Soaring food prices and economic hardship could sway this week’s tightly-contested Zambian presidential vote in favour of the opposition, AFP news agency is reporting. President Edgar Lungu, who is vying

Reports suggest no fewer than 12 people have been killed in an attack on a health centre in the north-eastern Afar region of Ethiopia, where fighting between Tigrayan rebels and

Leader of Liberian pressure and advocacy group called the Economic Freedom Fighters of Liberia, Emmanuel Gonquoi, plus two others have been arrested, handcuffed and sent to the Monrovia Central Prison.

Nigeria’s Federal Government has summoned the Ambassador of Indonesia to Nigeria, Usra Hendra Harahap, over the manhandling and arrest of a Nigerian Diplomatic Agent in Jakarta. A video in circulation

The Jacob Zuma Foundation says Tuesday’s planned hearing relating to the corruption trial of former South African President Jacob Zuma is set to be postponed. Their stance was stated in

At least 12 soldiers were killed in an attack in northwestern Burkina Faso on Sunday and seven others are missing, SABC reports quoting security sources. SABC says there has been

Sudan has recalled its ambassador to neighbouring Ethiopia, frustrated by the stance of Ethiopian officials whom it said were refusing Khartoum’s offer to mediate in the ongoing conflict in Tigray.

With exactly 559 days to the 2023 presidential election, the search for a new leader for Africa’s most populous country and largest economy – Nigeria – has begun. The Independent

Security cooperation between the United States and Nigeria has neither been halted nor frozen by the recent suspension of weapons sale to Nigeria by the US Congress. US Consul General

Authorities in Nigeria’s North-Central Niger State have confirmed the kidnap of the Commissioner for Information, Mohammed Sani Idris. According to Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mary Noel-Berje, the commissioner

After months of a hard fought battle with pancreatic cancer at a London hospital, billionaire businessman and Chairman of Ocean Marine Solutions Limited, Captain Idahosa Okunbo,has passed on. He was

Four notorious bandits have been killed by security forces in the ongoing operations against bandits in Kaduna state. Samuel Aruwan, the Kaduna state commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs,

Business magnate, Captain Idahosa Wells Okunbo, is dead. He died of pancreatic cancer in London Sunday morning, according go THISDAY. He was aged 63. THISDAY gathered that he was diagnosed

Nigeria will begin administering the second batch of COVID-19 vaccines from August 10, the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 said on Saturday. The Director of Press, PSC on COVID-19,

Ruth Pagu, one of the girls abducted by Boko Haram at a secondary school in Chibok seven years ago on Saturday reunited with her parents in company of the two

The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), Middle Belt Forum (MBF), and Afenifere have reacted to the comment by a former Nigeria military president, General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd), that the next President

Eighty two of the 94 students abducted by bandits at the Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri, Kebbi State on June 17 are spending their 52nd day today with the kidnappers

The Nigerian Army on Friday said it had reinvigorated its operations and strengthened them to enable the troops take the war to the enclaves of insurgents, bandits and other criminals

President Adama Barrow of Gambia has commended Nigeria’s commitment to the war against illicit drug trafficking and abuse, even as he called for more collaboration among anti-drug law enforcement agencies