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

The Guardian reports that more than 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar amid the nation’s preparation to host the 2022 World Cup. The report cites government data from the

Qantas’s chief executive said international travel might resume by the end of October if the country is fully-vaccinated, as the Australia’s largest airline announced losses in profits due to the

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

Ondo State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, Wednesday renewed the clamour for the decentralisation of the nation’s policing system to empower sub-nationals to secure their spaces. Akeredolu, at his inauguration in

The Board of Directors of the African Export-Import Bank (Afrexim) has approved $2 billion to support the purchase of 270 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines for African countries, including Nigeria.

Goals from Bernardo Silva and Gabriel Jesus saw Manchester City on Wednesday take full control of their Champions League last-16 tie. Pep Guardiola’s side sent out a message to their

Nigeria to Put 5,000 Suspected Boko Haram ‘on Trial Soon’ Nigeria’s Federal Government will soon begin the trial of 5,000 suspected Boko Haram members who are in various detention facilities

Dele Alli scored a magnificent overhead kick as Tottenham eased into the last-16 of the Europa League on Wednesday evening. Less than 24 hours on from Olivier Giroud’s superb bicycle

UNICEF on Wednesday said 55 persons have died of a cholera epidemic in northern Mozambique since the beginning of the year. Nearly 5,000 cases of the disease have been recorded among hundreds of

The GAGE Awards 2021 has finally opened its portal for voting of digital practitioners who have emerged from 20 categories. After two months of nominations, the final list of nominees

The seven Nigerian Air Force officers who died when their Beechcraft King Air B350i aircraft crashed on Sunday will be buried at the National Cemetery, Abuja on Thursday. The Force disclosed this

The death toll during the Boko Haram jihadist attack in the Borno state capital Maiduguri has risen to 16, AFP is reporting. The 16 people who died in the attack on Tuesday in the northeastern city included

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has faulted the “hypocrisy and double standards” in the global distribution of Covid-19 vaccines. President Kagame made the comments in a tweet after the World Health

A flight carrying 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine produced by the Serum Institute of India landed in Ghana’s capital Accra, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations

Celtic manager Neil Lennon has resigned with his side 18 points adrift of Rangers in the Scottish Premiership. Lennon took charge for a second spell in February 2019 when Brendan

Guinea has relaunched its Ebola vaccine campaign in the town of Gouecke after a fresh outbreak of the deadly disease struck the country this month, killing five people. The new cases