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4 February 2014 – While Yemen has made good progress in its political transition, the country will not enjoy stability…

4 February 2014 – The United Nations today began a new airlift from Iraq to feed nearly 30,000 displaced people…

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, February 4, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, H.E. Dr. Nkosazana…

WASHINGTON, February 4, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — President Obama called Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa of Tunisia today to congratulate…

As Nigerians look forward to elections in 2015, many of the country’s women are demanding politicians to push for legislation that will protect them against domestic violence, which is on the increase. Women make up the largest voting base. Jacqueline…

Nigeria’s military on Tuesday said that a call by the country’s top military officer for a swift end to the Boko Haram insurgency had been “taken too literally”. Air Marshal Alex Badeh was appointed chief of defence staff last month and on January 20…

(Chad Basin Commission Reports) The speakers of Lake Chad Basin Commission member – countries which comprises of Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad,…

(Mines and Steel Development Reports) The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Musa Mohammed Sada and the Minister of Industry,…

(Ministry of Power Update) The Nigerian Government has said that hope is being built up for electricity consumers not linked…

Gunmen killed about 30 people in an early morning raid on two villages in central Nigeria, witnesses said on Tuesday, in the latest violence to hit the region. The police in Plateau state, which has been hit by repeated communal violence, confirmed…

Eight people were killed and 26 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a hotel in a Shiite…

The National Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, on Tuesday said that the party would compensate loyal members.…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as reckless, irresponsible and totally condemnable the alleged threat by Mujahedeen Asari-Dokubo to…

A RECENT post on the Facebook revealed that, apart from the office of the President and the Secretary to Government,…

THE Central Bank Governor, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Tuesday, told the Senate Committee on Finance that out of the $67 billion…

Nigeria’s Muslims have voiced concern about an apparent increase in religious “profiling” after hundreds of terror-related arrests in the country’s Christian-majority south. Last month some 300 traders from the Muslim majority north of the country were…

Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, yesterday, ordered that Dr. Mohammed Yunus, a lecturer…

The Kano State House of Assembly has elected a new speaker following the resignation of the former, Alhaji Gambo Sallau.…

An Abuja Grade 1 Area Court, sitting in Kado on Tuesday sentenced a scavenger, Yakubu Jibril, 18, to eight months…

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday in Abuja, described the defection of former Vice President Atiku Ababukar to the…