Nigeria’s troops have killed over 50 Islamists and destroyed more than 20 vehicles during a massive hunt for fleeing Boko Haram insurgents who attacked an army barracks in a restive northeastern town, a spokesman said Monday. Boko Haram gunmen stormed…
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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said Monday he had ordered a probe into a rash of allegations, including the creation of a political hit squad, levelled against him by former leader Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo, who served as president from 1999…
Arsenal missed their chance to return to the top of the Premier League after being held to a bruising 0-0 draw by title rivals Chelsea in a spiteful London derby on Monday. This was the final English top-flight fixture before Christmas, but there was…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has expressed shock at the killing of the Chairman of the Board of the…
Ekiti State Deputy Governor, Prof Modupe Adelabu (2nd right) cutting the tape to inaugurate the nineteen Hilux Ford Patrol vehicles…
VICTORIA, Mahe, December 20, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — On December 19, 2013, the Executive Board of the International Monetary…
TUNIS, Tunisia, December 20, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Board of the African Development Bank (AfDB) (http://www.afdb.org) approved on…
MOGADISHU, Somalia, December 18, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia Nicholas Kay today…
BRUSSELS, Kingdom of Belgium, December 17, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Brigadier General Massimo Mingiardi was today appointed new Mission…
City Entrepreneur Selected as the Founding Curator for the Chandigarh Hub of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers CommunityMr Munish…
Tim Sherwood was on Monday appointed head coach of Tottenham with a contract to the end of the 2014-2015 season, the Premier League club announced. Sherwood had been named as interim coach after Andre Villas-Boas was sacked earlier in December following…
England on Monday added spinners Scott Borthwick and James Tredwell to their Ashes tour squad in Australia following Graeme Swann’s retirement from international cricket. Durham leg-spinner Borthwick was scheduled to arrive in Melbourne late Monday…
Jose Mourinho has warned his Chelsea stars they cannot afford any more careless lapses in concentration when they face title rivals Arsenal on Monday. Mourinho is growing increasingly vexed by the misfiring form of Chelsea’s strikers and his defenders…
African Union troops early on Monday fired on demonstrators protesting against the president of the strife-torn Central African Republic, killing at least one person, according to AFP reporters on the scene. Several hundred Christian demonstrators crowded…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has congratulated the President of the Nigeria Guild of Editors, Mr. Femi Adesina, on…
Russia on Monday freed one of the jailed members of punk band Pussy Riot whose almost two-year incarceration for a performance against President Vladimir Putin prompted global outrage. The release of Maria Alyokhina from her prison in the city of Nizhny…
A British Airways airplane carrying 202 people struck an office building at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport with its wing while taxiing for take-off late on Sunday, slightly injuring four, aviation authorities said. The Boeing 747-400…
21 December 2013 – Visiting the storm-ravaged Philippine city of Tacloban, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hailed the resilience of the people…
20 December 2013 – The United Nations human rights office today called on Egyptian authorities to immediately release all individuals…
20 December 2013 – The Joint Special Representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria,…