ABUJA - ECOWAS is to deploy twenty (20) members of its Emergency Response Team (EERT) to Mali within the framework of a regional Humanitarian Assistance for...
GENEVA - Azerbaijan, Nicaragua and Nigeria are among the countries the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) plans to visit in 2014, the rights...
ABUJA - The performance in the power sector across the 15 ECOWAS Member States has been consistently unsatisfactory over the years. Despite implementing power sector reforms...
ADDIS ABABA - The Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union (AU), Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, is shocked and saddened by the acts of violence...
BEIJING – China has asked Nigeria to close down a visa application centre in Biejing for what it called “illegal activities”. It could not be confirmed...
DUBAI – First it was alliances. Then it was equity stakes. Now Etihad Airways is not only taking equity stakes in other airlines, but also having...
WASHINGTON – The five states that border the Gulf of Mexico are getting $113 million to improve the environment, the first small chunk of $2.5 billion...
JERUSALEM – Apple has bought PrimeSense, an Israeli maker of chips that enable three-dimensional (3D) machine vision, for $345 million, the Calcalist financial newspaper reported on...
WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama touted Saturday the progress made by his administration in energy production and saving, saying that with reduced oil imports, the...
WARRI – Following the shutdown of operations after the inferno at the Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company (WRPC), work is expected to resume this week. The...