31 january 2024 - 23:33:11
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A Kenyan church whose members starved to death in the belief that they would meet their [...] Full text...
26 july 2023 - 12:09:17
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa is marking the 30th anniversary of the St James Church Massacre which [...] Full text...
22 april 2023 - 10:35:14
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A police probe into the activities of a religious cult in Kenya's coastal region of Kilifi [...] Full text...
11 september 2021 - 12:46:11
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – Ethiopia is celebrating its New Year on Saturday and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is marking [...] Full text...
30 august 2021 - 16:56:26
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – A South African businessman has filed an application in the North Gauteng High Court [...] Full text...
03 august 2021 - 17:09:19
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - August 3, 1996, would be etched forever in the memory of African football custodian and even [...] Full text...
26 february 2021 - 15:32:12
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The ECOWAS Court of Justice has dismissed the application of a third-party applicant, representing 6,500 parties, [...] Full text...
11 december 2020 - 13:33:59
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng has come under fire for claiming the “devil” [...] Full text...
18 november 2020 - 10:52:08
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Self-proclaimed Malawian prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary on Wednesday handed themselves over [...] Full text...
28 september 2020 - 17:01:25
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - After consistent bashing, castigation and blame for disputed elections, sometimes unjustifiably, the Prof. Mahmood Yakubu-led Nigeria’s [...] Full text...
20 september 2020 - 16:47:31
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Reactions are trialing the declaration of Mr Godwin Obaseki of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) [...] Full text...
19 june 2020 - 19:56:42
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigerian Presidency on Friday labelled as “misrepresentation” the report of the United Kingdom (UK) All-Party [...] Full text...
11 june 2020 - 06:01:50
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - The Zimbabwe government has dismissed rumours of an imminent military coup d’etat in the country as the [...] Full text...
06 april 2020 - 07:25:23
Kigali Rwanda (PANA) – A number of people including a pastor in Kigali were arrested on Sunday for violating the [...] Full text...
20 march 2020 - 17:27:28
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Pastor Mamadou Karambiri and his wife, who were the first cases of coronavirus disease in [...] Full text...
20 february 2020 - 17:53:17
Cotonou, Benin(PANA) - Benin is once again allowing Nigerien pastoralists to graze their livestock on its territory, according to a [...] Full text...
17 february 2020 - 12:48:12
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA)- At least 24 people were killed on Sunday in Pansi village of Yagha province in Burkina [...] Full text...
15 february 2020 - 14:59:03
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - All eyes will be turned on Sunday towards Mont Sillon, on the north-eastern outskirts of Bujumbura [...] Full text...
14 february 2020 - 13:46:36
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A pastor and his three children kidnapped on Tuesday were found dead on Thursday in [...] Full text...
11 february 2020 - 17:04:12
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Burundian Ombudsman (Mediator of the Republic), Edouard Nduwimana, on Tuesday congratulated the dozen candidates cleared for [...] Full text...
11 february 2020 - 14:58:00
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - One person was killed and six others abducted on Monday night in Sebba, Yagha province [...] Full text...
05 february 2020 - 13:24:27
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Almost six years since 276 schoolgirls were abducted from their dormitories at Government Girls Secondary School, [...] Full text...
04 february 2020 - 11:09:15
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Police in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, have arrested and detained a purported man of God in [...] Full text...
03 february 2020 - 16:38:57
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Burundi Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) on Monday published a final list of 5,126,351 voters [...] Full text...
01 january 2020 - 11:11:41
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Africa joined the world to usher in the New Year on Tuesday with various activities in [...] Full text...
30 december 2019 - 23:25:31
Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Nigerien minister in charge of Livestock, Mohamed Boucha Monday launched the national campaign of free vaccination [...] Full text...
04 december 2019 - 21:23:19
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Christian community in The Gambia Wednesday expressed concern over the omission of the word ‘SECULAR’ [...] Full text...
