The Nigerian Government has set up a National Joint Task Force for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse and Violence…
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Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson has identified lack of business initiatives, indolence and irresponsible behavior as contributing factors to unemployment and…
JOHANNESBURG, South-Africa, April 22, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — AfricaBusiness.com is an online business website about Africa. Africa Business Magazine…
The Federal Government of has set up a National Joint Task Force for the Prevention of Child s*xual Abuse and…
An angry mob, yesterday, threatened to burn down a building rumoured to be a suspected ritualists’ den in Ijaiye area…
Information Minister Mr. Labaran Maku has called on Christians and Muslims in the country to unite in order to defeat…
Men of the Benue State Police Command yesterday confirmed that a three-month old baby belonging to one Mr Ikyavngi Imande…
Islamist sect Boko Haram seems to have found another way of hurting innocent Nigerians as the number of secondary school…
Dr Sam Amadi, Chairman, Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Monday said electricity generation nationwide would hit 12,000 mega watts before…
Mexico bid farewell to its beloved adopted son, Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, with thousands of fans filing past his ashes in a music-filled tribute to the Nobel laureate. A coffee-colored urn containing his ashes was placed on a pedestal…
US pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly said Tuesday it has reached an agreement to acquire the animal health division of Novartis of Switzerland for $5.4 billion (3.9 billion euros). In a statement Eli Lilly said the deal will strengthen and diversify its…
Airport authorities in Japan launched a frantic scramble to change security pass codes, an official said Tuesday, the day before Barack Obama arrives, after an airline employee dropped a memo containing the details. The news came as security in the…
Bulky, brash and wildly popular in Europe and the US, the urban 4×4 is the latest must-have for Chinese drivers, whose conversion to the cult of the SUV is the talking point of this year’s Beijing Auto Show. The SUV (sport utility vehicle), with a distinctive…
Schoenbrunn Palace was Marie-Antoinette’s summer childhood home and the beautiful and tragic Sissi’s favoured residence. Mozart performed there as a child and Napoleon was so smitten he moved in — twice. And from April 30, tourists too can sojourn…
Wrapped in a purple shawl, Mirjan wanders downcast among the ruins of the Islamabad slum where she lived, newly demolished. The authorities in Pakistan’s leafy, affluent capital have declared war on the slums, largely populated by Christians and Afghan…
Coca-Cola was taken to task by the US Supreme Court on Monday, with justices questioning whether a drink sold as fruit juice was the real thing. The US soft drinks giant is being sued by Californian fruit juice maker Pom Wonderful, who accuse Coca-Cola…
Syria has announced it will hold a June 3 presidential election, expected to return Bashar al-Assad to office, as fresh claims emerged of his regime’s use of chemical weapons. Syria’s first presidential election — after constitutional amendments scrapped…
Three men were charged in New York in connection with a $33 million scam over two decades making and selling paintings purportedly by world-famous artists but which were in fact fakes. Among the bogus works were pieces supposedly by Mark Rothko and…
16 April 2014 – A United Nations human rights panel said today that Argentine authorities failed to ensure that a…
16 April 2014 – As the FIFA World Cup in Brazil draws closer, the United Nations agency leading the response…