The number of known executions worldwide rose to at least 778 last year following a surge in Iraq and Iran, Amnesty International said Thursday, but China remains the world’s biggest state executioner by far. Beijing is thought to have killed thousands…
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A New York jury on Wednesday found Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law guilty of conspiracy to kill Americans and supporting terrorists as an impassioned Al-Qaeda spokesman in 2001-2002. Suleiman Abu Ghaith, 48, now faces life in a maximum security American…
GENEVA, Switzerland, March 26, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — PRESS TELECONFERENCE ON SOUTH SUDAN / THURSDAY, March 27, 2014, 3…
Assets worth $458 million stolen by former Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha and frozen by the United States should ultimately be returned to Nigeria, the country’s justice minister said Wednesday. The US has said the funds held in various European accounts…
Shareholders of the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc, yesterday, dragged the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam…
The Imo House Assembly on Wednesday denied hatching any plot to impeach the Speaker, Dr Benjamin Uwajumogu. . The Chairman,…
A 69-year-old housewife, Mrs Simbiatu Oduntan, on Wednesday told an Orile Agege Customary Court in Lagos that her husband, Alhaji…
The Senate on Wednesday confirmed the appointment of a new central bank governor to replace Lamido Sanusi, who was suspended…
The NRC said in a statement in Lagos on Wednesday that the proposed re-opening was in response to appeals from…
The Police Command in Edo on Wednesday confirmed the abduction of the wife and daughter of a transport magnate, Abel…
Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory and Deputy National Secretary of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai…
Six people have been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly selling fake Alteco 110 Super Glue in…
Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State, on Wednesday, signed the state’s 2014 Appropriation Bill of N114.7 billion. into law. .…
Following the cancellation of the tragic recruitment into the Nigeria Immigration Service, penultimate Saturday, President. Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday approved the…
Farmers planting cocoa in the Ogun State government-owned forest reserves and the State Ministry of Forestry have entered into a…
The Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun will tomorrow Wednesday, 26th March 2014 present Certificate of Occupancy and other title…
The National Conference on Tuesday supported the media reporting of delegates who were caught sleeping during proceedings at the plenary.…
The Independent Corrupt and other related offences Commission on Tuesday re-arraigned ex-Senator David Iornem before an Abuja Federal High Court…
THE COMMISSIONER BEING LED AWAY IN A Police ARMORED CARRIER The Nasarawa State Police Command on Tuesday arrested the Nasarawa…
ACCRA, Ghana, March 26, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Rockefeller Foundation (http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org) has announced a $3.8 million grant to…