An investigation is underway in Cameroon into allegations of financial embezzlement of Covid-19 funds. President Paul Biya ordered the investigation on Thursday after campaign group Human Rights Watch raised concern

Kenya’s drugs authority has denied reports that a Kenyan has died from taking the AstraZeneca vaccine. The Pharmacy and Poisons Board’s deputy director Dr Peter Ikamati said the death of

Again gunmen have attacked another police station in southeastern Imo state with reports suggesting several suspects in custody were released. An ARISE Correspondent who visited the Mbieri Divisional Police Headquarters

Nigeria’s Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), on Thursday distanced himself from a suit at the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, querying the

The President of the World Bank Group, Mr. David Malpass, on Wednesday said the multilateral institution is focused on supporting the federal government’s bid to lift 100 million Nigerians out

Security has been beefed up in the South-east to forestall further attacks on police formations and correctional centres, THISDAY’s investigation has revealed. The security alert followed last Monday’s audacious assault

Former Head of State and Chairman of the National Peace Committee (NPC), Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd), Wednesday expressed concern over the proliferation of all calibres of weapons in the country,

The ongoing 20th National Sports Festival in Benin City may be halted abruptly on Thursday unless the Federal Government intervenes by releasing the funds it promised the host Edo State.

The Ivorian President, Alassane Ouattara says former leader Laurent Gbagbo and his right-hand man Charles Ble Goude are free to return to the country after they were definitively acquitted of

Nigeria’s acting Inspector-general of Police (IGP) Usman Alkali Baba, says efforts of the police in tackling crime and criminality in the country has not been good enough, promising to work

The growing calls for the removal and prosecution of Mr Danladi Umar as the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) continued unabated on Tuesday as the National Association

Nigeria’s Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo has decorated the newly appointed police boss Usman Baba with the rank of Inspector General of Police. Mr Osinbajo performed the ceremony on Wednesday

Somalia’s international partners including the UN, the US, Canada, the African Union and several European nations have called on leaders to compromise to allow elections to take place in the

Authorities in Kenya have exempted tax on a donation of HIV drugs that had been in the middle of a stalemate for three months causing a shortage in the drugs. The finance ministry

Authorities in the north-western Nigerian state of Kaduna say gunmen have shot dead at least eight people and injured a number of others in a series of attacks on villages.

Nigeria’s Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says agents of anarchy are weaponizing the frustration and discontent of the country’s young people for their own profit, calling on citizens to reject such people. According to the

The latest round of talks between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) have ended with no progress made. Delegations from the three countries met in

A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and former presidential candidate, Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, has said that cryptocurrency has become attractive to kidnappers and terrorists who

Judiciary workers on Tuesday made good their threat to embark on industrial action to press home their demand for the implementation of financial autonomy for the judiciary. Reports from states

Monday’s coordinated attacks on the Imo State Police Command headquarters and the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) facility in Owerri by gunmen claimed its first major casualty on Tuesday with President