More than 1,000 Muslim couples tied the knot at a mass wedding Thursday in Nigeria’s second city of Kano, part of a government programme aimed at promoting stable families. The elaborate event at the city’s central mosque included 1,111 previously divorced…
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Barcelona star Lionel Messi defended himself, his family and fellow players on Friday against press reports linking charity football matches he played in to alleged laundering of Colombian drug money. In his first personal reaction to the allegations…
US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, whose career has in large part been built on advocating for the US to muster all military and diplomatic force to stop what she famously called “The Problem from Hell” in her Pulitzer prize winning…
The Standard and Poor’s ratings agency on Friday downgraded the European Union’s long-term credit rating one notch, from “AAA” to “AA+”, citing weaker credit worthiness among the bloc. “The downgrade… reflects our view of weaker creditworthiness among…
Bayelsa State Governor, Hon. Seriake Dickson has urged the Nigerian Navy to expand its operations to cover the Agge axis…
A five member Student Liaison Committee has been inaugurated with the mandate to liaise between the Bayelsa Government and various…
19 December 2013 – Developing Asia-Pacific countries will face another year of subpar growth in 2014 due to slow recovery,…
18 December 2013 – Led by strong growth in Myanmar, opium poppy cultivation in the area known as the Golden…
In Asa traditional Cum Cultural settling, the ‘Ikoro’ is seldomly beaten. It may, therefore, not be surprising to learn…
Cote d’Ivoire has ended the year (2013) as Africa’s best ranked team, according to the FIFA rankings released on Thursday,…
19 December 2013 – Unknown assailants attacked a United Nations base in South Sudan today, possibly killing or injuring civilians…
19 December 2013 – A group of independent United Nations human rights experts today urged all parties in the Central…
18 December 2013 – The top United Nations envoy in Somalia has strongly condemned the killing of six people during…
18 December 2013 – The Security Council, deeply concerned over the increasing links between drug trafficking and other forms of…
18 December 2013 – Amid the ongoing fighting in South Sudan, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is reaching out to key leaders…
Prismatic chief Bradford Cross believes that online social networks should go beyond following people to pursuing interests. To that end, the San Francisco-based startup on Thursday released a Prismatic app that lets users of Apple mobile gadgets tap…
People with a glucose-tolerance problem — a driver of diabetes and cardiovascular disease — can cut the risk of heart attack or stroke by simply walking an additional 2,000 steps per day, a study said on Friday. The experiment gathered more than 9…
The United States has deployed 45 troops to South Sudan, amid intensifying fighting between rebels and government forces and fears the country is sliding toward civil war, the White House said Thursday. In a letter to Congress, President Barack Obama…
The Nigerian army said Thursday it had killed 13 suspected Boko Haram gunmen in a shootout near the border with Cameroon after an armed robbery at a currency exchange business. “Our men succeeded in killing 13 suspected Boko Haram terrorists in a shootout…
The United States has signed anti-tax fraud pacts with six countries and territories including some considered tax havens, the US Treasury Department said Thursday. The Netherlands, Malta, and the British territories of Bermuda, Jersey, Guernsey and…