The Controller General for Correctional Services, Haliru Nababa, has said 114 escapees from the Sunday night Kabba prison attack, Kogi State, have been recaptured in total. The centre, which had

President Muhammadu Buhari has formally sent a letter to the Nigerian Senate seeking its consideration and approval of $4.179 billion ($4.054 billion and $125 million) as well as £710 million

The National Association of Seadogs otherwise known as the Pyrates Confraternity, has blamed the attacks on military facilities in the country on President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government’s decision to pamper

French Defence Minister Florence Parly has warned Mali against a deal with Russian private security group Wagner amid claims the country’s military government is close to hiring 1,000 mercenaries. Two

Six Nigerians have been named by the United Arab Emirates as financiers of terrorism including Boko Haram and other criminal activities. According to Agency Report, the decision was made when

Revocant Karemangingo, a Rwandan businessman has been shot dead in Matola municipality, a few kilometres outside the Mozambican capital, Maputo. Mr Karemangingo was shot about 50m from his residence in

The federal government has projected that it will receive about 55 million doses of vaccines by April 2022 to ensure that more Nigerians are vaccinated against the dreaded COVID-19. The

Security operatives on Monday recaptured about 99 inmates out of the 294 that escaped from the Kabba Correctional Centre in Kogi State, after some gunmen attacked the facility at about

Officials in Nigeria’s Kogi State say many of the inmates who escaped during an attack on a facility have been re-arrested. Kingsley Fanwo, the State Commissioner for Information said security agencies were working

South Africa has announced plans to introduce a vaccine passport amid widespread mistrust of the Covid-19 vaccine in the continent’s most affected country. President Cyril Ramaphosa made the announcement in a televised

DR Congo’s President Felix Tshisekedi has taken a jab of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine months after turning down an AstraZeneca shot over fears that it wasn’t safe. DR Congo politicians

Dozens of school children who were kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria’s northwest Zamfara state nearly two weeks ago have been freed. They were kidnapped from the Government Day Secondary School, Kaya, in Maradun Local

A BBC Panorama investigation has found evidence that suggests one of Britain’s biggest companies paid a bribe to the former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe. Documents show British American Tobacco (BAT)

The Chairman of Kaduna State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Joseph Hayab, has accused the government for allegedly abandoning the remaining 31 abducted students of the

Former Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has advised the National Assembly not to legislate on the collection of the Value Added Tax (VAT) and Stamp Duties, which

There is a looming danger that the federal and state governments might experience a steep drop in revenue accruing from the Value Added Tax (VAT) as some members of the

Contrary to insinuations doing the rounds, Nigeria’s Presidency on Sunday, declared that the visit by President Muhammadu Buhari to Imo State was a pleasant experience as he was overwhelmed by

Tunisia’s President Kais Saied has indicated plans to change the country’s constitution, seven weeks after he seized power in moves his opponents called a coup. The comments on Saturday represented

Felix Tshisekedi, the president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has called for a review of mining contracts signed with China in 2008 by his predecessor, saying he