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.…
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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…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in the August 9 elections in Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore, has said…
Over 110,000 members of the All Progressives Congress Party (APC) will participate in the ward congress scheduled to hold in…
The Managing Director of Kaduna Electricity Distribution Company, Alhaji Mohemmed Idris, has advocated the reintroduction of free meter for electricity…
THE REMODELLED AKANU IBIAM Airport IN ENUGU The N11.6 billion Akanu Ibiam International Airport Terminal, Enugu will be completed by September 2015,…
The General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare has shared his opinion about the use of Anointing…
The Federal Government has accepted the recommendation for the scrapping the National Poverty Eradication Programme, NAPEP, and the Fiscal Responsibility…
The Federal Government, yesterday, rejected by the government were the re-introduction of tuition fees in its universities; the abolition of…
MALABO, Equatorial Guinea, April 8, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Senior officials and experts from ministries and agencies responsible for…
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has formally assured Nigerians that elections will hold in all parts of the country,…
Some aggrieved leaders of the Ekiti State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, have given President Goodluck Jonathan a five-day…
President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday extolled what he termed the patriotic dedication of the Senate President, David Mark, to national…
President Goodluck Jonathan has said that he would ensure that no other Nigerian leader suffers international humiliation which late president,…
Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega has decried the N45billion envelope budget sent to National…
The Presidency and opposition parties led by the All Progressives Congress, yesterday, took their battle for the 2015 elections to…
The Bayelsa State Government says, it is sparing no efforts at getting its Kolo Creek Gas Turbine fully back on…