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Arik Airlines says it has introduced a mobile and tablet booking app that can provide the airline with booking service.…

Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State on Friday presented a budget of N107.4 billion for the 2014 Appropriation Act to…

Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed of Kwara State said on Friday in Ilorin that the state government would give out N200 million…

A zoo in northern Thailand said Sunday that it was preparing for the birth of a second giant panda in the New Year thanks to artificial insemination. Chiang Mai Zoo said 12-year-old Lin Hui, who along with her partner Chuang Chuang is on loan from China…

The Israeli military fired a barrage of shells into southern Lebanon in retaliation after two Katyusha-style rockets crashed into an open field on Sunday, officials and reports said. The attacks struck uninhabited areas of both Israel and Lebanon without…

Syria is “unlikely” to meet a December 31 deadline to move its most dangerous chemical arms out of the country, the United Nations acknowledged for the first time Saturday. The UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said…

Equity transactions on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) opened after the holiday on Friday in an upward trend with the…

The Maritime Workers Union of Nigeria (MWUN), has advised the Federal Government to review its planned policy on importation of…

The Enugu State Police Command has arrested a native doctor, from Umuopu Umueze in Igboeze North Local Government Area, for…

The Senator representing Kebbi south, Retired Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Magoro, has appealed to the Boko Haram sect to embrace dialogue…

Lebanese national, Mr Hassan Zaid, who was kidnapped on Monday by unknown persons, has been released by his abductors. This…

Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger says the ban on the operations of commercial motorcyclists in Minna, the state capital, has…

Voters across Yobe today turned out in large numbers to cast their votes to elect Chairmen and Councillors of the…

A socio-cultural group, the Igbomina Development Forum, on Saturday rallied support for President Goodluck Jonathan in his bid to tackle…

International pressure bore down Saturday on the two sides in South Sudan’s bloody violence to open peace talks to keep the young nation from sliding into civil war. East African and Horn of Africa peace brokers gave until December 31 for President…

India on Sunday marks 12 months since the death of a student savagely gang-raped on a Delhi bus — an episode that sparked nationwide protests — with candle-light vigils and prayers. The 23-year-old physiotherapy student died on December 29 last year…

Several thousand African asylum seekers who entered Israel illegally via Egypt staged a peaceful protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday, police said. The demonstrators denounced the refusal of the authorities to grant them refugee status, as well as holding…

Shareholders of Italy’s troubled Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena — the world’s oldest bank — on Saturday voted to postpone until mid-2014 a giant capital increase needed to stave off nationalisation. Management had wanted the 3.0-billion-euro ($4.…

His Royal Highness Igwe Dr. Kenneth Onyemaeke Nnaji Orizu III. CON. JP. NNEWI, Nigeria, December 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — One of the longest serving Monarchs in Nigeria The ancient Kingdom of Nnewi in the Anambra State of Nigeria today announces the…

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Friday fixed Dec. 30 to decide the fate of a Briton, Gareth Wilcox,…