Mali’s leader Col Assimi Goïta gave a short address Wednesday to the nation justifying the coup he led a year ago. He said the army could not just stand by and

The United States is sending nearly half a million doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine to Rwanda, including the first doses from the Biden administration’s 500 million global pledge earlier this

The United Arab Emirates has excluded Nigeria from a list of countries whose citizens are eligible to apply for visa-on-arrival into the Middle East country. According to reports, Etihad Airways released

Nigeria and Saudi Arabia have agreed to strengthen partnership in the fight against trafficking of illicit drugs between the two countries. The anti-narcotics agencies of the two countries, Nigeria’s National

Uganda’s constitutional court is scrapping a controversial anti-pornography law whose provisions included a ban on wearing miniskirts in public, in a decision hailed by women’s rights campaigners. The judgement on

Nigeria’s federal government has said it will not immediately end its current subsidy of petrol, saying it intends to manage the process to ensure that vulnerable Nigerians are not heavily

The abductors of the 15 students and four staff of the College of Agriculture and Animal Science in Bakura Local Government Area of Zamfara State in Northwest Nigeria have demanded

By John Shiklam in Kaduna The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has asked Nigeria’s federal government to bring repentant Boko terrorists to justice or release the rest of them still in

A former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has expressed extreme worry over Africa’s “exploding population” and wondered how the African countries intend to feed the ever-growing population. Obasanjo said while the

Southern Africa’s regional bloc on Tuesday hailed Zambia for overseeing a peaceful transition of power after veteran opposition politician Hakainde Hichilema won a landslide victory at the ballot box. Mr

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has contributed an additional $20 million to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Somalia to help fight against covid-19 pandemic. This

About 700,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by the United Kingdom (UK) have been received at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. A statement on Tuesday by the British High Commission

No less than 10,000 people, mostly women and children, have fled into Chad from northern Cameroon this week after deadly clashes between herding and fishing communities, the UN has said.

Ibrahim Mantu, a former Deputy President of Nigeria’s Senate is dead. He was aged 74 years. Reports suggest Mantu died in the Nigerian capital, Abuja after a few days of

Ivory Coast is set to roll out vaccinations against Ebola after the country recorded its first known case of the disease since 1994, the health ministry said. “Health workers, close

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday signed the Petroleum Industry Bill 2021 into law. Presidential aide Femi Adesina in a statement said President Buhari who is working from home assented