Category: Africa

Abuja — The Senate yesterday notched the federal cabinet up with the confirmation of former minister of finance and currently managing director of the World Bank Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala...

Nigeria's president has nominated World Bank managing director Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for a post in his new cabinet following his April election win, the leader of the senate said on Tuesday....

The African Union has asked the Nato alliance pursuing military operations against the administration of Libya's Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi to put pressure on opposition leaders to remove preconditions which it...

Early this morning, one of the major headliners of the highly anticipated show, Music Meets Runway, Amber Rose tweeted that she will not be coming to Nigeria to host Music...

Darey Art Alade and Amber Rose will be the host, top Nigerian finest artiste; Dr Sid, Whiz Kiasha, Darey, Tiwa Savage, Naeto C, Duncan Mighty, D’ Prince, Shank, Show Dem...

Fear pervades the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri where hundreds of troops have been deployed after a wave of bombings and shootings by the radical Islamist sect Boko Haram. A...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Evidence "strongly suggests" that a United Nations peacekeeping mission brought a cholera strain to Haiti that has killed thousands of people, a study by a team...

THAT   President   Goodluck     Ebele  Jonathan‘s  dreams came  to pass  to continue  from May  29, 2011, as president  of  Federal  Republic of Nigeria raised the  hope  of  Nigerians  that change  is ...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC) have called on the Federal Government to prevail on state governors to implement the N18,000 minimum wage. The leadership of...

Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has sent to the Senate for approval an initial list of 34 ministers for his new government since taking office last month, the senate chief said...