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The Ogun State Government has issued guidelines for property inspections which have commenced under its ongoing Homeowners’ Charter Programme…

Any worker employed into the Ogun State Civil Service in whatever form between 2008 and now but has failed…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, March 12, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU),…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, March 12, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The African-led International Support Mission in the Central African Republic-Car…

11 March 2014 – As more and more markets in Pacific Island countries fill their shelves with imported processed foods,…

10 March 2014 – The United Nations today stressed that Governments in Asia and the Pacific – which has more…

10 March 2014 – Noting the positive results of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) response programme in…

10 March 2014 – United Nations Secretary-General today expressed concern about the situation in the Maldives following the decision of…

11 March 2014 – As the fighting continues in South Sudan, United Nations humanitarian agencies warned today that the approach…

11 March 2014 – The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)…

11 March 2014 – The best hope for peace and stability in Somalia, the Horn of Africa and beyond remains…

11 March 2014 – With 44 people missing and feared drowned after a smugglers’ boat capsized off the coast of…

11 March 2014 – The United Nations refugee agency said today it is increasingly alarmed at the humanitarian impact of…

11 March 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay have voiced deep…

10 March 2014 – As the2014 session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women got under way…

Modern Nigeria emerged through the merging of two British colonial territories in 1914. The amalgamation was an act of colonial convenience. It occurred mainly because British colonizers desired a contiguous colonial territory stretching from the arid…

KADUNA, Nigeria — For years, they were out to kill each other. And they almost did. But now Pastor James Wuye and the Imam Muhammad Ashafa work side by side trying to heal the divide between Nigeria’s Christians and Muslims as the heads of the Interfaith…

KAFANCHAN, Nigeria — The highway from Kaduna wove through a maze of military checkpoints and then continued past the rusting hulks of abandoned factories and textile mills that long ago left Nigeria, as did the jobs they once produced. Down the highway…

It’s a common enough scenario in Nigeria and across Africa: how to get rid of pesky mosquitoes whose buzzing disturbs sleep and whose bites can carry malaria and other diseases. Two Nigerian start-ups have tapped this — and other aspects and quirks…

Healthcare services have collapsed in the northern part of Nigeria’s Borno state as doctors, nurses and pharmacists flee for their lives from brutal violence unleashed by Islamist Boko Haram militants. Medical professionals say health services in the…