President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Abdulwahed Omar says organised labour has started moves to convene a national peace summit to address insecurity in the country. Read more »

The country aims to produce 1,5 million tonnes per year and become the world's fifth top copper producer by 2015 on the back of increased foreign investment. Read more »

Dr. Peter Rwakwach, who featured in an NTV Kenya investigative series for treating genocide fugitive Felicien Kabuga, died from unknown causes in Nairobi, fueling speculation about ... Read more »

The government has approved the Petroleum Industry Bill which will provide for the unbundling of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation into five companies and will see the ... Read more »

Two students were charged with the murder of United States International University student Sarah Akelo Aruna, whose kidnapping and death marked the latest in an upsurge of similar ... Read more »

The Central Bank of Nigeria has increased the number of point of sale terminals in Lagos to promote its cashless economy policy. Read more »

An operative of State Security Service has told a Federal High Court in Abuja that former spokesman of Boko Haram, Kudunga Abdul, allegedly named Senator Ali Ndume as a financier ... Read more »

While attention in the war-torn region has virtually vanished from the international agenda, the conflict has now moved into a new phase of ethnic violence amid a humanitarian ... Read more »

A study produced by the International Livestock Research Institution (ILRI) provides maps that mark 'hotspots' of human-animal diseases such as rabies, bovine tuberculosis and ... Read more »

South Africa's wicketkeeper, Mark Boucher, has been forced into early retirement due to an eye injury. Read more »