A deadly attack on one of South Sudan’s military camps is a violation of the country’s ceasefire, the country’s main opposition party has said. President Salva Kiir and his rival

The eastern Libya rebel administration has officially handed power to the country’s new interim government, based in Tripoli. A handover ceremony took place on Tuesday in Libya’s second city, Benghazi,

Nigeria is falling apart and in serious danger under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari, the Northern Elders Forum Spokesman Hakeem Baba-Ahmed has said. A former associate of the president,

Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, the Director of Publicity and Advocacy of the Northern Elders Forum says women in some villages in northern Nigeria climb trees to be safe from attacks by bandits.

Oyo State Governor, ‘Seyi Makinde, has said that his administration will complete the 32-kilometre stretch, First Phase of Ibadan Circular Road, before the end of his tenure on May 28,

A new research by Amnesty International (AI) shows that Boko Haram fighters targeted women and girls with rape and other sexual violence, amounting to war crimes, during recent raids in

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is likely to revise higher its growth forecast for Nigeria, its Mission Chief to Nigeria, Jesmin Rahman, said Tuesday. Reuters quoted Rahman to have said

Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom on Tuesday dismissed the allegation that attack on him by gunmen last Saturday during a visit to his farm, was stage-managed, warning that 2023 general

The military on Tuesday stepped up efforts in hunting down gunmen, suspected to be herdsmen, who attacked Benue State Governor, Dr. Samuel Ortom, last Saturday, as troops combed forest and

Flags flew at half-staff as Niger Republic began observing three days of national mourning for the 137 victims of coordinated raids on villages in the southwest. The killings on Sunday

Nigeria’s organised labour on Tuesday secured a major ally in the federal government in its battle against the National Assembly over a bill seeking to decentralise national minimum wage negotiations.

Troops from Eritrea have been taking part in the conflict in the northern region of Tigray, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, has admitted. This is the first time the East

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Monday vigorously defended the approval of a whopping $1.5 billion for the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt refinery, maintaining that apart from following

Nigeria’s Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Niyi Adebayo, Monday said the Bank of Industry (BoI) has finalised plans to deploy a $1billion syndicated-term loan to support the Micro

The Nigerian government has said it will ensure the arrest and prosecution of travellers found to be in possession of fake coronavirus test results. In making the announcement, the Nigeria

The Northern Elders Forum, a group comprising of eminent personalities from northern Nigeria, says the several attacks and instability plaguing the country is as a result of a combination of

Mauritius has begun the use of the Indian-made Covaxin vaccine after running out of its 100,000 doses of Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine. The Covaxin vaccine, produced by India’s Bharat Biotech company is

Authorities in Rwanda say it has confirmed the presence of new variants of the Covid-19 virus first identified in the UK and South Africa. Health Minister Daniel Ngamije told the