Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has announced DIG Usman Alkali Baba as acting Inspector General of Police, with immediate effect, according to the country’s the Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi.

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has announced plans for an expert task force to advise government on anti-coronavirus measures. The announcement is seen as the coming of major changes in

The Union for Peace in CAR (UPC), one of the most powerful armed groups in the Central African Republic (CAR) has vowed to withdraw from the rebel alliance whose main

Polytechnics in Nigeria have been shut following an indefinite strike action embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) over the non-implementation of its demands by the federal

Judiciary workers in Nigeria have shut down the Supreme Court in the nation’s capital Abuja, in protest for financial autonomy for the arm of government. The protest which commenced on Tuesday comes as

A pall of controversy enveloped the announcement Monday of the demise of the Olu of Warri, Ogiame Ikenwoli, and the appointment of his successor, Prince Tsola Emiko. The announcement made

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari says Monday’s deadly attack on the Police Command Headquarters and the Correctional Facility in Owerri, the Imo State capital was an act of terrorism.Mr. Buhari has

The Kaduna State Government says five of the thirty-nine students abducted from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka, in the northwestern region of the state have been “recovered” by

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has denied reports suggesting that the wreckage of the missing NAF Alpha Jet 475 has been found in Bama, in northeastern Borno state, describing the

Gunmen in Imo State have attacked a correctional facility and police command in Owerri, the Imo State capital, freeing some inmates in the process The number of inmates released from the facility is yet

Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have kicked off negotiations in Kinshasa over Addis Ababa’s contested Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile, officials said. Foreign ministers from the countries on Sunday made the

Consultants have taken over the provision of skeletal services to patients following the ongoing strike by the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD), which enters the fifth day on Monday.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and a prominent Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, have called on Nigeria’s federal government to set up special courts to try bandits, kidnappers and bearers

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari says perpetrators of recent “terrorist” attacks in south eastern Anambra and Ebonyi states will not be spared. Mr Buhari in a statement signed by his media aide,

A grand parade will convey 22 ancient Egyptian royal mummies in specially designed capsules across the capital Cairo on Saturday to a new museum home where they can be displayed

The president of Namibia has been implicated in new allegations of corruption involving the country’s lucrative fishing industry by an investigation released by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

In an event certain to capture the imagination of keen observers across the country, Nigeria’s First Lady Aisha Buhari will next week unveil a new book, in collaboration with independent charity,

Mohamed Bazoum has been sworn-in as Niger President in a democratic watershed overshadowed by armed groups’ violence and an alleged coup bid two days ago. The inauguration on Friday marks

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says one of its fighter jet deployed to fight Boko Haram insurgents in the northeast may have crashed noting that the whereabouts of the two