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The stage is dramatically set for a showdown between the Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Lamido Sanusi and…

MOTHER of the teenage boy, Ikechukwu Lucky, who was arrested by the police in Lagos State for strangling a 12-year-old…

The Federal Government and Britain, yesterday, signed a Prisoners’ Transfer Agreement. . The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister…

The United Nations said Thursday the South Sudan conflict death toll is “very substantially” higher than the 1,000 given so far, as it stepped up efforts to shelter civilians. The UN mission in South Sudan has cut all military links with the government…

South Sudanese government forces were Thursday battling to retake the key rebel-held town of Bentiu, as Washington warned the world’s youngest nation was “in danger of shattering”. Peace talks in neighbouring Ethiopia appeared deadlocked as fighting…

Prof. Julius Okojie, the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), has described the poor reading habits cultivated by…

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has introduced a new payment system called Real-Time Gross settlement (RTGS) system as part…

NEW YORK, January 9, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos has announced the allocation of US$15…

Healthcare services at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) on Thursday remained paralysed, as the strike by the Joint House…

Harry Redknapp has told Shaun Wright-Phillips that he will need to reduce his wage demands so that Queens Park Rangers…

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has denied reports that are claimed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that it is…

South African President Jacob Zuma Thursday handed over 13,184 hectares (35,580 acres) of a previously white-owned farm to black communities as part of the country’s land reform programme, ahead of elections this year. The state paid almost one billion…

The All Progressives.Congress (APC) has advised President GEJ to be extremely careful on his reported plan to force the Governor…

Dieudonne, the controversial French comic who has been branded an anti-Semitic “pedlar of hate” by the government, on Thursday won the first round of a legal battle to be allowed to start a nationwide tour. A judge in Nantes ordered local authorities…

The European Commission cleared on Thursday a merger between France’s Publicis and US peer Omnicom which will create the world’s biggest advertising company. The nature of the market, “the presence of other large competitors, the relatively low barriers…

Afghanistan on Thursday said it would release scores of suspected Taliban fighters from jail, despite US objections that the men are “dangerous individuals” who could return to the battlefield as NATO troops withdraw. A meeting chaired by Afghan President…

New claims for US unemployment insurance benefits fell last week, the government said on Thursday in a report suggesting improvement in the labor market. Initial jobless claims, a sign of the pace of layoffs, fell by 15,000 to a seasonally adjusted…

Russia on Thursday launched a counter-terror operation after five bodies riddled with bullets were found in a southern region bordering the Winter Olympics host Sochi, less than a month before the start of the games. Two districts in the Stavropol region…

Germany said Thursday it had accepted a UN request to destroy remnants of Syria’s chemical weapons on its own soil as part of a bid to eliminate the arsenal by June 30. The foreign and defence ministries said in a joint statement that the move was intended…

African leaders began talks on Thursday to tackle the sectarian violence wracking the Central African Republic, with the pressure piling on the country’s embattled president. Rebel-turned-president Michel Djotodia was summoned to Chad’s capital NDjamena…