NEW YORK, April 1, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Somali authorities in the…
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MOGADISHU, Somalia, April 1, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia, Nicholas…
President Goodluck Jonathan is scheduled to depart Abuja today for Brussels, Belgian capital, as leader of Nigeria’s delegation to the…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said Justice Adeniyi Ademola was not competent to issue a ruling directing the 37…
Sunday’s attempted jailbreak at the heavily fortified headquarters of the Department of State Security by detained members of the Boko…
NAFDAC DG, DR. Paul ORHII WITH SOME OF THE DISPLACED CHILDREN The Director-General of National Agency for Food, Drug Administration…
The Chairman of Public Petitions Committee in the House of Representatives, Mr. Uzo Azubuike, yesterday, insisted that the Minister of…
In an act that looks like a scene from a horror movie, a boy in Daya Village, Fika Local Government…
The Federal Government, yesterday, said it was investigating suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido…
The first Secretary to the Military Government and Head of Service in Ogun State, Chief Adedotun Adedeji Kayode Degun has…
Hundreds of people queued in the Philippines Tuesday to kiss the hair, bloodstained clothing and a cassock of the late Pope John Paul II, beseeching the soon-to-be-sainted Polish pontiff to perform miracles for them. “I am so happy. I am ready to die…
West Indies captain Darren Sammy won the toss and elected to bat against Pakistan in a crucial World Twenty20 match in Dhaka on Tuesday. The winner of the night game at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium will join India in the semi-finals from group two of the…
Turkish police fired water cannon at protesters in the capital Ankara Tuesday complaining about irregularities in Sunday’s local elections. More than 1,000 people demonstrated outside the elections authority in the city, where Prime Minister Recep Tayyip…
A Thai anti-government protester was shot dead and several others wounded Tuesday when their convoy was attacked on a busy expressway, officials said, reigniting tensions in Bangkok after weeks of relative calm. The victims, supporters of a militant…
Relatives wept Tuesday as the names of the 96 Liverpool football supporters who died in the 1989 Hillsborough stadium crush were read out in court. Lord Justice John Goldring, the coroner presiding, said Britain’s worst sporting disaster was “seared…
Britons should eat seven portions of fresh fruit and vegetables a day, according to new research into healthy eating, published on Tuesday. The state-run National Health Service currently recommends each person eats five 80-gramme (three-ounce) helpings…
Fortified by a faith in God and a Guinness stout — or a tot of something stronger — Ololade Rabiu reckons she must have dug hundreds of wells in her time. But the 46-year-old mother of six is a rarity in Nigeria, where forging deep into the red earth…
The Vatican is turning to social media to reach out to the millions of pilgrims expected to attend the canonisation of John Paul II, the Polish pope who attained rock star status by the time he died in 2005. Rome police expect up to five million people…
An independent Scotland would drive on the right, replace the queen’s head on coins and bring in UN peacekeepers with purple berets — if Britain’s newspapers were to believed on April Fool’s Day. The Scottish independence referendum on September 18…
Kenyan police have arrested more than 650 suspects a day after six people were killed in bomb attacks in the capital Nairobi, the interior minister said Tuesday, in a crackdown on suspected Islamist insurgents. “This act of cowardice perpetrated against…