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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Friday reiterated his support for a united Nigeria, saying the cost for Nigeria not to continue existing “is much more than the cost to make

Former Malian interim President Bah Ndaw and his prime minister, Moctar Ouane, have been freed from house arrest by the authorities who deposed them in May, a committee monitoring the

Nigeria’s federal government has commenced the implementation of the no work, no pay rule on striking doctors with effect from Monday August 2, 2021. In a letter dated Friday, August

Thirty-two of the remaining sixty-three abducted students of Bethel Baptist High school, Damishi, in Nigeria’s northern Kaduna state have been released from captivity. The chairman of the Christian Association of

The United Kingdom (UK) has donated another 592,880 COVID-19 vaccine doses to Nigeria, bringing the total to 1,292,640 doses given to the African country by the European country in August

Moussa Faki Mahamat, the Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union has announced the appointment of a former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo as his High Representative for the Horn

Worried by the increasing medical emergencies orchestrated by the recent violence in Jos and other parts of Plateau State, the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), Jos University Teaching Hospital

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned the Security Council the conflict in Ethiopia has spread beyond the Tigray region and “a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding before our eyes”. “Inflammatory rhetoric

Mali’s former prime minister, Boubeye Maiga, has been arrested for his role in the purchase of a presidential plane during the rule of deposed President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, his lawyer

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is once more set to deduct about N215.3 billion from its contribution to next month’s joint Federation Account. The aforementioned amount is a combination

Nigeria’s Inspector-general of Police Usman Baba has received the report of a Special Investigation Panel (SIP) investigating the indictment of the suspended Head of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT),

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Dr. Simon Harry as the new Statistician-General of the Federation to head the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). The newly appointed general is to succeeded

State-owned Zambia Daily Mail newspaper reports that the country’s new President Hakainde Hichilema will not move from his private residence to State House. This is despite his predecessor Edgar Lungu

South Africa’s economy is 11% bigger than previously estimated after statistics authorities changed the way they calculate the gross domestic product. GDP at current prices measured 5.52 trillion rand ($369

There was palpable confusion in Jos, Plateau State on Wednesday as unknown gunmen again attacked Yelwa-Zangam, a community behind the University of Jos, in Jos North Local Government Area of

Ekiti State First Lady, Erelu Bisi Fayemi on Wednesday posited that the dreadful culture of silence about sexual harassment in higher institutions of learning must be broken. Speaking at the

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, said Tuesday’s attack on the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna, had provided grounds for more urgent measures to rid the country of “vermin” and emancipate

Ethiopia’s communications security agency says the East African country is developing its own social media platform to rival Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp, though it does not plan to block the global services. It’s