The United States has announced the removal of the Visa Reciprocity Fee for all Nigerians seeking visas to the country. The Nigerian government revealed that “the positive development”, effective December

Laurent Gbagbo has been issued Ivorian passports, enabling the former Ivory Coast president to return home from exile in Belgium before the end of the year. Gbagbo has been living in Belgium since he

The nominations for the Headies, Nigeria’s premier music award show, have been released, with Wizkid, Davido, Fireboy DML and Burna Boy gaining the most nods. Wizkid earned nominations for Best Recording of

Mariah Carey has teamed up with two vocal powerhouses, Ariana Grande and Jennifer Hudson, for a new version of her original Christmas song, “Oh Santa!” The festive song was released along with Carey’s Magical Christmas

The Court of Appeal in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Friday affirmed the death penalty imposed on Maryam Sanda, a mother of two, who was sentenced to death for the murder

Mozambique’s health minister has told the country’s parliament that the East African country could receive up to six million doses of coronavirus vaccines for its 30 million population. Armindo Tiago said Mozambique

Hundreds of Google employees are rallying behind an Ethiopian-born AI expert who they allege has been subjected to “racism, gaslighting, censorship” and “a retaliatory firing” by management. Timnit Gebru said on Thursday that

Letitia Wright has faced Twitter backlash after posting a link to a YouTube video questioning whether people should take any prospective COVID-19 vaccine and the safety of vaccines generally. The Black

Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja has ordered that a former chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, be remanded at the Kuje Correctional

The Nigeria Police has applied for the withdrawal of a suit that sought to stop several states’ judicial panels of inquiry investigating allegations of brutality and human rights abuses against the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery

The United Nations has warned that over 20 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo are facing acute food insecurity, in a dramatic rise from last year. “The number of

The EndSARS hashtag has again topped Nigeria’s Twitter Trends. The last time the #EndSARS was the number one trend on Twitter, the country witnessed a tremendous expression of outrage from

Former US Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton are volunteering to get their Covid-19 vaccines on camera to promote public confidence in the vaccine’s safety once the

Forty-eight (48) families who were bereaved by the killing at a rice field in Borno State have been given N600,000 (about 1,500) to get over the loss of loved ones

Rap legend and entrepreneur Dr. Dre suffered a huge setback in court with a judge siding with his estranged wife Nicole Young and ordering the music mogul to hand over all his financial documents. It’s

Wizkid‘s fourth studio album ‘Made In Lagos’ has been listed among The Guardian UK‘s Top 50 Best Albums of 2020. The 14-track album, released on October 30, was ranked by the publication

More than twenty members of Mozambique’s security forces have been killed and 15 others injured after an ambush by Islamist militants in Matambalale village in the district of Muidumbe. A group

Outspoken Hong Kong pro-democracy advocate and media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been refused bail on a fraud charge amid a growing crackdown on dissent in the semi-autonomous city. Jimmy Lai