The All Progressive Congress (APC) Youth Frontier in Abuja, said it had defected to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) due…
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Edo STATE GOVERNOR ADAMS OSHIOMHOLE DISPLAYING HIS ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS (APC) MEMBERSHIP CARD AFTER REGISTERING AT IYAMHO, ETSAKO WEST LOCAL…
Igbo youths under the umbrella of Ohanaeze Youth Council (OYC) yesterday lamented that President Goodluck Jonathan has not fulfilled the…
JOHANNESBURG, South-Africa, April 8, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Infobip (http://www.infobip.com), a global provider of mobile messaging and payments, announced…
Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State has described as unfair, the recourse to tagging Fulani as insurgents in Nigeria, saying…
BENIN-ORE ROAD The Federal Government needs N30bn to complete the East-West road project. The Supervising Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr…
In what might sound as a bizarre tale, a mother of four children, Chinelo Okorom Lynnette, 36, has been busted…
MOGADISHU, Somalia, April 8, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) is outrageous by the…
LAGOS, Nigeria, April 8, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The power sector in Nigeria is undergoing positive reform, paving the…
NEW YORK, April 8, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN…
NEW YORK, April 8, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The following Security Council press statement was issued by Council President…
ON SATURDAY, April 5th, South Africa was Africa’s largest economy. The IMF put its GDP at $354 billion last year, well ahead of its closest rival for the crown, Nigeria. By Sunday afternoon that had changed. Nigeria’s statistician-general announced…
Global oil prices advanced on Tuesday on renewed Ukraine tensions after pro-Russian protesters seized government buildings in the eastern city of Donetsk. New York’s West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for delivery in May won 77 cents to $101.21 per barrel…
NATO warned Russia on Tuesday against making an “historic mistake” by provoking a flaring secession crisis in eastern Ukraine that Moscow itself conceded could degenerate into a civil war. Ukraine’s embattled interim leaders have been waging an uphill…
Spanish lawmakers are set to vote Tuesday to shoot down Catalonia’s quest for an independence referendum, setting the stage for a bitter sovereignty struggle. In a showdown in the Spanish parliament, more than 80 percent of lawmakers will reject Catalonia…
Queen Elizabeth welcomed the Irish president to Britain on Tuesday for the first time since the republic became independent, in a historic state visit consolidating ties between the once hostile neighbours. The four-day trip by President Michael D.…
11:42 GMT – Big questions – Some big questions have emerged from Pistorius’s testimony about the night of the shooting, writes AFP’s southern Africa news editor Andrew Beatty. “If he shouted why did Steenkamp not answer? “If the room was dark — the…
Pakistan’s street children footballers returned home Tuesday to jubilant scenes after clinching the bronze medal in Brazil, with captain Sameer Ahmed hailing the “once in a lifetime” experience. Competing for the first time in the Street Child World…
Under mounting pressure from Moscow, a defiant group of pro-Ukrainian activists, journalists and minority representatives in Crimea continue to protest the annexation of the peninsula by Russia. “We know very well that we are being watched,” said Anna…
England and the Republic of Ireland will play a friendly at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium on June 7 next year, the Football Association and Football Association of Ireland announced on Tuesday. “It will be a significant moment for England to play in Dublin…