A former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan arrived in Bamako on Tuesday with a delegation and — once again, as the mediator of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, former Head of State, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd); Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar, and former Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, and others will

Former US President Donald Trump has praised Nigeria for banning “evil” Twitter and encouraged other countries to do the same in the name of “free and open speech.” A report

The insistence of state governors to rely on the 45-day window provided in their agreement with the judicial and parliamentary workers for the implementation of its terms may prolong the

The bandits who abducted 156 pupils of Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School in Tegina town of Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State 10 days ago have reduced the ransom they

Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has described President Muhammadu Buhari’s ban of Twitter operations in Nigeria as an ill-advised move to divert the attention of citizens from his failure to

The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has announced the reopening of the Passport application and payment portal effective June 8. Service Public Relations Officer, Amos Okpu disclosed this in a statement

The Commandant General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, (NSCDC), Dr. Ahmed Audi has lamented that about 80 percent of schools in the country are not well secured.

Eritrea has accused the US government of instigating further conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. In a letter to the UN Security Council, Foreign Affairs Minister Osman Saleh accused the US

There appears to be a divided parliament as members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus in the House of Representatives on Tuesday staged a walkout during plenary to protest

In recent years Lagos, Nigeria’s biggest city, has become Africa’s most attractive tech hub for investors. But that could be imperiled by the government’s decision to suspend Twitter’s operations in

Schools in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray, have reopened seven months after the raging conflict forced their closure, state-linked Fana news site reports. The schools are situated in Mekelle, the

Over 30 people were on Sunday killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen in an attack on Odugbeho village in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State. According to a resident of

Seven years after over 200 schoolgirls were abducted by Boko Haram from it’s hostel, Government Secondary School, Chibok wore a new look with the commissioning major facilities by the Minister

The Nigerian federal government’s suspension of the operation of American micro-blogging company, Twitter, in Nigeria, might have left both in a catch-22 situation as the duo have lost millions of

The Northern Elders Forum has advised the Nigerian government not to resist any move for secession by the Igbos if it is supported by the people of the region and

Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama has denied giving conditions for lifting Twitter’s indefinite suspension. At a meeting between the minister and envoys of the US, UK, Ireland, Canada

Leader of Mali’s junta Col Assimi Goïta has officially been sworn in as the troubled country’s interim president and promised “credible, fair and transparent elections” which are expected in February