5 May 2014 – The United Nations Security Council strongly condemned today’s deadly terrorist attack in Sana’a, as well as…
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5 May 2014 – Gunfire stopped distribution of food today in a besieged Palestinian refugee camp, a United Nations spokesperson…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has mourned the death of the Lagos State Governor, Sir Michael Otedola. The Governor…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday reassured the international community that the Federal Government would do everything possible to ensure the…
Lagos State AIDS Control Agency has revealed that 1,702 pregnant women in the state tested positive to HIV and had…
Forensic DNA technology could help identify and reunite with their families the more than 200 Nigerian girls who were kidnapped by Islamist militants, scientists told AFP Tuesday. Software already exists to match missing people with their relatives,…
Major-General Chris Olukolade stood outside the Nigerian Defence Headquarters in Abuja and raised his hands for silence, as 100 or so men and women sat in the road blocking traffic. In front of him opposite the Old Parade Ground, the protesters, most…
Alibaba — often described as a Chinese version of Amazon or eBay — filed documents Tuesday for its US stock listing, widely expected to be one of the largest offerings in history. The initial filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission indicates…
Nigerian parents on Tuesday said their worst fears about their daughters’ fates had been confirmed after Boko Haram, which kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls last month, threatened to sell the hostages as “slaves.” Abubakar Shekau, who leads the Islamist…
Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky broke her silence Tuesday about her illicit 1990s affair with president Bill Clinton, saying she wants to reclaim the narrative of events that brought her global humiliation. Lewinsky, now 40, was in her early…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on May 5, 2014 arraigned one Enekwechi Raymond Onyimba before the Chief Judge…
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 6, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM’s 4th return intention survey of camps for internally displaced persons…
The Lagos State Government on Tuesday threatened to sanction any church or mosque found disturbing public peace with noise from…
The United States offered Tuesday to send a team of experts to Nigeria to help find 200 kidnapped schoolgirls amid…
The Police Command in Kano State said on Tuesday that it had recovered two rifles from a dustbin in Kano…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday commiserated with Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on the death of a former governor…
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 6, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights…
US actress Angelina Jolie on Tuesday condemned as “unthinkable cruelty and evil” the kidnapping of over 200 schoolgirls in Nigeria by Boko Haram Islamists. The star was speaking in Paris about the themes of her latest film “Maleficent” for Disney, in…
A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Umar Na’abba, on Monday in Abuja, faulted the elevation of Senate…
The Peoples’ Democratic Party, PDP, flag bearer in the August 9 governorship election in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, yesterday…