Governors in Nigeria’s southwestern states have ordered commanders of the region’s security network, codenamed Amotekun, to convoke a joint security meeting of all commanders with a view to commencing joint

A former Governor of Nigeria’s northwestern Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa, has called on politicians and political commentators across the country to pipe down on political issues that tend to heat

The Nigerian police says it has killed five hoodlums including one Joseph Nnachi, a high ranking commander and loyalist of Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of

Gunmen have killed at least 132 people in Burkina Faso’s volatile north, the government said, as the United Nations chief condemned “the heinous attack” and called on countries to step

Senegal could begin producing COVID-19 vaccines next year under an agreement with Belgian biotech group Univercells aimed at boosting Africa’s drug-manufacturing ambitions, a source involved in funding the project told

Popular Nigerian Christian preacher Temitope Balogun Joshua has died, his church said in a statement on Sunday morning. TB Joshua died on Saturday, June 5, a few days to his

Some diplomatic missions in the country have condemned the Nigerian government’s ban of Twitter, insisting that free expression and access to information are the pillars of democracy. A statement jointly

The Nigerian Presidency has defended its suspension of Twitter operations in the country and says it is not a knee-jerk reaction to the microblogging platform’s preposterous deletion of President Muhammadu

The United States Government has reacted to Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari’s indefinite suspension of Twitter operations in the country describing it as a poor message to investors and undermines citizens fundamental

The Coalition of Northern Groups in Nigeria is demanding that leaders in the region allow for a peaceful breakup of the country by invoking the relevant statutes on self-determination to allow

American microblogging and social networking service, Twitter says it’s working to restore access for all Nigerians who rely on social media site to communicate and connect with the world. The

The Nigerian government has ordered the prosecution of citizens who bypass the country’s firewall and continue the use of Twitter despite the ban in the country. The West African country’s

Editors in Nigeria have called on the federal government to immediately reconsider the suspension of operations of Twitter as the move projects the Nigerian government as a dictatorship. The editors under

Governor of Nigeria’s southwestern Oyo State, Seyi Makinde says the federal government’s decision to ban Twitter operations in the country will affect investor’s confidence and called on the Nigerian leader to

The United Nations humanitarian chief has warned that famine is imminent in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region as well as the country’s north and there is a risk that hundreds of

The latest mass abduction victims in northern Nigeria, 136 pupils kidnapped last Sunday from Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School in Tegina, Niger State, are all children from poor homes, paying paltry