04 december 2019 - 17:54:05
Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe (PANA) - A former pastor from Sao Tome and Principe, Iudmilo Veloso, of the [...] Full text...
30 november 2019 - 11:38:06
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan newspapers this week focused on the latest wave of arrests of Rwandans inside Uganda and [...] Full text...
23 november 2019 - 15:17:05
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan newspapers this week highlighted disputes that created a renewed strain on bilateral ties between Kigali and [...] Full text...
02 november 2019 - 14:20:56
Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe (PANA) - The government of Sao Tome and Principe on Thursday announced the release [...] Full text...
28 october 2019 - 11:06:59
Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe (PANA) - A former Santomean pastor of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of [...] Full text...
23 october 2019 - 22:53:40
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Mrs. Tina Marguerite Touadéra, wife of the head of the Central African Republic, Faustin-Archange Touadéra, arrived [...] Full text...
18 october 2019 - 15:48:56
Sao Tome, Sao Tome and Principe (PANA) - One person died on Thursday in a popular demonstration on the streets [...] Full text...
14 october 2019 - 21:30:32
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkinabé President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré Monday called on the citizenry to take action and [...] Full text...
08 october 2019 - 23:10:49
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The US Embassy in Kigali was Tuesday notified about the deportation of the American Pastor Gregory [...] Full text...
08 october 2019 - 22:43:54
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan Minister of State in charge of the East African Community Olivier Nduhungirehe Tuesday welcomed the [...] Full text...
08 october 2019 - 16:03:44
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's Directorate-General of Immigration and Emigration on Tuesday confirmed that American Pastor Gregory Ryan Schoof, who [...] Full text...
03 october 2019 - 15:51:31
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Two hearings on wildlife crime are scheduled for October 8 and 10 at the Brazzaville and [...] Full text...
15 august 2019 - 15:09:43
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria's federal government on Thursday demanded an immediate probe by the government of China regrading the [...] Full text...
06 august 2019 - 19:21:22
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Health officials from Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) observed a minute's silence on [...] Full text...
06 august 2019 - 17:18:37
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Health ministers of Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Tuesday met at La Corniche [...] Full text...
01 august 2019 - 20:01:14
Rubavu, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan Health officials on Thursday refuted reports that the country had closed its common border with [...] Full text...
31 july 2019 - 19:34:47
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Senior UN officials tasked with controlling the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) [...] Full text...
31 july 2019 - 16:30:53
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan health officials on Wednesday issued a warning following the detection of the second Ebola case [...] Full text...
19 july 2019 - 18:40:17
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Local women's rights groups have called on government to set up a commission of inquiry to [...] Full text...
16 july 2019 - 13:12:06
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A warning earlier this week by Rwandan health officials against unnecessary travel to Goma in eastern [...] Full text...
16 july 2019 - 05:46:16
Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Deadly attacks on health workers in Ebola-hit areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), including one at [...] Full text...
21 june 2019 - 18:40:41
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Outspoken cleric, Pastor Talent Chiwenga, has gone viral on social media alleging that his recent horrific [...] Full text...
31 may 2019 - 05:15:43
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) – Human Rights Watch is calling on the Zimbabwe authorities to immediately release seven activists and drop [...] Full text...
30 may 2019 - 14:45:08
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) has joined growing calls to release seven recently incarcerated civic leaders and [...] Full text...
28 may 2019 - 22:23:45
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The appeal court in Kigali on Tuesday rejected a request by one of the Christian community [...] Full text...
14 may 2019 - 20:08:20
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The Seventh-day Adventist World Church President, Dr. Ted N.C Wilson, has condemned systematic religious liberty abuse [...] Full text...
13 may 2019 - 21:34:02
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Gunmen Monday abducted and killed four people in Zimtenga, 25 km from Kongoussi, as they [...] Full text...
13 may 2019 - 13:35:59
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) – The Burkinabe Army has rejected claims of discontent among soldiers as the country is persistently [...] Full text...
