The UN on Monday appealed for 65 million dollars in emergency aid for millions of victims of a typhoon in the southern Philippines, where at least 647 people were killed as muddy floodwaters washed out villages. The action plan for recovery would ``del...
President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday urged Nigerians not to lose faith in the country as government was doing its best to address the numerous challenges confronting the nation. The President said this at the 2012 Service of Nine Lessons and Carols, o...
South African President Jacob Zuma on Sunday visited former President Nelson Mandela in hospital. Zuma expressed satisfaction on the condition of Mandela after the visit, describing it as ``comfortable and in good care.’’ Presidential Spoke...
The ECOWAS Commission President, Kadré Ouédraogo, says the commission will sustain its support for stronger democratic culture and good governance in the sub-region. This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Monday to commend the conduct of...
Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Adamawa has filed petitions before the Adamawa State Local Government Election Tribunal, challenging “the entire process of the election”. Speaking to newsmen shortly after filling the pe...
The Speaker of ECOWAS Parliament, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu has commended the people of Ghana for living up to their rating as beacons of democracy in the West African region. The Speaker stated this in a congratulatory message to the winner of the Ghana Pre...
International aid was pouring in for millions of victims of a powerful typhoon, which killed 647 people as muddy floodwaters washed out entire villages in the southern Philippines, officials said on Monday. At least 780 people were missing from the dev...
Four Taliban suicide bombers attacked a police station in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing at least eight police and local residents, security officials said. The Pakistan Taliban took responsibility for the attack near Bannu in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa...
Charles Okah, the elder brother of Henry Okah, the alleged mastermind of the 2010 Independence Day bombing in Abuja, has alleged that the State Security Service (SSS) tried to force him to implicate a former military head of state, Gen. Ibrahim Badamos...
Attorney General of the federation and Minister of justice, Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN), has said that it is not yet time for the country to operate state policing. The minister said that the Nigeria Police Force should continue to serve the nation ...
The claim of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) to rule forever will be put to test as leading opposition parties, including the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and the Congress for Progressive...
Two years after the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) recorded its last case of wild polio virus in Dobi village, Gwagwalada Area Council, a new case of the virus and another suspected case was yesterday recorded in Jahi village, a community in the Abuja...
The Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa has announced dates for wards, local governments and state congresses to elect new executives for the party. The National Working Committee (NWC) of the party in Abuja had dissolv...
Ghanaians living in the UK said they were disenfranchised in the just-concluded presidential and parliamentary elections in their country as they could not vote and perform their civic responsibility. Mr Kwame Adu, the President of the...
Ibeno, an oil-producing community in Akwa Ibom, has rejected relief materials presented to it by Mobil Producing Nigeria, to cushion the effect of the recent oil spill in the area. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the oil company had, a fe...