Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has warned state governors on the dangers of rewarding armed bandits stating that such policies can be disastrous. President Buhari in a tweet on Friday said

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration will not succumb to blackmail by bandits who target innocent school students in the expectations of huge ransom payments. The Nigerian leader’s comment

Hours after the abduction of 317 schoolgirls in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara, the Governor, Bello Matawalle has ordered the immediate closure of all boarding schools in the state.

Cameroonian soldiers on a revenge attack in a village nearly a year ago saw them rape at least 20 women, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says it has documented evidence of

Eritrea’s government has strongly rejected accusations that its troops fighting in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region killed hundreds of people in the holy city of Aksum over two days in November.

International rights group, Amnesty International (AI) says the abduction of over 300 schoolgirls in northwestern Zamfara state shows that “education is under attack in northern Nigeria”. ARISE News had reported

The Nigeria Union of Journalists has called on authorities and the international community to hold Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi responsible for any bandit related mishap that may happen to

The Niger State Government in Nigeria on Thursday accused the federal government of not doing enough to assist the state in rescuing the 27 pupils of Government Science College, Kagara

More than 300 schoolgirls have been abducted by suspected bandits from a Government Girls Secondary School in Mafara local government area of northwestern Zamfara state. The bandits invaded the school

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has warned against ethnic profiling promising that his administration will continue to deal with insurgents, bandits, kidnappers and other criminals who constitute a threat to innocent

RwandAir is set to become the first African airline to trial the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Travel Pass to enable safe international travel. airline will begin a three-week trial

Former Chief of Naval Administration Rear Admiral Joe Aikhomu (rtd) is dead. Aikhomu, 65, passed on Thursday morning in Abuja allegedly from Covid-19 complications. The deceased who was younger brother

The seven Nigerian Airforce personnel who died in a plane crash on Sunday have been laid to rest leaving their family members and friends in tears. The burial took place

Chairman of Nigeria’s Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) Itse Sagay has expressed concern that the country’s attorney-general Abubakar Malami may interfere in the duties of Abdulrasheed Bawa, the newly-appointed

Former President and opposition leader in the West African Ivory Coast, Henri Konan Bédié, on Wednesday, called for a “massive” vote in the March 6 legislative elections. “President Gbagbo and

Fitch Ratings has revised downward its 2021 growth forecast for Nigeria to 1.6 per cent, from its previous expectation of 2.3 per cent. The global rating agency in a statement

Drugmaker, Moderna says it has shipped doses of its variant-specific booster shot to the National Institutes of Health for clinical trials, a development that is part of Moderna’s efforts to

Ghanaian authorities have shut an LGBT resource centre that was recently opened in the country’s capital, Accra, following a public outcry. “We no longer have access to our safe space