12 may 2019 - 19:25:58
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - The Burkinabè government on Sunday condemned the attack on a Catholic Church and health center [...] Full text...
08 may 2019 - 22:36:12
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The General Manager of the Congo Ocean Railway (CFCO), Jean Claude Tchibassa Loubongou, announced on Wednesday [...] Full text...
24 april 2019 - 13:37:18
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Three foreigners, including a Nigerian preacher, have been arrested by the anti-drugs unit of [...] Full text...
18 march 2019 - 05:19:51
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) – An online crowd sourcing campaign has yielded US$6,275 in 23 hours and counting towards disaster relief [...] Full text...
11 october 2018 - 11:23:31
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A Rwandan court has upheld the suspension slapped on a community radio station for broadcasting hate [...] Full text...
10 october 2018 - 10:56:37
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A Rwandan woman, Florence Uwimana, has been detained in Burundi's Central Province of Gitega for the [...] Full text...
14 june 2018 - 06:42:02
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Rev. Father Lucien Ambunga, Catholic Priest and Pastor for the remote rural community of Itipo [...] Full text...
18 may 2018 - 15:38:12
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - One of the Christian community Radio Stations, Amazing Grace FM, has dragged the Rwanda Media [...] Full text...
04 may 2018 - 05:19:52
New York, US (PANA) - Voicing concern over inflammatory rhetoric in the wake of widespread violence in Bangui, the capital [...] Full text...
03 may 2018 - 06:26:09
Bangui, CAR (PANA) - The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) has appealed for calm following [...] Full text...
19 april 2018 - 08:49:03
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A Rwandese female pastor, Christine Nkomeza living in Burundi has been declared persona non grata for [...] Full text...
13 february 2018 - 14:18:11
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's media regulatory body has suspended a Christian community radio station's operating licence for three months, [...] Full text...
30 january 2018 - 11:34:01
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The representative of the European Union (EU) in Congo, Saskia de Lang, has expressed the commitment [...] Full text...
04 january 2018 - 14:14:05
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The newly-appointed Bishop of Banjul, Rev Gabriel Mendy, returned home Wednesday to take over as the [...] Full text...
27 december 2017 - 06:54:26
New York, USA (PANA) – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday welcomed the signing of a ceasefire agreement between [...] Full text...
18 november 2017 - 16:31:47
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Tens of thousands of Zimbabweans on Saturday poured into the streets of cities across the country [...] Full text...
13 november 2017 - 10:14:59
Yei, South Sudan (PANA) - Hungry families in South Sudan will be able to make ends meet thanks to vegetable-growing [...] Full text...
24 october 2017 - 11:26:07
Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - The Sierra Leonean Minister of Information and Communication, Mohamed Bangura, has asked the police to [...] Full text...
04 october 2017 - 17:38:35
Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - Sierra Leonean police on Wednesday released Nigerian evangelist Victor Ajesafe who has been under protective [...] Full text...
03 october 2017 - 13:53:55
Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - Evangelist Victor Ajisafe on Monday apologized to Muslims and all Sierra Leoneans following his hate [...] Full text...
29 september 2017 - 10:52:17
Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - Christian leaders in Sierre Leone have called on the Muslim community to forgive Nigerian Pastor [...] Full text...
27 september 2017 - 15:04:01
Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - Nigerian-born Evangelist, Victor Ajisafe, was arrested on Tuesday by the police after he verbally attacked [...] Full text...
25 september 2017 - 13:20:40
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Police have arrested a Baptist Church pastor in Petauke, Eastern Zambia, for defiling a minor who [...] Full text...
19 september 2017 - 11:19:44
Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - Two media watchdogs, Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Sans Frontières, have appealed to Congolese President [...] Full text...
06 september 2017 - 16:08:14
Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - The Sierra Leonean National Minerals Agency (NMA) have broken weeks-long silence over the current status [...] Full text...
25 august 2017 - 16:29:09
Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Zambian Police on Friday gave a go-ahead for a thanksgiving prayer service being organised by church [...] Full text...
