President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a decree formally recognising Crimea as an independent state following its vote to secede from Ukraine and join Russia, news agencies quoted a Kremlin statement as saying. Russian news agencies quoted the decree…
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Seal-hunters must have the same rights as fishermen, Canada’s Environment Minister Leonoa Aglukkaq insisted Monday, as her country battled a Brussels’ trade ban at the WTO. Speaking on the sidelines of a World Trade Organization appeal hearing on the…
Kenyan police said Monday they arrested two men who were driving a vehicle packed with explosives in the Indian Ocean resort city of Mombasa. “We have not established where the target was, but we have detained two terror suspects who were in the vehicle…
The United States and Europe targeted Vladimir Putin’s inner circle on Monday, slapping sanctions on senior officials to pressure the Kremlin to abandon moves to annex Crimea. The move came after the breakaway Ukrainian region voted to join Russia,…
Suspected Islamist militants launched a brazen daytime attack in the northeastern city of Maiduguri on Friday. Witnesses say gunmen armed with explosives stormed the Giwa military barracks, triggering a fierce gun battle with soldiers. The assailants…
17 March 2014 – The United Nations Mission in South sudan (UNMISS) says it is in the process of relocating…
14 March 2014 – The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO)…
14 March 2014 – The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) and its partners said today that they are stepping up…
14 March 2014 – Wrapping a historic visit to Nigeria, the United Nations rights chief today congratulated the Government for…
14 March 2014 – Local masons in Timbuktu today started to lay down the first earthen bricks to reconstruct World…
The Director of Defence Information, Chris Olukolade has informed that the troops of the Multi-National Joint Task Force of the…
(Ministry of Defence Report) – Pockets of terrorists apparently in a move to boost their depleted stock of fighters did…
(NEMA Report) – The National Emergency Management Agency has revealed that the Seasonal Rainfall Prediction (SRP) issued by the Nigerian…
A leading business organization based in the United States of America, Procter and Gamble has recently opened a multi-million dollar…
THE MISSING Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 could be a victim of the world’s first cyber-hijacking, a former member of the Home Office has claimed. Speaking to The Express, British anti-terrorist expert and former Home office scientific adviser Dr Sally…
A national conference criticised for its cost and scope opens in Nigeria’s capital on Monday, with the country’s future existence looming large over the talks. Nearly 500 delegates from the hundreds of ethnic, religious and linguistic groups that make…
BRUSSELS, Kingdom of Belgium, March 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Council adopted the following conclusions: “1. The European…
At least 100 people were killed in the religiously divided centre of Nigeria this weekend, local officials said on Sunday, as tensions between Muslim-dominated herdsmen and mostly Christian farmers again turned deadly. About 40 assailants armed with…
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Office of the First Lady The wife of Nigerian President, Patience Jonathan has described the Governor of Plateau State, …