The Governor of Delta State , Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has advised the various ethnic groups in the country to forge…
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Wife of Ekiti State Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi, has advised the National Council of Women’s Societies to conduct credible elections…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi and candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), says his administration has been able…
Unemployed youths in Imo have been advised to enrol in the “Youth Must Work Programme” of the state government to…
Troops just drafted to Nasarawa and Benue states to put a stop to the wanton destruction of lives and property…
The Minister of Finance, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said World Bank’s “extreme poor nation” rating of Nigeria was based on the…
Dr. Muhammed Nazeef Yunus A Federal High Court in Abuja has rejected the invitation by the Federal Government to try…
ALGIERS, Algeria, April 3, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Press AvailabilityJohn KerrySecretary of StateAlgiers, AlgeriaApril 3, 2014QUESTION: (Via interpreter, in…
ALGIERS, Algeria, April 3, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — RemarksJohn KerrySecretary of StateAlgiers, AlgeriaApril 3, 2014Shukran, thank you. Good morning,…
Venezuelan riot police fired water cannons and tear gas Thursday at stone-throwing student protesters in the capital Caracas, leaving at least seven injured. Demonstrators had initially been riled by armed vigilantes they link to the government after…
The United States said Thursday it has voiced concern to Iran on its potential selection of a UN ambassador with alleged links to the 1979 seizure of the US embassy. Iran has not announced a nominee to be its ambassador in the United Nations. But a…
Colombia’s Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez was being treated at a Mexico City hospital for a lung infection Thursday, his son and officials said. The health ministry said the 87-year-old author of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” has…
David Letterman, a pillar of American late-night TV talk shows, announced Thursday that he’ll be stepping down as host of “Late Night” on CBS next year after a 22-year run. “We don’t have the timetable for this precisely down,” said Letterman, 66,…
American senior citizens are gradually finding their way to the Internet, but lagging the overall population in online usage, a survey showed Thursday. The Pew Research Center report showed that 59 percent of US adults age 65 or older use the Internet…
The US Senate’s intelligence panel voted 11-3 Thursday to declassify hundreds of pages of its detailed report on the CIA’s controversial Bush-era interrogation program. The move allows Senator Dianne Feinstein, the powerful chair of the Intelligence…
Ukraine’s Western-backed leaders on Thursday blamed Russian agents and the country’s ousted president of organising two days of bloodshed in February that claimed nearly 90 lives. The explosive allegations were levelled only moments before Russia responded…
Global police body Interpol on Thursday called for concerted international action to stem the highly lucrative tiger trade “if the species is to avoid extinction.” In a statement, the Lyon-based body called for the creation of a “cohesive global strategy…
A United States Chamber of Commerce representative made the official announcement today that the Copyright Alert System, also known as the “six-strike” system, is now fully in place across Internet Service Providers. We first caught wind of this…
Ground sensors and satellites will be deployed in a new bid to keep the ancient Roman city of Pompeii from crumbling following a series of recent collapses at the sprawling and long-neglected site near Naples. Italian aerospace and defence giant Finmeccanica…
The original scroll on which the Marquis de Sade wrote the draft of his novel on sexual depravity, murder and paedophilia “The 120 Days of Sodom” has finally been returned to France following years of legal wrangling. The parchment piece — originally…