President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday directed the nation’s service chiefs to ensure synergy in the fight against all forms of insecurity, while also promising that Nigeria will witness a significant

Uganda’s opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine has told Al Jazeera the military has “taken over” his compound just hours after he alleged Thursday’s election was rigged. Bobi Wine said the

The Nigerian government on Friday warned her citizens against fake coronavirus vaccines as there are reports that some are in circulation. with the country’s National Agency for Food Drug and Administration Control (NAFDAC) urging the

The UN refugee agency has reported a sharp increase in refugees fleeing the violence in the Central African Republic. Some 60,000 people have left the country in the past week

More than 100 human rights advocate, activists and musicians from across the world have called on the African Union, US, UK, EU and all people of conscience to condemn in

Uganda has become the 15th country in Africa to restrict social media access due to elections since 2015, a new report has shown. The researchers at privacy protection company Surfshark

Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has taken a significant early lead in the presidential race, according to preliminary results released by the electoral commission on Friday morning. Mr Museveni has garnered

Following concerns over the opaqueness of the recent allocation of expected 100,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines to states by the federal government, governors of Nigeria’s 36 states are making moves

After two days of meetings with Malian political and civil society figures, the mediator for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), former president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has expressed

In a self-assessment on Thursday, President Muhammadu Buhari awarded his administration high marks, saying the country is better than he met it more than five years ago. But the main

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has cautioned those threatening the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah, to stop their “unlawful” actions. It also asked President Muhammadu Buhari

The Nigerian Army’s Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Friday raised the alarm over the purchase of fertilisers by suspected terrorists to manufacture explosives. The Coordinator of the Directorate of Defence Media

The Nigerian government has said the January 18, 2021 resumption date for schools is unchanged. The country’s ministry of education on Thursday in a statement and signed by Ben Goong, director, press and public relations

Preliminary research has detected a new variant of the coronavirus in Kenya, with the research carried out by the state-linked Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) The variant, unique to Kenya,

Dubai-based airline Emirates says it will suspend all flights to and from South Africa from 16 to 28 January. The decision had been taken for operational reasons, it said, without

Several governors in Nigeria have criticised the number of doses of Covid-19 vaccines allocated to their states by the Federal Government as the country prepares to receive its first batch