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The trial for former Liberian president Charles Taylor took an early adjournment today when immediately after the mid-morning break, one of the judges reportedly fell ill. Prior to the court's adjournment, the accused former Liberian president denied allegations that he sent his rebel fighters to attack neighbouring Guinea, saying that he gave approval to "hot pursuit missions" which entered into ...
The Senate and the House of Representatives will separately receive the Federal Government's 2010 budget of N4 trillion today, dousing the tension that had existed between the two houses over the venue for the budget presentation.
As part of efforts to find a lasting solution to the alarming spread of the H1N1 influenza, popularly known as swine flu, the World Health Organisation has disclosed that it will donate H1N1 vaccines to about 10 per cent population of every country in Africa, out of which about 14 million Nigerians will benefit.
All hell broke loose at Odumaase, in the Lower Manya Krobo District of the Eastern Region, during the wee hours of last Friday, when members of the Pierngua Clan, resorted to the exchange of gunfire to address their long-drawn-out chieftaincy dispute, between the sitting Pierngua Divisional Chief of the Manya Traditional Area, Nene Tetteh Zogli III, and one Martin, a military personnel.
UNDP in Ghana has set up a "communication club" to engage students journalists on development issues.
Some 1.6 million children throughout Guinea are receiving vaccinations, nutritional supplements and mosquito nets in a bid by UNICEF and the Health Ministry to shore up children's health, which experts say has been hit hard by unrest in recent years.
Exactly 20 years ago, on 20 November 1989, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) which sets universal standards for the care, treatment and protection of all individuals below the age of 18 years.
Surely, the decision of the United Nations General Assembly to make July 18 Nelson Mandela International Day is not a surprise to those who follow the sterling life and times of the former South African president.
About 26 ex-militants at rehabilitation center located at the Social Development Institute (SDI) in Okeyi, Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State yesterday held a staff of the institute hostage over what they described as unfair treatment by their host.
Two months after he returned from a medical trip to Saudi Arabia, President Umaru Yar'adua departed the country again yesterday for Saudi Arabia, apparently in a hurry.
At the end of the month-long FIFA Under-17 World Cup soccer championship last week, Vice President Goodluck Jonathan announced that the Federal Government was instituting an inquiry into the finances and conduct of officials of the game's Local Organising Committee (LOC).
Worried over the rapid spread of the influenza A, H1N1 virus in the African regions, representatives of African countries under the auspices World Health Organization (WHO) are meetings in Abuja to discuss the procurement and deployment the vaccines.
Barring any last minute change in plans, the gridlock over the presentation of the 2010 budget will be broken at 10a.m. today as President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua will present the vital document to the National Assembly by proxy.
The House of Representatives yesterday endorsed the imposition of sanctions on undemocratic governments in the West African sub-region, saying African leaders must summon the moral authority to caution leaders whose actions continue to undermine the continent's strives for an enduring democratic culture.
The Managing Director of International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn yesterday said that the global economy's recovery from the effects of the global economic crisis still remains highly vulnerable to shocks and policy missteps.
The Newspaper Proprietors' Association of Nigeria (NPAN), has condemned the strange Press Council Bill now circulating at the National Assembly which seeks to impose government control on the Nigerian press.
SPECIAL assistant to the president for Press and public relations, Dickson Jere has said insinuations that President Rupiah Banda played a role in second Republican president, Frederick Chiluba's trip to Nigeria, are erroneous.
NIGERIA has played itself to her favourite position in global matters - irrelevance. We used the FIFA U-17 World Cup to display national ethos of playing of skewed standards.
Super Eagles´Head Coach, Shuaibu Amodu, just back from the 2010 African Nations Cup Draw in Angola , will today lead his technical crew to a meeting with the Technical Committee of the Nigeria Football Federation at the NFF Secretariat in Abuja .
Contrary to calls from Nigerians for the sack of the Super Eagles coach, Amodu Shuaibu, and the recruitment of a world class coach to tinker the team to Angola 2010 Africa Cup of Nations and South Africa 2010 World Cup, an appeal has been made to Nigerians to allow the coach continue with his job.
Aftermath of the draws that have grouped African champions, Egypt alongside Nigeria, Mozambique and Benin Republic in Group C, of the 2010 African Nations Cup to be hosted by Angola, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has began frantic moves to arrange first class friendly matches for the Super Eagles.
The U-17 World Cup football championship has ended and contrary to expectations that Nigeria would win the championship for a record fourth time, the country's team failed to live up to this last-minute dream.
A Nigerian court will this week begin the trial of a 23 year-old Internet fraudster, Okoro Osagie Victor, who swindled an estimated $96,607 (Sh7.1 million) mostly from young American and German ladies, reports said.
Gunjur nearly pulled off another big upset in the annual Muhammed Yahya Jammeh Zonal Championship when they pushed star-studded Bakau all the way on Saturday afternoon in the Group A opener at Serrekunda East mini-stadium.
When key National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) executives met recently to endorse Mrs. Geraldine Doe Sherif, what they did not announce at the press conference was that she is in fact one of them, an insider member.
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