Category: Africa

The Director General of the Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA), Dr. Abdullahi Shehu, has said that developing countries lost about US$858.6 billion - $1.6 trillion...

President Goodluck Jonathan is probably the most vilified Head of State in the history of Nigeria. And, frankly, he deserves a lot of the criticisms that have been flung at...

IT was one of those stories that might have been missed in a newspaper. But there it was in Codewit online news  of Tuesday, June 4, 2013. According to statistics...

AWKA- Anambra State government said yesterday that it would use the money it won from being the best state in the coverage of immunization programme in the South-East to build...

…Criminals now use motorcycle to terrorise our people —Oshiomhole BEIN CITY—THOUSANDS of commercial motorcycle riders, commonly called Okada, Thursday, protested in Benin, Edo State for several hours, over the ban ...

JOHANNESBURG - Nelson Mandela may soon take a commanding position in Cape Town, under city plans to erect a statue of him on the site where he made his first speech...

LAGOS — An Ebute Metta Magistrates’ Court, yesterday, remanded a 50-year-old Ghanaian, Kwasi Abubakar, for allegedly killing a co-tenant. Also, yesterday, another Ebute Metta Magistrate Court remanded a 36-year-old Beninoise,...

Nigeria authorities have said that the three Lebanese arrested last month for alleged possession of illegal arms in the northern city of Kano and Abuja, the nation’s capital are involved...

The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Dibu Ojerinde has accused candidates that sat for the 2013 JAMB examinations of performing below the expected standard. Prof....

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai rejected President Robert Mugabe's declaration of a July 31 election on Thursday, accusing his rival of breaching the constitution and creating a...