Nigeria’s Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami says incidents of terror such as banditry and kidnapping in the country have significantly reduced owing to the enforcement of a

Nigeria’s Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami has denied ever writing a memo to President Muhammadu Buhari asking him to suspend the use of the

Uganda’s Transport Minister General Katumba Wamala has been discharged from hospital after undergoing surgery to remove a bullet in his arm. The minister was injured after gunmen riding on motorcycles

Nigeria’s federal government on Wednesday accused the social media giant, Twitter, of double standards in its treatment of issues affecting Nigeria. It warned that it would not allow the microblogging

The Nigerian government has accused Twitter, an American microblogging and social networking service of double standards on issues concerning the country’s domestic issues. Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed also

Ugandan police have released street camera footage that shows two men believed to be behind Tuesday’s assassination attempt on the country’s transport minister General Katumba Wamala. While the minister was

Authorities in Kenya have arrested a Ghanaian national who is alleged to have fraudulently obtained $83,000 from a woman in a romance scam. The police’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI)

Unknown gunmen have shot and killed Christopher Dega, a senior special assistant to the Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom on Security matters. Mr Dega, a retired assistant inspector-general of

Nigeria’s federal government has expressed hope that the country may receive more consignments of Covax-brokered Covid-19 vaccines between July and September. Executive Director of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency

Rotimi Akeredolu, Governor of Nigeria’s southwestern Ondo state is calling for a unicameral legislature for the country and the immediate scrapping of the senate. The country’s legislature is currently carrying

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari says the rising insecurity in the country is now mentioned all over the world stating that sponsors and orchestrators of violence wants his administration to fail.

More than 90% of people in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray are in need of emergency food aid, the United Nations food agency has announced. “A total of 5.2 million

Unidentified gunmen in Uganda have shot and injured Transport Minister General Katumba Wamala near his home in the capital Kampala. Eyewitnesses say the gunmen were riding on a motorcycle. General Wamala

France is calling for strict adherence to Mali’s transition timetable by military authorities and reiterated France’s condemnation of the coup in the country. The French foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian tweeted that

Three states in Nigeria’s northeast, the epicentre of insurgency in the country, Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, have been ranked as the most dangerous states in the country to travel to.

The leadership of major socio-cultural groups from Southern and Middle Belt part of Nigeria on Monday charted a new path for the emergence of a new constitution for Nigeria. Their

Nigeria’s five southeast states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo, were shut down on Monday following the residents’ compliance with the sit-at-home order by seperatist group, the Indigenous People

Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari, has approved the appointment of Ambassador Babagana Kingibe, as his Special Envoy with Cabinet Rank status to Chad and the Lake Chad Basin Region. Secretary to

The number of people killed in two attacks in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to at least 50. They are thought to have been carried