Every day, Gladys, a 33-year-old vendor in Buea, the capital of Cameroon’s Southwest region, heads to Muea market to sell vegetables, sweets and other food items. “But only after the

If part of your resolutions for 2021 was to lose some weight, this is about the time of the year when they start to fall apart and you start to

At least 44 people were crushed to death at an over-crowded religious bonfire festival in Israel on Friday, medics said, in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as a “heavy

The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has appealed to leaders in Nigeria to take deliberate steps at de-escalating the rising tension and promote peace and tolerance among the citizens, noting that “If we allow

Rapper Kodak Black has pleaded guilty to assault and battery in the US. The case relates to an incident involving a high school student following a show in Florence County,

Acclaimed Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has made a heartfelt tribute on Facebook to her mother, who died on 1 March. Adichie wrote about the pain of having her heart

Nigeria’s main opposition political party the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked the country’s President Muhammadu Buhari to as a matter of urgency declare a national state of emergency on

The Rivers State Government in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria has imposed a curfew on the 23 Local Government Areas of the State with effect from Thursday over possibilities of deadly

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has dismissed the entire board of directors of the country’s medical supplies agency that has been hit by a series of scandals. The Kenya Medical Supplies Authority’s

The Nigerian Government has declared Monday, May 3, a public holiday to mark the 2021 International Workers Day Celebration. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola made the declaration on behalf of the

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said Nigeria is facing extra-ordinary security challenges, but has an ally in United States who is equally addressing the situation with her.

Three abducted students of the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi (FUAM) in northcentral Benue State have regained their freedom. Catherine Anene, the Benue state police public relations officer confirmed the

South Africa has resumed giving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to health care workers after a more than two-week pause in the use of the only Covid-19 inoculation in the

Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed 110 burial tombs in an ancient site in the Nile Delta province of Dakahlia around 150 kilometres in the northeast of Cairo. Tourism and Antiquities Ministry said the

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched a new $90 million malaria control effort in eight Nigerian vulnerable states. The eight states are Akwa Ibom, Benue, Cross River,

More than 30 prisoners have escaped after a police van that was transporting them to a law court was attacked by gunmen in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Some prisoners remained in