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Abia state government has applauded the United States government for lifting the travel ban imposed on its citizens to Abia and…

NEW YORK, January 16, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The following statement was issued today by the Spokesperson for UN…

In a speech earlier this morning from the Justice Department, President Obama discussed government surveillance in a speech that was as much a defense of the NSA’s activities as it was a response to growing discomfort with the agency’s surveillance…

Iran denounced Friday as “one sided” a text released by the United States summarising the implementation of the nuclear deal Tehran struck with world powers. “The White House statement is a unilateral and one-sided interpretation of the unofficial agreements…

The All Progressives Congress (APC), Rivers State Chapter, has joined Nobel Laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka in begging President Goodluck Jonathan…

A Surulere Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on Friday placed a N100,000 bail on a 24-year-old tailor, Lukman Suleiman, for beating…

AT last, Anambra has joined the league of states that have elected people at the third tier of government. .…

The Peoples Democratic Party on Jan 17 pledged to improve the welfare of Nigerians by remaining united and supporting government’s…

The Supreme Court, Friday, gave the Federal Government the go ahead to prosecute the eldest son of the late Head…

JUBA, South Sudan, January 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Thousands of people are at risk of being left without…

NEW YORK, January 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The United Nations Humanitarian Chief and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos,…

GENEVA, Switzerland, January 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Thousands of people have been displaced by renewed fighting in Unity…

GENEVA, Switzerland, January 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Fighting in South Sudan has turned into a horrifying humanitarian and…

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, January 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The recent violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) and the…

GENEVA, Switzerland, January 17, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — By Antoine Mbao Bogo, president of the Central African Republic Red…

A top UN rights envoy in South Sudan said child soldiers are fighting in the more than month-long conflict, with mass killings reported to have taken place. “The reports that we have come across involve mass killings, extrajudicial killings, widespread…

The EU food safety watchdog warned Friday that exposure levels to Bisphenol A (BPA), already implicated as a health concern for babies, should be cut by a factor of 10. The European Food Safety Authority said a review of recent studies showed “exposure…

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said gays need not fear persecution at the Winter Olympic Games, but stood by a controversial ban on promoting homosexuality to children. “We don’t have a ban on non-traditional sexual relations between people…

Two Pussy Riot members on Friday vowed no let-up in their campaign against human rights abuses inside Vladimir Putin’s Russia as they made their first overseas trip since being released from jail. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina, who were…

President Barack Obama will Friday announce plans to stop the National Security Agency hoarding hundreds of millions of telephone call records, among reforms to US surveillance programs exposed by Edward Snowden. A senior US official, speaking ahead…