May 25, 2013
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Nigeria: Court dismisses submission by Okah, others
July 30, 2011A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday dismissed an application filed by Charles Okah and three others accused of the Independence Day bombing in Abuja calling for the charges against them to be dropped. Obi Nwabueze and Tiemkema Osvwo had joined the principal accused, Okah to pray the court to quash charges against them over car bombings which killed 12 people on October 1, 2010.
Visiting Goodluck gets Liberia's highest honour
July 21, 2011Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has received one of Liberia’s highest honours, during a one-day official visit he paid to Monrovia on Thursday.
Nigeria led the sub-regional ECOMOG military intervention force that helped end Liberia's first civil war in the 1990s.Nigeria:Workers call off strike, police in Boko Haram trial
July 20, 2011Nigerian workers have suspended their minimum wage strike due to have begun on Wednesday, after their unions and government reached an agreement last evening.
Senegal: Humanitarian actors, others get training to manage pandemic
July 19, 2011More than sixty experts from six West African countries are meeting in Dakar, Senegal within the framework of the Pandemic Readiness and Response Exercise.
Nigerian workers vow to strike over wage law soon
July 14, 2011The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has vowed to carry out a 3 day warning strike next week over the controversial minimum wage law.
Civil group puts Nigeria's new FOI law to test
July 13, 2011A civil society group in Nigeria has filed the first access to information application to five state agencies and the federal government, under the new Freedom of Information (FOI) law, approved by President Goodluck Jonathan shortly after taking office recently.
UN humanitarian chief on fostering ties with Nigeria
July 7, 2011UN humanitarian chief, Valerie Amos is in Nigeria for a two-day official visit aimed consolidating ties between the United Nations humanitarian agency (OCHA) and the Nigerian government as well as ECOWAS.
After nearly 200 African migrants drowned, boat owners arrested
July 6, 2011Reports say nearly two hundred African migrants have drowned in the Red Sea, when a boat carrying them caught fire and sank.
Nigeria: Police appeal to media for restraint over bombings
July 5, 2011The Nigerian police are appealing to the media not to blow out of proportion security concerns in Nigeria following series of recent bomb explosions that have rocked the northern Borno State capital, Maiduguri.
West Africa: Govts, private sector urged to invest more in midwives
June 21, 2011Governments, private sector and midwives in West Africa have been urged to invest more in midwifery to make the profession more attractive so as to get more people drawn to it.
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