27 june 2017 - 19:33:43
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Human rights group, Amnesty International, on Tuesday called for the immediate and unconditional release of Zimbabwean [...] Full text...
20 april 2017 - 11:54:02
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The continued persecution of human rights activist Pastor Evan Mawarire is a deliberate ploy by the [...] Full text...
08 february 2017 - 17:43:45
Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Two human rights groups on Wednesday asked the Zimbabwean authorities to drop all politically motivated charges [...] Full text...
17 january 2017 - 16:37:55
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - With a breakout of violence becoming imminent, thousands of Gambian Christians, particularly followers of the Redeemed [...] Full text...
14 january 2017 - 18:49:50
Kigali,Rwanda (PANA) - The last monarch of Rwanda, Kigeli V Ndahindurwa, who died in October last year, will not be [...] Full text...
14 january 2017 - 09:29:12
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Congolese authorities should immediately release Ghys Fortuné Dombé Bemba, the editor of the privately-owned newspaper, Talassa, [...] Full text...
06 january 2017 - 17:59:50
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Heads of Christian churches in Ethiopia have underlined national peace and supporting the needy as [...] Full text...
13 september 2016 - 11:54:21
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba on Tuesday announced that anti-gay American pastor Steven Anderson [...] Full text...
08 september 2016 - 16:40:53
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – There are deep divisions over next week’s planned visit to South Africa by racist [...] Full text...
03 september 2016 - 06:47:31
Accra, Ghana (PANA) – Criticisms of journalists by the chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC) during the 21st awards night [...] Full text...
20 may 2016 - 09:07:35
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigerian military and civilian vigilantes have rescued another of the 219 Chibok school girls who [...] Full text...
18 april 2016 - 11:25:14
Brazzaville, Republic of Congo (PANA) - Human rights watchdog, Amnesty International, said on Monday that air strikes on residential areas [...] Full text...
25 january 2016 - 15:39:55
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - UK-based controversial Kenyan preacher, Gilbert Deya, whose extradition Kenya sought unsuccessfully over the alleged 'miracle baby' [...] Full text...
02 july 2015 - 11:51:44
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa’s world renowned cleric Desmond Tutu has fallen head-over-heels in love – again. [...] Full text...
01 july 2015 - 22:24:08
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - An official of the Vatican has warned that extremists want to punish Tunisia for its progress [...] Full text...
27 march 2015 - 08:15:46
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - When Nigerians go to the polls on Saturday, 28 March, 2015, to elect a new president, [...] Full text...
27 march 2015 - 07:52:20
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian politician Muhammadu Buhari has apparently imbibed the dictum that if at first you don't succeed, [...] Full text...
07 january 2015 - 08:16:39
London, UK (PANA) - Oil giant Shell’s long-overdue compensation pay out to a community devastated by oil spills in the [...] Full text...
06 october 2014 - 11:42:03
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Boko Haram's recent video showing the beheading of an apparently-captured pilot of a missing Nigerian warplane [...] Full text...
26 september 2014 - 09:43:07
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A school girl believed to have been set free by the insurgent group Boko Haram, which [...] Full text...
19 september 2014 - 11:45:30
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Rescue workers in Nigeria have ended their efforts to rescue survivors and retrieve the bodies of [...] Full text...
17 september 2014 - 08:44:41
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian rescue officials have put the death toll from the building collapse within the premises of [...] Full text...
21 june 2014 - 14:09:05
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Scores of ululating and cheering Malawians Saturday thronged Blantyre's historic Henry Henderson Institute (HHI) of the [...] Full text...
07 june 2014 - 09:31:23
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The continuing efforts at tackling the Boko Haram insurgency continued to dominate newspaper headlines in Nigeria [...] Full text...
20 may 2014 - 11:41:52
Malemia, Malawi (PANA) - Voting has opened in Malawi's fifth elections since the advent of multi-party politics in the country [...] Full text...
