25 March 2014 – The United Nations human rights office said today it is deeply alarmed by the imposition of…
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24 March 2014 – The top United Nations official in Somalia has condemned the brutal killing of eight local elders…
A SPEECH PRESENTED BY HIS EXCELLENCY, CHIEF T. A. ORJI (OCHENDO), Governor Abia STATE, ON THE OCCASION OF THE 2014…
22 March 2014 – The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process on Saturday voiced grave concern…
21 March 2014 – An independent United Nations human rights expert today called for an assessment by the International Court…
21 March 2014 – The United Nations has drawn on the bustling energy of two of the world’s most fabled…
ACCRA, Ghana, March 25, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) today officially opened its fifth Africa…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, March 25, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU),…
BERLIN, Germany, March 25, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Foreign Minister Steinmeier issued the following statement in Addis Ababa today…
OSLO, Norway, March 25, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — “It is completely unacceptable that more than 500 people have been…
A US jury will deliberate Wednesday for a second day on whether Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law conspired to kill Americans and provided support to terrorists. The 12-person New York jury, which received the case Tuesday at the end of a three-week trial…
A crew of two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut blasted off Tuesday from Kazakhstan on a Russian Soyuz rocket for the International Space Station, with US-Russia space cooperation pressing on despite the diplomatic standoff over Ukraine.…
US stocks Tuesday finished higher as biotechnology companies and other high-tech equities steadied following a two-day skid. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 91.19 (0.56 percent) to 16,367.88. The broad-based S&P 500 rose 8.18 (0.44 percent)…
Justice Olasumbo Goodluck of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja has adjourned to June 4, 2014 for ruling on…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, March 24, 2014 told a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja…
Justice B.O.Quadri of the Federal High Court, Gombe today March 24, 2014 sentenced one Abubakar Dan-Inna alias Goni Bukar to…
A Laboratory Chemist, Idris Tahir who is a witness in the on-going trial of a police officer, Dodo Chilla Bulus,…
Brazil must convince markets that it can grow its economy while also slash spending and curtail inflation, analysts said after the country’s credit rating sunk to near junk status. The Central Bank said Brazil would respond “robustly” to global economic…
The United States on Tuesday urged Egypt not to execute 529 supporters of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi who were given the death penalty in a mass sentencing which has triggered an international outcry. Deputy State Department spokeswoman…
Fugitive former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden said Tuesday he sees a “turning point” in the surveillance reform plans unveiled by the White House and Congress. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked documents which…