Nigeria on Sunday became Africa’s biggest economy, leap-frogging South Africa, after the government announced a long-overdue rebasing of the country’s gross domestic product. The new calculations take into account changes in production and consumption…
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Cameroon’s security forces Sunday were sweeping the remote northern region where two Italian priests and a Canadian nun were kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram gunmen, a local government official said. “We are everywhere. We have been on the ground since…
The United Nations office in Venezuela expressed deep concern Saturday over the “high human cost” of anti-government protests which have left 39 people dead during two months of unrest. Since early February students backed by the opposition have staged…
Delegates at the on-going National Conference have been taken to the cleaners for complaining about the feeding arrangement provided by…
Nigeria could leap-frog South Africa to become Africa’s biggest economy this weekend, when the results of a new way of calculating national output are announced. Government statisticians will unveil the new figures on Sunday, with widespread expectations…
Venezuelan riot police fired water cannons and tear gas Thursday at stone-throwing student protesters in the capital Caracas, leaving at least seven injured. Demonstrators had initially been riled by armed vigilantes they link to the government after…
A Nigerian court on Thursday said intelligence agents broke the law when they seized the passport of ousted central bank governor Lamido Sanusi and ordered the government to pay damages and publicly apologise. Sanusi was suspended on February 20, less…
THE TRUCK WITH FULANI HERDSMEN INSIDE ARRESTED BY Soldiers IN KAFANCHAN ON WEDNESDAY (CREDIT: SAHARA REPORTERS) Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero…
Australia is expected to again top the medals table at this year’s Glasgow Commonwealth Games, winning up to 152, the Australian Sports Commission predicted on Thursday. The federal government-backed ASC made the medal forecasts for each sport based…
Turkey’s top constitutional court ruled on Wednesday that the government’s ban on the online messaging service Twitter violated rights, local media reported. The court ordered that the ban must be lifted, sending a statement both to the country’s telecommunications…
French President Francois Hollande recalled his former partner Segolene Royal from the political wilderness on Wednesday to join a new, streamlined government, days after his Socialist Party suffered an election drubbing. Sunday’s stinging setback in…
About 30 students of the Baptist High School, Osogbo (formerly Baptist Girls’ High School), who were suspended for alleged cultism…
More than 40 activist organizations and companies called Tuesday for an overhaul of US government surveillance authority that goes beyond President Barack Obama’s proposal. The coalition said Obama’s proposal to end bulk collection of telephone data…
France’s new Prime Minister Manuel Valls set about forming a new government on Tuesday tasked with the mammoth challenge of reviving a battered economy, as the EU warned Paris not to renege on its reform pledges. President Francois Hollande nominated…
A Thai anti-government protester was shot dead and several others wounded Tuesday when their convoy was attacked on a busy expressway, officials said, reigniting tensions in Bangkok after weeks of relative calm. The victims, supporters of a militant…
The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has condemned Edo State Government for going ahead with the competency test for primary and…
Follow @{0} Malians returning from displacement face deep financial difficultiesBAMAKO, 28 March 2014 (IRIN) – Displaced Malians who have recently…
Anne Hidalgo, a Spanish-born Socialist, will be the first female mayor of Paris after an unexpectedly comfortable win in municipal elections on Sunday. Hidalgo, 54, had been expected to be run extremely close by her centre-right rival, former government…
Governor Sullivan Chime of Enugu State has appealed to the Federal Government to fast-track the rehabilitation of all bad federal…
More than 251 Congolese refugees perished in the weekend sinking of a crowded boat on Lake Albert, between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, Kinshasa said Thursday. Government spokesman Lambert Mende also declared three days of national mourning…