Since the 18 January 2012 serious fighting is reported to have broken out in the Northern part of Mali, in Alguelhoc, 750 kilometres from the Capital, Bamako. “Amnesty International has called for an Independent enquiry into the Aguelhoc killings and said Northern Mali was experiencing its worst human rights violations for 20 years
The opposition claims that it has permit to march and occupy public places while the Ministry of the Interior continues to call for the deployment of forces to prevent the occupation of strategic places.
M. Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and head of the African Union (AU) Observers Mission for the Presidential election in the Republic of Senegal, arrived in Dakar on the 21st of February 2012
The former police chief, Mrs. Beatrice Munah Sieh Brown, has been ordered arrested for allegedly failing to order about US200,000 worth of uniforms for the police Emergency Response Unit (ERU).
As the bitter dispute between Senegal’s incumbent president, Abdoulaye Wade, and the opposition coalition, M23, raged on, African Union observers’ team chief Olusegun Obasanjo arrived in Dakar Tuesday night. RFI gives a profile of all 14 candidates in a controversial election. Former Nigerian president Obasanjo wants to see all the candidates and Wade’s spokesperson Serigne Mabcké Ndiaye insists that he will receive a warm welcome.
Abuja — No fewer than 40 persons have died from Lassa fever in the last six weeks, the Federal Government said yesterday. The government also said all 397 cases reported so far across the country would be treated at no cost to patients.
Boko Haram Islamic sect has said the claim by the State Security Services, SSS, that one of its arrested members revealed that the group was divided following disagreement over sharing of N41 million loot was totally false. Meanwhile, no fewer than five people, including two policemen and a staff of a bank, were killed yesterday when suspected armed robbers waylaid the bank’s empty bullion along Benishiek Road, about 50 kilometres away from Maiduguri, Borno State capital
Again, suspected Bomb at the Ungwa Sarki area in Kaduna yesterday caused major panic, forcing residents of the area to abruptly abandon their businesses, while vehicles and persons where diverted to take other routes. The substance packaged in a big black polythene bag suspected to be a bomb was dropped about the same place where the bomb that claimed the life of a police Anti bomb Squad officer, Sunday Badang was planted
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (ND-LEA) yesterday uncovered a laboratory in Lagos used for the illicit production of methamphetamine, an addictive stimulant that affects the central nervous system.
President Goodluck Jonathan has admitted that massive corruption exists in the nation’s oil and banking sectors, but he promised to tackle them head-on. In an exclusive interview with Jonathan Power, a Swedish journalist and commentator, the president said that the administration had succeeded in tackling corruption in fertilizer procurement and distribution.
