Candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the Lagos East Senatorial bye-election Tokunbo Abiru has been declared winner of the election. Results announced by Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)

Renowned Nigerian Billionaire Chief Harry Ayoade Akande, the Agba Oye of Ibadanland, has died aged 77. Akande passed away in the early hours of Saturday December 5. According to a

Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has spent the last 24 hours struggling to convince top shots in the Presidency that he was unaware of the lawsuit that came

The United Nations has said that ongoing fighting “in many parts” of Ethiopia’s Tigray is complicating efforts to deliver humanitarian aid despite a deal granting the UN access to territory

Governors of the 36 states of the federation ended their meeting late on Thursday in Abuja with a resolve to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari over raging insecurity in the

Former Minister of Defence, General Domkat Bali (Rtd) died Friday at the age of 80. Bali served as Minister of Defence and member of the Supreme Military Council between 1984

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 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

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 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 Ugandan presidential candidates’ two-day debate has been cancelled indefinitely. According to local media reports, the inter-religious council that was organising the debate scheduled to start on Friday said the

President Muhammadu Buhari is likely to appear before the House of Representatives on December 10 or 15 to brief it on what his administration is doing to tame the worsening

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

Reports suggest South Africa has missed its first payment to join the World Health Organization’s initiative to help poorer countries get hold of coronavirus vaccines, the country’s News24 website is

As Nigerians continue to battle the horrors perpetrated by terrorists, the country’s Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Tukur Yusuf Buratai, has said that “there is (a) likelihood of terrorism

Central African Republic’s Constitutional Court has ruled that former President François Bozizé cannot run for election in the vote scheduled for 27 December. According to the AFP news agency, the

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