23 april 2014 - 17:20:19
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria’s umbrella Christian group, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Wednesday declared Friday, 25 April 2014, [...] Full text...
16 march 2014 - 11:26:03
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Some 100 people were massacred in the early hours of Saturday by suspected Fulani herdsmen in [...] Full text...
28 january 2014 - 21:31:40
Libreville, Gabon (PANA) – Gabon's president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, on Tuesday announced the composition of a 32-member government led by [...] Full text...
02 january 2014 - 14:49:36
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) – Some revivalist churches in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are to be banned following [...] Full text...
21 december 2013 - 15:41:51
New York, US (PANA) - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has called for international efforts to help [...] Full text...
16 november 2013 - 08:37:07
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria has accepted the designation, by the US, of Boko Haram and Ansaru as Foreign Terrorist [...] Full text...
25 july 2013 - 19:13:13
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, on Thursday urged the nation's military to re-strategise and urgently end the [...] Full text...
25 may 2013 - 08:32:23
Accra, Ghana (PANA) – A stampede last Sunday at the church of popular Nigerian preacher, Prophet T.B. Joshua, in Accra [...] Full text...
11 february 2013 - 18:50:55
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, Monday said the resignation of [...] Full text...
11 february 2013 - 12:57:27
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Pope Benedict has announced that he will resign on 28 Feb. due to his deteriorating health, [...] Full text...
05 february 2013 - 10:06:26
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Hundreds of fatal police shootings which each year leave families anguished and bereaved are not being [...] Full text...
19 january 2013 - 08:13:41
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The war in Mali, to which other West African
countries have contributed troops to assist Bamako, the [...] Full text...
12 december 2012 - 14:04:44
Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel García-Margallo, arrived here Tuesday for a three-day official [...] Full text...
01 december 2012 - 09:17:03
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Former President Olusegun Obasanjo's call for a revolution, knocks for CBN Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, government's [...] Full text...
17 november 2012 - 11:15:14
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - President Goodluck Jonathan's declaration that fuel subsidy must go, rising unemployment figures and the growing number [...] Full text...
11 november 2012 - 09:13:52
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The President of the umbrella Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) and founder of the Word of [...] Full text...
01 october 2012 - 12:58:28
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria marked its 52nd independence anniversary Monday with a presidential change of guards parade at the [...] Full text...
23 august 2012 - 11:20:39
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Islamic sect Boko Haram has denied entering into fresh negotiations with the Nigerian government to [...] Full text...
07 august 2012 - 19:17:27
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian authorities Tuesday vowed to fish out the perpetrators of Monday night's attack on a pentecostal [...] Full text...
09 july 2012 - 09:03:18
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - At least 104 people, including two serving MPs and three security agents, have been killed since [...] Full text...
20 june 2012 - 07:39:40
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The umbrella Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has alleged that the escalating attacks on churches in [...] Full text...
10 june 2012 - 19:28:40
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Five persons have been confirmed dead in Sunday's suicide bombing of the Christ Chosen Church in [...] Full text...
10 june 2012 - 15:53:23
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Unknown gunmen on Sunday opened fire on worshippers at a church in Biu in the southern [...] Full text...
03 may 2012 - 08:53:45
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As the Islamic sect Boko Haram continues to target Christians, the umbrella Christian Association of Nigeria [...] Full text...
01 may 2012 - 11:17:35
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The 'Save Nigeria Group (SNG) has issued a two-week ultimatum to the federal government to prosecute [...] Full text...
08 april 2012 - 09:42:48
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Ten worshipers were killed on Saturday when their catholic church building collapsed on celebrants of the [...] Full text...
09 march 2012 - 09:51:46
Luanda, Angola (PANA) - The International Women's Day was marked in Angola on Thursday with a special church service, among [...] Full text...
08 march 2012 - 20:16:51
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - As activities marking the 2012 International Women’s Day is gradually drawing to a close in Nigeria, [...] Full text...
