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

The Egyptian Drug Authority has announced its approval of the Russian Sputnik V, a month after the start of the vaccination campaign. According to a statement posted on its Facebook

Senior Nigerian lawyers on Wednesday cautioned against the ongoing appeasement of bandits, terrorising several states, particularly in the North-west, through dialogue between them and some governors as well as non-state

No fewer than 18 people have been killed and many others abducted following attacks by bandits on communities in Igabi and Chikun Local Government Areas of Kaduna State. The state

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

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

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

Uganda’s Health Minister Jane Aceng has denied reports that top government officials have been vaccinated against Covid-19 before the country formally receives vaccines. Ms Aceng was reacting to a report