A member of the National Assembly, Senator Olamilekan Adeola, has canvassed a special status as well as grant for Lagos following the massive destruction that followed the #ENDSARS protest that

Emirates has announced an increase to its four times a week service to Lagos to a daily flight from November 1. The expanded schedule of daily services offers enhanced connectivity

Investors in the Nigerian equity market gained N1.934 trillion (about $5bn) in October as the market recorded its best monthly gain since 2018, following the continued inflow of funds searching

The Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere and its Niger Delta counterpart, Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), have expressed their support for the weekend’s call by Nigeria Governors Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has called on the country’s youths who have been protesting against police brutality and bad governance under the movement #EndSARS to put an end to the

Residents of Calabar, the Cross River state capital have called on the state government to engage youths in meaningful vocations following the looting and vandalisation of public and private properties

The African Development Bank Group has approved an emergency assistance relief package of $440,000 to fund ongoing humanitarian and emergency relief efforts in areas recently hit by floods in South

The United States Government working with the Nigerian government rescued an American citizen abducted last week in Niger but held hostage in Nigeria, according to multiple sources. The daring high-risk

Nigeria’s southwestern Lagos State has lifted the curfew imposed following the widespread violence and looting that erupted after the hijack of the peaceful #EndSARS protests. “The 12 a.m. to 4a.m.

US forces on Saturday carried out a rescue operation on the border between Nigeria and Niger Republic in Sokoto State, to recover an American citizen being held by armed men, the

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara seeks reelection in a presidential vote Saturday marked by an opposition boycott and clashes over his bid to secure a contested third term. At least

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has won re-election with a landslide victory in a poll that the opposition has described as fraudulent. Magufuli’s main rival, Tundu Lissu, has said his party’s

A Nigerian professor and former executive secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme Usman Yusuf says the #EndSARS demonstrations were a veiled attempt by selfish politicians to effect a regime

A Kenyan court has sentenced two men to 11 and 26 years in prison for supporting the 2013 attack on Nairobi’s upscale Westgate Mall that left 67 people dead. Mohamed

A former president of Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo has said Saturday’s presidential election spells “disaster” for the country and called for dialogue. It’s Gbagbo’s first public comments since he was

The Ugandan government has banned a coalition of over 60 organizations formed to monitor the country’s 2021 general elections on grounds that it is illegal. The country’s National Bureau for

The Lagos State judicial panel investigating accusations of police brutality on citizens and shooting at the Lekki Toll Plaza has found about six bullet casings at the toll gate. The

Lagos politician, Olabode George has described as sacrilegious the collection of internally generated revenue in Lagos state by a private firm called AlphaBeta and earns around N7.5bn ($19 million) monthly,

The head of the Nigeria Police Force has described as “untrue” a report by rights group Amnesty International that the police violated human rights during the recent #EndSARS protests and