hollande said Tuesday in a statement, vowing to make every effort to shed light on the murder. “The president learned with great…

Middle-aged municipal worker Masha bent down in her green parks department overall to tend the pristine flowerbeds on a tree-lined avenue in downtown Donetsk. “We don’t know who will be paying our salaries from now on,” she said, digging around in the…

Nigeria on Tuesday said it was willing to talk to Boko Haram militants, as the United States sent its top Africa general for talks on the rescue mission of more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls. The governor of Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, Kashim…

President Barack Obama has been briefed by his top advisors after a second case of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was discovered on US soil, the White House said Tuesday. “The president has been briefed on this development … Our team…