UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Islamist militant group Boko Haram is blamed for at least 18 attacks on civilians in northern Nigeria in the past two weeks and the escalating violence of the insurgency threatens the security of West Africa, a senior U.N. official said on Tuesday.

Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko visits the headquarters of anti-terrorist operation near Izyum, Kharkiv Oblast, and finalizes the plan of the military offensive actions of the Ukraine's army on July 8. © Anastasia Vlasova. Tweet. SEE ALSO. Poroshenko ...

The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), Ghana, has called on the government not to re-introduce the 17 ½ Value Added Tax charges imposed on core and non-core bank services. In a Resolution copied to Minister of Finance, the ICU said the law should be abrogated not be re-introduced. It said informed sources say there is nothing in the banking system called non-core activities. The resolution jointly signed by Mr. Emmanuel Boateng, Chairman, and Mr. Solomon Kotei, General Secretary of the

A flagbearer hopeful of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kofi Osei Ameyaw has denied reports  suggesting that he failed to pay the required fee when he filed his nomination on Monday. He insisted that he has filed his nomination “it has been accepted and that should end the issue…I am not doing it on credit. ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Mali government officials will meet northern Tuareg separatist rebels in Algiers on July 16, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Tuesday, indicating progress in their stalled peace talks.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - More than 80 commuters were injured when two trains collided in the South African city of Durban on Tuesday, but no deaths were recorded, a spokesman from the national rail authority said.

Three brand-new Hyundai Salon Cars have been awarded to Direct Sales Agents of Fidelity Bank for their hard work and outstanding performance in contributing to the growth in the bank’s deposits. Also known as Fidelity Sales Ambassadors (FSA), an Awards night spiced with lively music and poetry has been organised by the bank to entertain and reward the team’s best performers. This year’s awards ceremony is the sixth in a series and saw 15 people from across the country receiving awards for

Miroslav Klose, the World Cup's new all-time record goalscorer, had a word for it that might yet become an accepted part of football lexicon. "We 'super-blend'," he explained. Klose was attempting to describe a Germany performance and playing style that, ...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Islamist militants attacked Somalia's presidential compound on Tuesday with a car bomb and gunmen broke through a perimeter wall but were repulsed by security forces, and the president was not there at the time, the interior ministry said.

Gold Fields Ghana, the country’s biggest miner of gold, has described its lack of a stability agreement with government as frustrating. Stability agreements, also known as investment agreements, grant preferential tax treatment to beneficiary mining companies by freezing the tax rates that they pay over a long-term period. Newmont Ghana and AngloGold Ashanti are the only firms that have such agreements with the government, and have been saved the harsh effect of recent hikes in industry taxes. Gold

Jerusalem: Israel intensified its bombardment of Gaza, launching air and naval strikes up and down the besieged coastal strip that medical officials say killed 25 and wounded more than 140, while militants from Gaza fired a barrage of rockets at cities in Israel, ...

After Germany's stunning demolition of hosts Brazil on Tuesday, Lionel Messi's Argentina will seek to join the Europeans in the final when they take on 2010 runners-up the Netherlands in Sao Paulo later on Wednesday. 1 hour ago Reuters. 0 shares ...

image SINGAPORE: Brent crude fell below $109 a barrel on Wednesday as Libya restarted an oilfield, on track to drop for an eighth session in what would be its longest losing streak in over four years. Easing worries over possible disruptions to supply from ...