29 february 2012 - 09:52:14
New York, US (PANA) - The UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), which is trying key suspects implicated in [...] Full text...
10 february 2012 - 14:33:35
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's State Security Service (SSS) has re-arrested a member of the Islamic sect Boko Haram, who [...] Full text...
24 january 2012 - 14:46:05
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Islamic sect Boko Haram has killed a total of 935 people in 164 attacks since [...] Full text...
20 january 2012 - 08:44:51
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Nigeria police Force (NPF) has formally declared wanted a suspected Bokom Haram leader, Kabiru Umar, [...] Full text...
18 january 2012 - 11:21:30
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Widespread anger has greeted Tuesday's dramatic escape of a suspected Boko Haram member, who allegedly masterminded [...] Full text...
14 january 2012 - 04:53:20
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The massive strike, called by two main workers' unions and their civil society counterparts, following government's [...] Full text...
12 january 2012 - 10:32:14
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Pastor Tunde Bakare, Convener of the civil society coalition Save Nigeria Group (SNG), Wednesday urged the [...] Full text...
08 january 2012 - 08:01:44
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - After a series of attacks on Friday targeting churches and southerners in the north by the [...] Full text...
07 january 2012 - 09:50:37
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Fears that the incessant attacks on Christians in Nigeria's predominantly-Muslim north could trigger reprisal attacks in [...] Full text...
06 january 2012 - 09:53:59
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gunmen on Thursday evening stormed a church in Nigeria's northern Gombe state, killing six church members, [...] Full text...
01 january 2012 - 10:54:54
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghanaians, led by President John Evans Mills, poured into churches while others made merry in night [...] Full text...
29 december 2011 - 08:55:05
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian Christians have said they can no longer depend on the government to protect them against [...] Full text...
06 october 2011 - 18:18:35
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Participants drawn from the academic, banking, foreign policy and business group have stressed the need to [...] Full text...
16 may 2011 - 09:32:22
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Wealthy Nigerians acquired at least six private jets worth a total of US$225 million between March [...] Full text...
14 may 2011 - 07:48:56
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Developments from the April general elections, moves to check money laundering, the rising external reserves and [...] Full text...
30 april 2011 - 06:30:33
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The last of the three-phase general elections, held 26 and 28 April, dominated newspaper headlines in [...] Full text...
13 april 2011 - 14:15:06
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Gambian government has called on the US government to quickly prosecute Terry Jones, the Florida-based [...] Full text...
27 february 2011 - 11:53:32
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has slammed the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for celebrating [...] Full text...
31 january 2011 - 19:49:49
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The presidential candidate of Nigeria's Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), retired General Muhamadu Buhari, has named [...] Full text...
01 december 2010 - 18:58:49
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Police in Malawi's commercial capital, Blantyre, Wednesday arrested three officials of a cultural arts group for [...] Full text...
05 november 2010 - 17:20:00
Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court for R wanda (ICCR), Gambia's Hassan Bubacar Jallow, has [...] Full text...
14 september 2010 - 17:50:00
Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, has condemned the prop osal by a small American Evangelical Church and [...] Full text...
14 september 2010 - 16:03:00
New York- US (PANA) -- The UN will next week convene a high-level meeting to prom ote inter-cultural understanding and [...] Full text...
12 september 2010 - 14:09:00
Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Imams in Libya have strongly condemned the plan, now she lved, by an American Pastor to [...] Full text...
10 september 2010 - 08:32:00
Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan has condemned ''in strong terms'' alleged plans by a US Pastor, Terry [...] Full text...
04 september 2010 - 10:26:00
Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- The usual everyday politics took the back seat in the Malawi media this week as macabre [...] Full text...
03 september 2010 - 12:26:00
Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- One of the two survivors of Tuesday's macabre religiou s mass suicide bid by a family [...] Full text...
21 august 2010 - 09:03:00
Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- A senior clergyman's open endorsement of the presidential candidate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) [...] Full text...
