Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters on Monday accused Borno citizens of frustrating the war against terror by providing information on troops’ movements and activities to Boko Haram. Coordinator of Defence Media Operations,
Nigeria presidential spokesman Garba Shehu has said the agitations and clamour for the sack of Nigeria’s Service Chiefs following several horrible and senseless killings of innocent citizens by Boko Haram insurgents are out of place. [bc_video video_id=”6213225353001″
Lawyers in Cameroon have commenced a boycott of all courts in protest against what they are describing as police brutality. Earlier in November, police officers assaulted and tear-gassed several lawyers
In what seems like a walk back on earlier claims that over 110 farmers were killed in the attack on rice field in Borno State by Boko Haram, the United
Togo’s first woman to run for president alongside another opposition leader are being held by the authorities after they were arrested over the weekend. Brigitte Adjamagbo-Johnson, who in 2010 was
Chibeze Ezekiel, a Ghanaian environmental champion has been announced as the recipient of the Goldman Environmental Prize 2020, citing his commitment to pushing for good governance in Ghana’s environmental sector
Nigerians will remain at the mercy of terrorists as the country has been denied access to acquire adequate weapons to tackle insurgency, that’s according to Lai Mohammed, the Nigerian Minister
The Nigerian government has subtly blamed the slaughtering of over 100 farmers by suspected Boko Haram terrorists on the farmers failure to carry out due diligence and not obtaining a
The Nigerian government has been advised to reign in on fiscal discipline and drastically cut the country’s huge cost of governance in order to exit recession. [bc_video video_id=”6213018112001″ account_id=”6116119081001″ player_id=”CJdhmO46zo”
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Monday summoned lawmakers for an extraordinary session of parliament amid the ongoing conflict in the Tigray region. [bc_video video_id=”6213011023001″ account_id=”6116119081001″ player_id=”CJdhmO46zo” embed=”in-page” padding_top=”56%” autoplay=”autoplay”
Nigeria’s federal government will treat any fresh demonstration against perceived police brutality or any other issue, particularly if it threatens to disrupt peace and security of any part of the
In pursuit of economic recovery and implementation of the Economic Sustainability Plan (ESP), the federal government has announced the installation of N140 billion (about $369m) solar systems in five million
The Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ) project in Nigeria will receive support funding of $500 million from the African Development Bank (AfDP), and $200 million, pledged by the International Fund
Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Zulum has been told that the death toll of rice farmers killed in the state may rise above the 43 corpses buried on Sunday morning.
A new study by a consortium of African medical doctors has given reasons why the Covid-19 pandemic appeared not to have had the catastrophic effect on the health indices in
Suspected Boko Haram terrorists have killed dozens of people working in rice fields in northeastern Nigeria, according to several local sources. The attackers on Saturday tied up the agricultural workers
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says government forces are now “fully in control” of the regional capital of the northern Tigray region. The army earlier entered Mekelle as it stepped
The United Nations has said Sudan needs $150 million in aid to cope with the flood of Ethiopian refugees crossing its border from conflict-stricken Tigray. The UN refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi while visiting
The Nigerian government is demanding an “immediate apology and retraction from the British government over an “unsubstantiated” claim by a member of its parliament that a former Nigerian head of state Yakubu Gowon, looted
Students in Nigeria may be heading back to the classrooms after the meeting between the Federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) ended on a positive note, with
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