A South African court has allowed former President Jacob Zuma to appeal a ruling that ordered him back to jail after being released in September on medical parole, meaning he

A brawl has broken out in Ghana’s parliament during a late-night session over a contentious government-proposed levy on electronic transactions. MPs shoved, pushed and threw punches at each other, while

Nigeria’s Federal Government has declared Monday 27th, Tuesday 28th December 2021 and Monday, 3rd January 2022 as public holidays to mark Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day celebrations respectively.

Nigerians have not heard the last of President Muhammadu Buhari’s refusal to assent to the 2021 Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, as the senate, on Tuesday, showed readiness for a showdown

Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, has declared that his government has no other considerations for captured bandits, except to send them back to God to answer for their activities

A Madagascan minister was one of two survivors to have swum some 12 hours to shore Tuesday after their helicopter crashed off the island’s northeastern coast, authorities said. A search

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has launched its yuletide season campaign with the theme: #CelebrateResponsibly as part of measures to reduce spread of the COVID-19 during the yuletide.

Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari has withheld his assent to the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2021. In a letter to the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, exclusively obtained by THISDAY, the president

The death toll from the attacks on communities in Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State has risen to 40 following the discovery of two corpses in the bushes by

Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday returned to Abuja after a three-day official visit to Turkey. The president who arrived the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikwe International airport in

The Omicron coronavirus variant largely evades immunity from past infection or two vaccine doses, according to the latest Imperial modelling. The new report (Report 49), from the Imperial College London

President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday, said the last vestiges of terrorists were the ones soft-targeting innocent citizens, looting their assets and burning houses, because they were already frustrated as a

Nigeria has averted a diplomatic row with Togo over a viral video where some Nigerian citizens were seen to be maltreated at the Gnassingbe Eyadema International Airport in Lome. A

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in clandestine operations on two Lagos drug stores have arrested a pregnant woman and four men, including 62 years old with

Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari has called on the Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit to provide concrete support to help defeat terrorism and insurgency on the African continent. The president who made the

Anxiety has gripped Nigerians over the conduct of future elections as the constitutional time limit for President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2021 ends on Sunday.

Canada announced on Friday the lifting of a ban on foreign travellers from Nigeria and nine other African countries. The country also re-imposed testing, warning that the Omicron variant of