Colonel Assimi Goita, Mali’s coup leader and newly appointed interim president, has been summoned to an emergency meeting of West African leaders in Ghana. At Sunday’s extraordinary summit, the 15-member

The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Niyi Adebayo and the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, would lead a delegation of Nigerian ministers, governors and

A former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan will on Sunday brief at least ten African Presidents of countries in the ECOWAS region on his fact-finding mission to Mali where he had gone to assess the situation and

The Nigerian Army says it’s killed seven members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN), the militant arm of the pro-Biafra group, IPOB. According to the country’s Army, the “clearance/raid operation”

President Muhammadu Buhari has taken the second dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the State House, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president’s personal physician,

Mali’s constitutional court has named the colonel who led a military coup this week as the country’s new interim leader. The ruling, issued late on Friday, said Assimi Goita would

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Friday revealed that the estimated value in Naira of jewellery seized from former petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke is N14.4 billion (about $35m).

Nigeria’s federal government on Friday defended its choice of Major General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff (COAS), while also revealing plans to immortalise the former COAS,

President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday urged disputing parties in the ongoing political crisis in Mali to settle their differences for the peace and unity of the country. He made this

The Nigerian Presidency says the Muhammadu Buhari administration has recorded giant strides – since he assumed office on May 29, 2015 – enough to make Nigerians proud. The presidency however

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has called on actors in the political crisis in Mali to come together for the peace and unity of the country. Mr Buhari stated this on

Kenya’s health ministry has advised hospitals to stop giving first doses of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines. Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe says a shipment arriving on Friday from global-sharing scheme Covax

Germany has officially acknowledged that it committed genocide during its colonial-era occupation of Namibia, and announced a financial support gesture. German colonisers killed tens of thousands of Herero and Nama

Spry and gray-haired, many dressed in their Sunday best or colorful African prints — and all sporting masks — dozens of South Africans aged 60 and over gathered at a

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Thursday served notice that it would embark on a nationwide strike without notice if the Kaduna State Government remained adamant and recalcitrant or refused to

The Acting Inspector-General of Police (IG), Mr. Usman Alkali Baba, Thursday described the clamour for state police, which topped demands at zonal public hearings on constitution review held by the

The US says Abidemi Rufai, a senior special assistant to Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, governor of Ogun remains in custody at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York

The Nigerian government has released a second batch of names of travellers who reportedly violated the protocol for international passengers. According to the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 the

French President Emmanuel Macron, in a visit to Rwanda, has said France recognised its “responsibility” in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, asking for forgiveness for his country’s role but without offering

Thirty bodies have been pulled from a river where a boat carrying more than 150 passengers sank in northern Nigeria. Authorities in the West African Country said only 20 people