A prominent hardline Muslim cleric in Kenya was shot dead in Mombasa on Tuesday, amid worsening religious tensions in the strategic port city and gateway to East Africa. Abubaker Shariff Ahmed, better known as Makaburi, was a vocal supporter of Osama…
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FILE PHOTO Four insurgents suspected to be suicide bombers in four Volkswagen golf cars have died in their IED laden…
Lagos lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana, SAN, has blamed the recent rise in killings by herdsmen in Nigeria…
A suit filed by businessman and gubernatorial candidate of the Labour Party in the Anambra governorship elections, Ifeanyi Ubah, seeking…
Just when cross-section of Nigerians were already raising eyebrows over the cost budgeted for the organization of ongoing National Conference,…
Alhaji Hadi Al-Mustapha, younger brother to Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, the former Chief Security Officer to late Head of State, General…
The game might be up for armed men and criminal gangs perpetrating violent crimes in Benue, Nasarawa and Plateau States…
Four would-be suicide bombers planning to blow up a petrol station died in Nigeria’s troubled northeast on Tuesday after soldiers opened fire on their explosives-packed cars, the military and witnesses said. The suspected Boko Haram Islamists were trying…
LONDON, United-Kingdom, April 1, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — UK/Tanzania High Level Prosperity Partnership yields results as British businesses help…
GENEVA, Switzerland, April 1, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Religious beliefs and traditions in Africa continue to influence the way…
GENEVA, Switzerland, April 1, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM, in collaboration with UNICEF and the Ministry of Women’s Development…
GENEVA, Switzerland, April 1, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM has received USD 1 million from Japan to improve displacement…
GENEVA, Switzerland, April 1, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM has handed over to the Rwandan government the final tranche…
GENEVA, Switzerland, April 1, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM Ethiopia has moved some 57,000 South Sudanese refugees from the…
NEW YORK, April 1, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Somali authorities in the…
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…