The Nigerian military on Friday admitted that most of the 129 girls abducted by Boko Haram Islamists from their school in the country’s restive northeast remained missing. The military had claimed on Wednesday that all but eight of the 129 girls snatched…
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The membership of Kano State Executive Council was depleted on Thursday following the resignation of the Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr…
SEN. EMMANUEL BWACHA The senator representing Taraba South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Emmanuel Bwacha, on Thursday traced…
Kiev’s interim government must leave power before pro-Russian militants in eastern Ukraine will abide by an international deal to vacate seized government buildings, a separatist leader said Friday. “We agree that the buildings should be vacated, but…
Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate got to grips with Australia’s beach and bush lifestyles on Friday, watching a life-saving display and a sheep-shearing demonstration as part of their tour Down Under with baby son George. The young royals have…
Delegates representing Civil Society Organisations at the ongoing National Conference in Abuja on Thursday protested the composition of the 20…
The leadership of the 20 standing committees of the National Conference has been released with Ibrahim Coomasie, Florence Ita-Giwa, Bola…
Sequel to media reports that its governors shunned a security meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa on…
The Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, has lambasted politicians, who introduced the no-go area clause…
Governor of Edo State during the aborted Third Republic, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, yesterday, described the allegation of embezzlement of campaign…
As part of efforts to boost small and medium scale enterprises in the state, the government of Bayelsa state has…
WASHINGTON, April 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Funding Opportunity AnnouncementBureau of Population, Refugees, and MigrationApril 16, 2014Funding Opportunity Number:…
The mini-sub searching for missing flight MH370 has reached record depths well beyond its normal operating limits, officials said Friday as it dived on its fifth seabed mission. With no results to show since the Boeing 777 carrying 239 people disappeared…
The National Emergency Management Agency on Thursday released a list of 126 victims admitted in various hospitals in the Federal…
FILE PHOTO For the third time in a week, a mob in Ilorin, Kwara State lynched a suspected female kidnapper…
Alhaji Ibrahim Jega, the Executive Secretary, National Mosque Management Board, Abuja, said on Thursday that the National Mosque was highly…
The Rivers State Police Command has doused tension over a suspected bomb that sent traders and commuters in Port Harcourt,…
The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a Nigerien, Mamodu Bashir Ibrahim, for having carnal knowledge of a woman and…
At least six Nepalese climbing guides have been killed and six others are missing after an avalanche struck Mount Everest early Friday in one of the deadliest accidents on the world’s highest peak, officials said. “Rescuers have already retrieved four…
16 April 2014 – Disaster risk reduction and climate change are closely linked, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today stressed, reiterating to…