British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday said “a great light had gone out” following Nelson Mandela’s death, revealing that flags would be flown at half-mast at his Downing Street Office. “A great light has gone out in the world,” Cameron wrote…
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1706 GMT: Mandela had been receiving treatment for a lung infection at his Johannesburg home since September, after three months in hospital in a critical state. Mandela is survived by three daughters, 18 grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and…
Broad US sanctions aimed at keeping certain technologies out of the hands of repressive regimes can often backfire by hurting democracy movements, a think tank report said Thursday. The New America Foundation study said US sanctions policies “remain…
Nelson Mandela, the revered icon of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and one of the towering political figures of the 20th century, has died aged 95. Mandela, who was elected South Africa’s first black president after spending nearly three…
France ordered more troops into its former colony of the Central African Republic on Thursday, hours after a sectarian bloodbath left more than 120 people dead in the troubled nation’s capital of Bangui. Shortly after the UN Security Council issued…
A Tunisian rapper was jailed on Thursday for four months over songs deemed insulting to police, in a retrial that his supporters say proves the authorities are harassing dissident artists. The ruling comes amid ongoing human rights concerns under Tunisia…
Paper by His Excellency Dr. Kayode FAYEMI Governor, Ekiti State, Nigeria at the Nigerian Institute of Policy and Strategic…
History will be made on Saturday when Ekiti State hosts the 2013 Nigeria Media Merit Award (NMMA), the nation’s premier media…
Stakeholders at the just concluded First International/Palm Produce Conference (IPPC) urged Federal Government to sustain the ban on importation of…
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Women Affairs and Youth Development, Senator Helen Esuene has called on youths of this country…
Stakeholders at the just concluded First International/Palm Produce Conference (IPPC) urged Federal Government to sustain the ban on importation of…
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Women Affairs and Youth Development, Senator Helen Esuene has called on youths of this country…
The 22nd edition of the National Council on Water Resources (NCWR) meeting is scheduled to hold at the National Water…
The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo has assured a visiting trade and investment delegation from South Africa, that Nigeria’s…
The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Alhaji Bukar Goni Aji has called on the private sector in…
ABUJA, Nigeria, December 5, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — ECOWAS officials and health experts from within and outside the region…
PARIS, France, December 5, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The UN Security Council (UNSC) adopted a resolution today providing technical…
DUBLIN, Ireland, December 5, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Minister for Trade and Development Joe Costello TD has launched a…
Nigeria’s Vice President, Mohammed Namadi Sambo has reacted to the recent designation of Boko Haram and Ansaru as foreign terrorist…
A French report ruling out poisoning in Yasser Arafat’s 2004 death has a glaring inconsistency, the co-author of a Swiss probe said Thursday, sticking by his team’s conclusion that the Palestinian leader was likely killed. “Our data lean more towards…