Erstwhile political adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, Alhaji Ahmed Gulak, has resigned his position as the national coordinator of Goodluck…
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Saudi health authorities announced Saturday two new deaths from the MERS coronavirus, raising to 111 the number of fatalities since the disease appeared in the kingdom in September 2012. A 25-year-old man has died in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah…
India’s Sun Pharma said Saturday it will take “appropriate action” after a court suspended the generic giant’s $3.2-billion takeover of troubled rival Ranbaxy while insider trading allegations are probed. The Andhra Pradesh High Court order, dated April…
Hundreds of exhausted illegal migrants reached the safety of a northern Sudanese town Saturday, an AFP journalist said, after 10 died when human traffickers abandoned them in the desert. A convoy of six Sudanese army trucks delivered the migrants to…
Afghan officials said Saturday that a maximum of about 500 people died in a landslide that engulfed a village, updating earlier information that 2,500 people were feared dead. “The first figure that we announced was obtained from local people, not from…
Chinese authorities have slapped Internet giant Sina Corp. with a fine of more than $815,000 over “unhealthy and indecent content”, the company announced. The “administrative fine” of 5.1 million yuan ($815,038) was imposed by the Beijing Municipal…
Barely two weeks after it was reported that the number of policemen posted to the Adamawa State Government House were…
Governors of the 19 northern states have paid tribute to the late Second Republic Deputy Senate President, Senator John Wash…
With the rampant bombings by the Boko Haram insurgents, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo has written an open letter to the Islamist sect…
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday vowed that Washington will do “everything possible” to help Nigeria deal with Boko Haram militants, following the kidnapping of scores of schoolgirls. “Let me be clear. The kidnapping of hundreds of children…
The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) party has charged Nigerians to jettison parochial interests and join forces with government by…
As part of efforts to ensure a successful hosting of the World Economic Forum Africa meeting, President Goodluck Jonathan has…
WASHINGTON, May 3, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — RemarksJohn KerrySecretary of StateEmbassy JubaJuba, South SudanMay 2, 2014SECRETARY KERRY: Well, good…
Sequel to the bomb explosions that rocked Nyanya twice in three weeks, the Chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council, AMAC,…
A 35-year-old caterer, Oyinyechi Ezirim, has been arrested in Lagos for attempting to smuggle cannabis popularly called Indian hemp, concealed…
A 2-storey building, yesterday, collapsed at Ologuneru in Ido Local Government area of Ibadan, Oyo State, trapping a tipper driver…
More than two weeks after over 200 girls were abducted by Islamist sect, President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday set up a…
Founder of the Niger Delta Peoples Volunteer Force, Alhaji Asari Dokubo has warned that no amount of threat would stop…
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), yesterday, condemned the Thursday night bomb attack at the Nyanya motor park which occurred…
Suspected Boko Haram terrorists have struck again in Borno, killing 10 persons, just as 19 suspected insurgents were killed in…