The recent escalation of violence underscores the urgent need to get the Israeli-Palestinian peace process back on track, a top United Nations official told the Security Council yesterday, stressing that the status quo is unsustainable. The of the...
A new United Nations-led initiative aimed at reducing HIV deaths caused by tuberculosis (TB) in Nigeria,Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe by half was launched yesterday as part of a wider effo...
United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon, has urged the eight States that have not yet done so to join the Chemical Weapons Convention which aims to eliminate the use, development, production and transfer of these deadly weapons. ...
The Commonwealth will observe this year’s presidential and parliamentary elections in Ghana, which will take place on 7 December, Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma announced today. Mr Sharma said former Prime Minister Dr Bethuel Pakalitha ...
Shanduka Group, a leading South African Black Economic Empowerment investment holding company, via its wholly owned subsidiary Shanduka Telecommunication Mauritius, has paid $335-million to acquire a minority stake in MTN’s Nigerian bus...
The number of persons killed by unknown gunmen who stormed a bar at Heipang area of Barkin Ladi Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau State late Monday night has risen to 10. Eight deaths were previously reported but two more victims were said to have...
The Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF), yesterday, signified their interest in the devolution of powers from the federal government ahead of the constitution review. This comes as Governor of Imo state, Rochas Okorocha, revealed that the governors were yet...
The Federal Government has lent its support to the ongoing plans by the Nigerian Law Reform Commission to unify the criminal and penal codes being operated by the Southern and Northern parts of the country as a way of enhancing national unity. The Atto...
Eighteen persons, including eight soldiers were reportedly killed on Monday night, in a raid on three commercials banks in Auchi, the administrative headquarters of Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo State. LEADERSHIP gathered that th...
A total of 256.13 million shares worth N2.1 billion were traded in 4,438 deals on the Nigerian Stock Exchange on Tuesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that this was against the 237.17 million shares worth N1.6 billion exchanged in 3,182 dea...
President Jacob Zuma of South Africa has congratulated President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone on his re-election. Zuma in a statement on Tuesday commended the people of Sierra Leone for their enthusiasm and their turnout to exercise for their fran...
Malam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), on Tuesday called for improvement of the nation’s infrastructure for sustainable economic growth. Sanusi made the call at the Second Annual Capital Market Committee meeting orga...
President Goodluck Jonathan has directed the Director General of the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE) Mrs. Bolanle Onogoruwa to vacate office. Accordingly, he ordered her to handover to Mr. Benjamin Ezra Dikki who is the most senior Director in the ...
Prof Dora Akunyili, Chairman, North-East Presidential sub-Committee on Flood and Rehabilitation, said on Tuesday that the Federal Government did not neglect the victims of flood disaster in Bauchi State. Akunyili dispelled the insinuations in Dugu...
The Director-General of the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE) Mrs. Bolanle Onagoruwa has been relieved of her appointment. A statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media, Malam Umar Sani, on Tuesday in Abuja, said h...