Editors in Nigeria have called on the federal government to immediately reconsider the suspension of operations of Twitter as the move projects the Nigerian government as a dictatorship. The editors under

Governor of Nigeria’s southwestern Oyo State, Seyi Makinde says the federal government’s decision to ban Twitter operations in the country will affect investor’s confidence and called on the Nigerian leader to

The United Nations humanitarian chief has warned that famine is imminent in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region as well as the country’s north and there is a risk that hundreds of

The latest mass abduction victims in northern Nigeria, 136 pupils kidnapped last Sunday from Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School in Tegina, Niger State, are all children from poor homes, paying paltry

Hundreds of thousands of citizens have opted for the use of a Virtual Private Network (VPN) to boycott the indefinite suspension of Twitter by the Nigerian government. The federal government

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has threatened legal action against the federal government if it doesn’t rescind its decision to suspend indefinitely operations of Twitter in the country. President of

Egyptian authorities say six teenage girls and at least 19 other people have been killed in a fire at a younger offenders’ institute in the country’s capital, Cairo. Officials said

Uganda’s national hospital, Mulago is reporting an unprecedented number of coronavirus patients as the East African country battles a second wave of the pandemic. The national referral hospital’s deputy executive

The Kenyan government has formally challenged a ruling by the country’s High Court that found that President Uhuru Kenyatta’s proposed constitutional reforms were illegal. The sweeping constitutional changes, popularly known

A South African mother has been arrested alongside two accomplices for allegedly attempting to sell her newborn twins, local media report. She is alleged to be a drug addict and

Nigeria’s presidency has expressed disgust over an article in Foreign Affairs magazine that described the West African country as a failed state, with the federal government accusing the US-based magazine

Some African oil-producing nations on Thursday opposed what they described as the global conspiracy to shut down the economies of the continent’s resource-dependent countries. They urged members to take urgent

France is halting joint military operations with Mali over last week’s coup in the West African country. It said the suspension would continue until it received guarantees about a return

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has defended the dismissal of the governing council of Lagos State University by the state government and instead blamed the varsity’s governing council

Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Thursday allayed concerns about possible mass retirement of top military officers superior to the Chief of Army, Maj. Gen. Farouk Yahaya. It said contrary to

Nigeria’s federal government has said it is preposterous for anyone to declare Nigeria a failed state due to the country’s security challenges. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed,

Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday expressed worry over the state of the nation and blamed bad leadership for the nation’s woes. The former president, while receiving a book