15 august 2010 - 19:08:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Notable Nigerian cleric Pastor Enoch Adeboye, General Ov erseer of one of the country's biggest churches [...] Full text...
15 august 2010 - 10:05:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Notable Nigerian cleric Pastor Enoch Adeboye, General Ov erseer of one of the country's biggest churches [...] Full text...
19 july 2010 - 18:43:00
Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A Kenyan pastor, who police said had planned to attack a church rally, in protest against [...] Full text...
14 july 2010 - 15:39:00
Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika has warned religio us sects who prevent their followers from accessing [...] Full text...
02 july 2010 - 18:03:00
Kampala- Uganda (PANA) -- Uganda on Friday handed over Jean-Bosco Uwinkindi, a to p suspect of the 1994 Rwanda genocide, [...] Full text...
19 june 2010 - 12:25:00
Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- With 'Africa's' football World Cup happening only two hours' flight away, it is difficult for the [...] Full text...
02 june 2010 - 20:00:00
Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- Four thousand children are exploited sexually every day in Cameroon, according to an investigation by the [...] Full text...
22 may 2010 - 14:53:00
Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawi's former president Bakili Muluzi departed Malaw i for Cape Town, South Africa on Saturday for [...] Full text...
12 may 2010 - 17:37:00
Kigali- Rwanda (PANA) -- A team of international investigators from France, Norway, Germany, Holland and the US are due in [...] Full text...
20 march 2010 - 16:13:00
Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Three gay Christians, who were invited to attend a consultative meeting on contemporary issues - including [...] Full text...
22 january 2010 - 09:34:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- For more than three hours Thursday, thousands of Nigeria ns took to the streets of Lagos, [...] Full text...
16 january 2010 - 15:00:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The story of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua's absence fro m Nigeria, 55 days this Saturday, continued [...] Full text...
16 december 2009 - 22:37:00
Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- The third edition of the International Christian Celestial Music Festival starts on Friday in Cotonou, sources [...] Full text...
18 november 2009 - 18:22:00
New York- US (PANA) -- The winning photographs of an eco-themed photo contest sho wed pro-environmental activities in Africa, featuring [...] Full text...
24 october 2009 - 09:14:00
Accra- Ghana (PANA) â" The dramatic victory of Ghana's U--20 side, the Black Sat ellites, over Brazil in the finals [...] Full text...
23 october 2009 - 21:20:00
Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- The dramatic victory of Ghana's U-20 side, the Black Satellites, over Brazil in the finals of [...] Full text...
22 august 2009 - 18:53:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- The 60-day amnesty programme initiated by the Nigerian government Saturday recorded the highest number of arms [...] Full text...
03 july 2009 - 15:06:00
Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- In a move to re-engineer and reposition the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) for greater efficiency [...] Full text...
05 june 2009 - 18:53:00
Bujumbura- Burundi (PANA) -- About 10 executive members of the National Liberatio n Forces (FNL, ex-rebels of Burundi) were Friday [...] Full text...
01 june 2009 - 12:10:00
Niamey- Niger (PANA) -- Amid a tense political atmosphere in Niger, caused by the decision of President Mamadou Tandja to [...] Full text...
17 may 2009 - 16:49:00
Blantyre- Malawi (PANA) -- Malawi's registered 5.
9 million voters go to the polls Tuesday in the southern African country's [...] Full text...
10 april 2009 - 21:17:00
Accra- Ghana (PANA) – Six members of a popular cha-rismatic church in Ghana, the Fountain Gate Chapel, died on Friday [...] Full text...
12 february 2009 - 21:14:00
Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- For the second time in as many days, gunmen have abducted a pastor in Nigeria's restive [...] Full text...
11 february 2009 - 20:15:00
Port Harcourt- Nigeria (PANA) -- A church pastor has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Nigeria's main oil city of [...] Full text...
20 january 2009 - 10:31:00
Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The 'Obama fever' which has gripped South Africa was expected to come to a [...] Full text...