Voters across Yobe today turned out in large numbers to cast their votes to elect Chairmen and Councillors of the…
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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,…
An Ikeja High Court on Friday dismissed three applications filed by an oil marketer, Abdullahi Alao, who is being prosecuted…
Ex-Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has urged supporters of All Progressives Congress (APC) to close ranks and be more accommodating to…
The Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku, on Thursday, 26th December advised political leaders to refrain from making unguarded comments…
All Progressives Congress (APC) Chieftain, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, on Friday in Yola said the party was representing the change Nigerians…
Five years after the meltdown of the Nigerian stock market, some investors and operators have shaken off their investment shocks…
The Nigerian Army Headquarters has issued its fourth quarter routine posting and designation of senior officers. This is comprised in a…
The first UN peacekeeping reinforcements arrived Friday in South Sudan, where the government is said to have agreed an immediate ceasefire after nearly two weeks of heavy fighting with rebels. Seventy-two members of a police contingent, moved from the…
A Chinese icebreaker has failed to break through thick ice to free a ship carrying scientists and tourists stranded off Antarctica, forcing Australian authorities to look at other rescue options Saturday. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA…
Today, a judge in New York ruled that the NSA’s collection of phone metadata of United States citizens is, in fact, lawful. This ruling—the result of a suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against the United States Government—comes…
Yesterday, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s website published a press release to announce that the City was going to start accepting bids for pay-by-app parking systems, bringing one of the metropolitan area’s biggest headaches into the 21st…
Four American military personnel have been detained in Libya and are being held by the government there, the US State Department said Friday. “We can confirm that four US military personnel are currently being held in Libyan government custody,” said…
China’s top legislative committee formally approved a loosening of the country’s hugely controversial one-child policy on Saturday and abolished “re-education through labour” camps, state media reported. The decisions were taken by the standing committee…