President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, has called on policymakers in Nigeria and other African countries to unlock over $1 trillion funds locked in pension and

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has directed mobile network operators to immediately suspend the sale and activation of new SIM cards to allow an audit of the Subscriber Registration Database.

Incumbent Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has won the tightly contested 2020 election for a second term. He polled 6,730,

Ghana’s National Election Security Taskforce (NESTF) says it has recorded a total of sixty-one electoral and post-electoral incidents nationwide, noting that twenty-one of the incidents are true cases of electoral violence, six of which involved

Ghana’s media outfit Joy News has projected that incumbent president, Nana Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will win the country’s tightly contested 2020 election. Joy News says the New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate

Nigeria’s Minister of Justice and attorney-general, Abubakar Malami has said the National Assembly lacks the constitutional powers to summon the country’s President Muhammadu Buhari over his “operational use of the armed forces”. Malami

Chairman of the THISDAY ARISE Group, Prince Nduka Obaigbena, has joined Chairman, Vanguard newspapers, Sam Amuka and Chairman, Governing Council of Nigerian Institute of Journalism, NIJ, Aremo Olusegun Osoba as

Developing countries including Nigeria are being left behind in the global sprint to end the coronavirus pandemic because the majority of the most promising vaccines have been bought up by

Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) has said it’s confident of declaring results for the country’s 2020 presidential election today and comes amidst the failure of the electoral umpire to meet an

China’s Supreme Court has hired Uganda’s former Chief Justice, Bart Katureebe, as a member of its expert committee on the adjudication of international commercial disputes. Justice Katureebe will sit on

The Nigerian government has said the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) through its demands “is placing itself above the law of the land and no government will encourage it

President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday signalled Nigeria’s readiness to reopen its land borders which it shut in August 2019 to curb commodity and small arms’ smuggling. According to him, since

During the emergency meeting of All Progressives Congress (APC) National Executive Committee (NEC) at the State House, Abuja, a prominent South-west governor put Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi

A US official and other diplomatic sources have backed accusations that Eritrean soldiers are fighting alongside Ethiopian troops to help Abiy Ahmed’s government in the war on the Tigray People’s

Ethiopian troops shot at and detained UN staff after they drove through check-points in the conflict-hit northern Tigray region, government spokesman Redwan Hussein has confirmed. The UN team ignored instructions

World human rights body, Amnesty International has said that older people have borne the brunt of insecurity in northern Nigeria caused by numerous Boko Haram attacks with many starved or

For the second day running, fighting broke out in parliament in the Democratic Republic of Congo as police were called in to break up supporters of President Félix Tshisekedi and

Somalia’s state radio is reporting that the country’s immigration department has issued a directive stopping the issuance of visas to Kenyans on arrival in a bid to “ensure security and improve

Ugandan presidential candidate and musician, Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine has said he survived assassination attempts in the last two weeks ahead of next month’s elections The politician last week

As Ghanaians await who leads them for another four years, electoral officers in the West African country are currently counting votes following the presidential and parliamentary elections on Monday. Despite the