29 April 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has highlighted the importance of Wednesday’s national elections for peace and stability in…
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28 April 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced alarmed at the news that another preliminary mass death…
A community leader in Chibok, claimed the girls abducted by suspected members of the Boko Haram sect had been sold…
The 102 Guards Battalion of the Nigerian Army said on Tuesday that it arrested a 72-year-old man (namewithheld), for allegedly…
Some women of Chibok, Borno, on Tuesday marched to National Assembly, urging the Federal Government to intensify efforts to rescue…
Nigerian police fired teargas at teachers and students and shot live rounds into the air as they tried to disperse…
Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHEDC, has appealed to the National Assembly to enact a strong anti-theft legislation to empower…
Members of the Civilian Joint Task Force, JTF, in Borno, have vowed to support the military to end terrorism and…
The Association of Local Governments of Nigeria (ALGON) on Tuesday rejected calls for a declaration of a state of emergency…
WASHINGTON, April 29, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — RemarksJohn KerrySecretary of StateTreaty RoomWashington, DCApril 29, 2014SECRETARY KERRY: Good morning, everybody.…
EL FASHER (DARFUR), Sudan, April 29, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The eighth meeting of the Implementation and Follow-up Commission…
JUBA, South Sudan, April 29, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — “I call on all parties to the conflict in South…
GENEVA, Switzerland, April 29, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IPU has kick-started its priority support to Egypt in its efforts…
An Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan, today postponed the re-arraignment of a former Oyo State Head of Service,…
Five persons have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over allegation of fraudulent transfer of a…
The chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Lamorde today, April 28, declared that Local government in…
Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja on Monday, April 28, 2014, dismissed an application asking…
A 68-year-old woman had to be rescued by helicopter on Tuesday after she fell and became trapped on one of the towers of Britain’s historic Wells Cathedral. A Royal Air Force chopper winched the woman 45 metres (150 feet) to safety after she became…
The NBA on Tuesday banned Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling from professional basketball for life over racist comments that the league’s commissioner dubbed “deeply offensive and harmful.” Sterling, an 80-year-old real estate tycoon who bought…
Angola’s long-serving President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos met his French counterpart Francois Hollande on Tuesday on a rare official visit abroad after years of frosty ties caused by a damaging bribery scandal. The two-day visit by the onetime rebel leader…