Gunmen on Sunday killed a former security officer who served under slain dictator Moamer Kadhafi in the violence-ridden eastern city of Benghazi, security and medical sources said. “Retired colonel Muftah Najem was shot dead,” said a spokeswoman for…
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Dr Kayode Fayemi It seems a new dawn for politics in Nigeria as the All Progressives Congress (APC) continues to…
28 December 2013 – The deadline set for the removal of the most critical chemical weapons material from Syria for…
27 December 2013 – An independent United Nations human rights expert today urged Cambodian authorities to continue to exercise restraint…
Saudi Arabia’s religious police has warned against celebrating the New Year’s Eve in the ultra-conservative Gulf kingdom, the local Okaz daily said on Sunday. The Commission of the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, known unofficially as…
A female suicide bomber killed 14 people Sunday when she blew herself up at the main train station in the southern city of Volgograd, raising concerns about security in Russia just six weeks before the Sochi Olympic Games. The unidentified woman set…
A bomb near an army intelligence building wounded four soldiers Sunday, the third such blast within a week in Egypt after the Muslim Brotherhood’s terrorist designation further polarised the country. The explosion, which the army said was a “cowardly…
A sanitation court in Sokoto on Saturday sealed six filling stations for flouting the end of the month sanitation exercise.…
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…