The risk of dying from cancer in the United States has declined 20 percent over the past two decades, according to the American Cancer Society’s annual report out Tuesday. However, cancer, a complex disease that has largely eluded attempts at a cure…
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Drug abuse in northern Nigeria’s largest city has been on the rise in recent years, with anti-narcotics officials and experts warning of serious social consequences if the problem is not tackled. Kano has the country’s highest drug abuse rate based…
Africa’s largest oil producer Nigeria on Tuesday exported its milestone 3,000th liquefied natural gas cargo since it began operations in 1999, Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) said. The cargo was exported from NLNG’s Bonny Island terminal in southern Rivers…
GENEVA, Switzerland, January 7, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is meeting…
GENEVA, Switzerland, January 7, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM is expanding its assistance to people displaced by the ongoing…
GENEVA, Switzerland, January 7, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Three weeks of fighting raging throughout much of South Sudan are…
GENEVA, Switzerland, January 7, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Global Alliance for the Rights of Ethiopians in Saudi Arabia…
The Nigerian Government through the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has evacuated 1,277 Nigerians who were stranded in the raging…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has charged leaders and members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to work hard…
L-R: Special Adviser, Governor’s office, Chief Biodun Akin-Fasae; Special Adviser, Policy and Strategy, Mr. Biodun Omoleye; and Ekiti State Governor,…
Ogun State government has enjoined stakeholders in the forestry sub sector to always follow due process while carrying out their…
The on-going demolition of illegal structures in Pakoto, Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State becomes necessary to pave…
MILPITAS, CA–(Marketwired – Jan 6, 2014) – CES LAS VEGAS — Sigma Designs (NASDAQ: SIGM), a leading provider of System-on-Chip…
President of Delta State Muslim Council, Alhaji Mumakai Unagha, has called on Nigerians to stop celebrating corrupt and bad leadership,…
The Sokoto State Commissioner for Social Welfare and Culture, Alhaji Zubairu Yari, said the state government would evacuate, treat and…
Rice dealers on Tuesday in Asaba appealed to the FG to extend the last day for the proposed ban on…
Gov. Babangida Aliyu of Niger on Tuesday ordered the State Civil Service to work out the modalities for a compulsory…
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwired – Jan. 6, 2014) – First Global Data Limited (TSX VENTURE:FGD) (“First Global” or the “Corporation”) is pleased…
Former Romanian prime minister Adrian Nastase was sentenced to four years in jail on Monday for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to appoint a businesswoman to a senior government post. Nastase, 63, was found guilty of receiving bribes…
The Nigerian Government through the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has evacuated 1,277 Nigerians who were stranded in the raging…