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

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Godwin Emefiele, on Tuesday appealed to bandits and others involved in unlawful activities to drop their arms and embrace the

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Tuesday set up a committee to conduct a safety audit of its operational and engineering units. The committee is coming three days after the

President Muhammadu Buhari is opposed to open grazing of cattle, the presidency said Tuesday in an apparent effort to douse the rising critique of its statement on Monday, quoting the

Nigeria’s Accountant-General, Ahmed Idris says the recently repatriated £4.2 million loot recovered from a former governor of Delta State, James Ibori and his associates has been returned to the state

Gunmen in the early hours of Tuesday attacked the Iwollo Police Division in Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State and razed the station. The Commissioner of Police in Enugu