The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday, February 14, confirmed nine (9) nominees to serve as Resident Electoral Commissioners, REC of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. The confirmation is coming after a report was submitted by the Chairman, Senate Committee on…
In Burma, two journalists from the Reuters news agency have entered their third month in jail. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested on December 12 and charged with violating Burma’s Official Secrets Act. They have been denied bail…
Morgan Tsvangirai, the veteran Zimbabwean opposition leader who fought Robert Mugabe’s regime for many years, died on Wednesday after battling against cancer, a party official said. Tsvangirai, who founded the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in 1999, was among the…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) deeply mourns the tragic death of 21 students, three teachers and a driver of Government Secondary School (GSS) Misau, Bauchi following a ghastly motor accident while returning from an educational excursion in Kano state on Tuesday.…
South African Government (@GovernmentZA): President Zuma: I have thereof come to the decision to resign as the President of the Republic of South Africa with immediate effect Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s embattled and controversial president, has announced his resignation in…
RWAND AIR has announced plans to launch flights from its hub in Kigali into Abuja; Nigeria’s political capital, Bamako; the Malian capital, Conakry; the capital of Guinea and Cape Town in South Africa. These routes, according to the airline are…
Since the #NotTooYoungToRun bill was transmitted to the 36 states House of Assemblies along with other constitutional amendment bills, at least 21 states have passed the bill. This was made known in a detailed statement made available to mapnews24.com. According…
…“I have no regrets being called ‘Frying Pan Senator,’” he told Daily Trust. An investigation by the ICIR had unveiled three abandoned primary healthcare centres worth N76,283,359 in Etitiama-Nkporo, Oboro Ohafia in Ohafia Local Government and Obinkita in Arochukwu Local Government of…
At least five passengers sustained injuries after an Atlanta-bound plane made an emergency landing in Lagos on Tuesday. One of the engines of the Delta Airlines flight developed an engine problem mid-air. In a statement, the airline said the flight 55…
Former colleague tells IRIN how she blew the whistle in 2004 and 2008 The man at the centre of a sexual exploitation scandal at aid agency Oxfam was dismissed by another British NGO seven years earlier for similar misconduct, IRIN…
