Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson has directed the Police and other security agencies in the State to ensure…
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British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday promised tax breaks worth millions of pounds to local councils who encourage shale gas development, declaring the country was going “all out for shale”. Cameron announced that local authorities in England…
A Pakistani schoolboy who sacrificed his own life to save hundreds of his classmates by tackling a suicide bomber will have his school and a stadium named after him, officials said Monday. Aitzaz Hassan, a 15-year-old from the mainly Shiite Ibrahimzai…
A Saudi court has sentenced to death an Al-Qaeda militant and jailed 10 others over a May 2004 attack that killed six Westerners and a policeman, state media reported. The defendants, seven of whom are brothers, were convicted of aiding assailants who…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has restated that his administration will not meddle in the selection process of any…
Dr Kayode Fayemi As the race for this year’s governorship election draws nearer in Ekiti State, Assistant Editor, Dare Odufowokan,…
12 January 2014 – United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos sounded the alarm today on behalf of more than…
11 January 2014 – Saddened by the death of Ariel Sharon, former Prime Minister of Israel, United Nations Secretary-General Ban…
12 January 2014 – The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said today that as it continues to gain…
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), on Sunday said its members had no such plans to explore a…
The Rivers Police Command on Sunday denied allegations that its personnel shot and wounded a member of the National Assembly,…
A teenager was today confirmed dead in an early morning fire, which razed some shanties in the Oworonshoki neighbourhood of…
The Director, Lagos State Fire Service, Mr Rasak Fadipe, said today that the service had responded to 1,537 fire incidences…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked President Goodluck Jonathan to urgently put a stop to what it termed the…
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Iran said on Sunday that an accord it struck with world powers on its disputed nuclear programme in exchange for an easing of sanctions will take effect from January 20. The United States confirmed the news although President Barack Obama warned of…
BANGUI, Central African Republic, January 12, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — As was done by the Secretary-General, the Special Representative…
NEW YORK, January 12, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council…
A Texas hunting club auctioned off a permit to kill a black rhinoceros in Namibia, raising $350,000 towards conservation efforts for the animal, but not without controversy. The Dallas Safari Club, which on Saturday said all money would be given to…
JERUSALEM — Dissonance. That is the word chosen by David Landau, the Israeli author and journalist, when asked to describe the essence of Ariel Sharon. “The dissonance between what people expected and what they got from him,” Landau said. The final…