Governors of Nigeria’s thirty-six states have appealed to striking judiciary workers to, in the interest of the country, call off their nationwide industrial action which has lasted ten days, promising

Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has said there are very strong indications that some Nigerian government officials are conniving with kidnappers to perpetuate their dastardly act. Mr Ortom said desperate politicians had brought into the

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived the country after two weeks of medical vacation in the United Kingdom. He arrived via the Nnamdi Azikiwe international airport in the nation’s capital

The Nigerian Army says reports that Boko Haram terrorists have overran and in control of Damasak, a town in northeastern Borno state are blatant misinformation. The army stated this in

Many Africans who have received their first Covid-19 vaccine do not know when they will get a second shot because deliveries are delayed, the continent’s top public health official has

Authorities in Malawi say they will destroy more than 16,000 Covid-19 vaccines that have reached their expiry date. The country’s health minister was quoted by the AFP news agency as

An increase in coronavirus cases has forced authorities in Madagascar to postpone the reopening of schools previously planned for Monday next week. The country’s cabinet said schools would remain closed

The recently appointed police chief in Nigeria Alkali Baba has ordered the “immediate disbandment” of the IGP Monitoring Satellite Offices in Lagos and Port Harcourt following complaints of harassment and

Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has accused Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed of playing to the gallery following her denial that the federal government printed

Some parents of 112 Chibok girls still in Boko Haram’s captivity since they were abducted on April 14, 2014, recounted their ordeal of living without their children in the last

Nigeria’s Senate Committee on Public Accounts has summoned the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, and the Accountant-General of the Federation (AGF), Mr. Ahmed Idris, over

Senior lawyers in Nigeria on Wednesday called on the federal government to remit allocations due to state judiciaries from the Federation Account directly to them as part of measures to

A former South African President Jacob Zuma has rejected as “a sham” a request by the country’s top court to suggest what punishment he should face if found guilty of

Junior doctors in Sierra Leone have gone on strike over an alleged assault on one of their colleagues working at the country’s main referral hospital. It follows a strike by

The Nigerian Government has denied claims by the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki that N60 billion ($157.4 million) was printed in March to support allocation to states. The country’s minister

Seven years after 276 schoolgirls were abducted in Chibok, Borno state, Amnesty International says the Nigerian government has failed to protect schoolchildren. On April 14, 2014, Boko Haram insurgents kidnapped 276 girls from the Government Girls

Former South African president Jacob Zuma has up to Wednesday to suggest the penalty the country’s highest court should impose if he were to be found guilty of contempt. The

No less than 20 children have died after their classrooms caught in fire in Niger’s capital Niamey. The cause of the fire in the school, located in the Pays Bas

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Tuesday kicked against a bill seeking to prohibit and prevent religious discrimination against adherents and practitioners of different faiths and beliefs. CAN, which