Spry and gray-haired, many dressed in their Sunday best or colorful African prints — and all sporting masks — dozens of South Africans aged 60 and over gathered at a

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Thursday served notice that it would embark on a nationwide strike without notice if the Kaduna State Government remained adamant and recalcitrant or refused to

The Acting Inspector-General of Police (IG), Mr. Usman Alkali Baba, Thursday described the clamour for state police, which topped demands at zonal public hearings on constitution review held by the

The US says Abidemi Rufai, a senior special assistant to Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, governor of Ogun remains in custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York

The Nigerian government has released a second batch of names of travellers who reportedly violated the protocol for international passengers. According to the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 the

French President Emmanuel Macron, in a visit to Rwanda, has said France recognised its “responsibility” in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, asking for forgiveness for his country’s role but without offering

Thirty bodies have been pulled from a river where a boat carrying more than 150 passengers sank in northern Nigeria. Authorities in the West African Country said only 20 people

Major General Farouk Yahaya is now Nigeria’s new Chief of Army Staff following his appointment by the country’s leader Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday. Mr Yahaya replaces the late Lieutenant General

The US says it will halt its security assistance to Mali following the latest political developments which saw the departure of two civilian leaders. The US State Department in a

Colonel Assimi Goita, Mali’s head of the former junta in the West African country, has declared himself the transitional president after stripping the country’s interim president and former prime minister

About 24 hours after the Accountant-General of the Federation, Alhaji Ahmed Idris, claimed that the recovered £4.2 million loot had been returned to Delta State, the Office of the Accountant

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday described the reported capsizing of a boat in Ngaski Local Government Area of Kebbi State as devastating, offering his condolences to the families of those

President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday met with the Chairman of the Presidential Council of Libya, Mr. Mohammed Younis Menfi, in Abuja and emphasised the primacy of security in the stability of

Visiting West African mediators have met Mali’s senior military figures who carried out the country’s second coup in less than a year. On Tuesday a military colonel – who was

A former South African president, Jacob Zuma has pleaded not guilty in a corruption trial involving a $5 billion arms deal from the 1990s. He is facing 16 counts of

The Kaduna state governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, has sacked 19 political appointees including Mr. Ben Kure, his Political Adviser. A Government House issued on Wednesday in Kaduna said the 19

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Egypt on the next leg of a diplomatic mission aimed at strengthening a cease-fire that ended an 11-day war between Israel

Mali’s interim vice president, Colonel Assimi Goita has said that he seized power after the transitional president and prime minister failed to consult him about the formation of a new

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its Production Sharing Contract (PSC) partners Tuesday executed joint agreements to renew Oil Mining Lease (OML) 118 for another 20 years. The corporation

Despite the claim by the federal government that it has returned to the Delta State Government the money recovered from associates of a former Governor of the state, Chief James