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L-R: Adelabu, Erelu Fayemi and Osundare at the event US-based poet laureate, Prof. Niyi Osundare, entertained his people at the…
17 December 2013 – With the lives of nearly six million children disrupted by the typhoon that devastated the Philippines…
17 December 2013 – Despite volatility and uncertainty, Afghanistan continues to make progress in enhancing its stability as the drawdown…
The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has been drawn to reports in some Newspapers today, December17, 2013…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and the Western Australia Police are to work together to combat internet fraud…
Nigerian university lecturers on Tuesday called off a long-running strike that paralysed higher education in the country, after they reached a temporary truce with the government. Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) walked out…
17 December 2013 – Despite commendable efforts by leaders of West African countries, the region remains fragile and continues to…
17 December 2013 – The United Nations refugee agency is working with the Government of Sudan and partners to reduce…
17 December 2013 – The United Nations refugee agency said today it has deployed additional emergency teams in the Central…
17 December 2013 – Amid reports of continued clashes today in South Sudan, senior United Nations officials are calling for…
16 December 2013 – The United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has sent attack helicopters and…
16 December 2013 – The Central African Republic (CAR), wracked by conflict that has killed thousands of people and driven…
STUTTGART, Germany, December 16, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — A media delegation from Algeria and Mauritania wrapped up a five-day…
US Secretary of State John Kerry warned China Tuesday against any move to declare an air defence zone in the South China Sea, as he affirmed defence ties with long-time ally the Philippines. Kerry, in Manila for a two-day visit, criticised China for…
Under fire from courts and allies over a vast US spying dragnet, President Barack Obama faced new heat Tuesday from Internet titans who fear the surveillance has crossed constitutional lines. Obama met bosses of tech giants Google, Apple, Netflix, Yahoo…
India on Tuesday launched a series of reprisals against the US over a diplomat’s arrest in New York, including pulling identity cards for American consular officials in the country, foreign ministry sources said. “We have ordered the withdrawal of all…
GENEVA, Switzerland, December 17, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM organizes, this week, an HIV awareness and testing campaign for…
Egypt’s military has arrested a jihadist suspected of involvement in an ambush that killed 16 Egyptian soldiers near the border with Israel last year, an army spokesman said Tuesday. Silmi Mohammed Masbah was arrested Monday in Sinai and is allegedly…
Britons born in the 1960s and 1970s will be no better off in retirement than previous generations unless they inherit, bucking a trend of rising living standards, a think-tank said Tuesday. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the take-home income…