Ugandan Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng has received a COVID-19 vaccine jab as the first person in the country’s inoculation campaign, with healthcare workers receiving the AstraZeneca jabs as part

Chairman/Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brig. General Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has called for an urgent strengthening of regional and international cooperation to identify and

Organised Labour in Nigeria has said they are ready for war and threatened to shut down the country if the National Assembly does not rescind its plan to remove minimum

Nigeria’s House of Representatives has asked the Federal Government to halt the disbursement of the £4.2m – about 2.2 billion Naira that was seized from a former Delta State Governor

Mauritius has entered a 15-day national lockdown on Wednesday morning after a rise in Covid-19 cases since the beginning of the month. The Indian Ocean island nation recorded five new cases

Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle has given a two-months ultimatum to armed bandits to surrender their weapons and embrace the state’s peace initiative, warning “political actors” against compromising the security of the state.

The Delta State government in Nigeria on Tuesday faulted the decision of the federal government to spend the £4.2 million forfeited by associates of a former governor of the state,

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday launched the $3.2 billion rehabilitation and reconstruction of Port Harcourt– Maiduguri eastern narrow gauge railway project, Bonny Deep Sea Port and the Railway Industrial Park,

The United Kingdom has promised to return to Nigeria £4.2 million (about N2.4bn)which was stolen by a former Delta State Governor. The former governor, James Ibori was convicted of money

The Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) has announced its withdrawal from the June Ethiopian election, becoming the second major political party in the country to take such a decision. “OLF regrettably

Governors of Nigeria’s South-South region on Tuesday have demanded an upward review from 2.5 per cent to 10 per cent of oil revenue payments to host oil communities. Chairman of

Authorities in Equatorial Guinea say the death toll from a series of explosions at a military barracks has risen by dozens to at least 98 killed after more bodies were recovered. The blasts

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday expressed Nigeria’s commitment to ensuring political stability in the neighbouring Niger Republic, as it is in the best interest of the country to do so.

The Nigerian Army on Monday warned a Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi and other opinion merchants to exercise restraint not to soil the reputation of the military by

Nigeria’s federal government has commenced the movement of AstraZeneca vaccine to all the states of the federation. The Executive Director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Faisal Shuaib,

Reports suggest Kenyan authorities have banned maize imports from neighbouring Uganda and Tanzania over safety concerns, media outlets in the three countries report. They cite a letter from Kenya’s Agriculture

A judge in Senegal has released opposition leader Ousmane Sonko on bail after days of deadly protests sparked by his arrest last week. “He is going home. He is free,”

Zambian authorities say they are considering deporting a Chinese national after a video shared online showed him riding on a trolley being pulled by a local. In the clip shared

The Nigerian Government says plans are underway to establish specialised courts and judicial divisions that will focus on sexual and gender-based violence (GBV) with some Boko Haram suspects already having sexual violence-related