Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu will go into self-isolation immediately, after one of his close aides tested positive for Covid-19 on Thursday. Sanwo-Olu and other members of his team will

As Africa’s biggest fashion show kicks off, several protocols have been put in place by organisers of the ARISE FASHION WEEK to ensure the safety of participants. All participants, including

Nigeria’s 85-year old Ambassador to the US Justice Sylvanus Nsofor is dead. He passed away on Thursday in a Maryland hospital. Though no official statement has been issued, competent sources have confirmed

A World Bank’s Nigeria Development Update (NDU) has shown that an average Nigerian may witness a setback of decades of economic growth as the country could enter its deepest recession since the 1980s. The

Burkina Faso is celebrating its 60 years of independence on Friday with the theme of the celebration being “National cohesion and patriotic commitment for a sustainable development of Burkina Faso

Morocco has become the latest Arab League country to agree to normalise relations with Israel in a deal brokered with US help. As part of the deal, the US has

The United States has shed more light on why it added Nigeria to the religious freedom blacklist, attributing it to the federal government’s alleged violations of religious freedom. The US,

The House of Representatives Thursday faulted the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. AbubakarMalami (SAN), for querying its power to summon President Muhammadu Buhari. It fired

ARISE Fashion Week, one of the biggest fashion events in Africa, is underway in Lagos, Nigeria, as 30 young designers converge on Africa’s entertainment capital to compete for prize money

The Nigerian House of Representatives has said it was right to invite President Muhammadu Buhari and was not aimed at ridiculing him over security matters. House spokesman, Benjamin Kalu told

Local media in Kenya reports that the country’s High Court has ordered the country’s 416 lawmakers to pay back 1.2 billion shillings ($10 million) after ruling that the money had been unlawfully given

International observer groups from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Commonwealth have hailed the Ghanaian government for its conduct of the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections, describing the election

A High Court has ordered the Kenyan government to give compensation of about $30,000 each to four people for failing to protect them from sexual and gender-based attacks during the violence

Supermodel and businesswoman Naomi Campbell is in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, for Arise Fashion Week, an event she’s backed since its launch in 2018. This season, the main attraction is the

Nigeria’s Former minister of finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has assured Nigeria and other African countries of access to COVID-19 vaccines from the end of January through the first quarter of 2021.

A former chairman of the Nigerian Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT) Abdulrasheed Maina collapsed before a federal high court in the nation’s capital, Abuja where he is being tried on charges of money laundering. On Wednesday,

South Africa is now officially experiencing a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, the country’s health minister has said. Minister Zweli Mkhize said four provinces – Western Cape, Eastern Cape, KwaZulu Natal and

Ethiopia’s federal forces say it has freed 1,000 soldiers who were “kidnapped” in the northern state of Tigray by fighters linked to the now-overthrown regional administration. Among those freed was the