The Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine has said he is withdrawing his election petition case challenging the results of last month’s presidential election. Bobi Wine, whose real name is Robert

Tanzania’s president is finally acknowledging that his country has a coronavirus problem after claiming for months that the disease had been defeated by prayer. Populist President John Magufuli on Sunday

Fifty-three abducted persons were set free on Sunday by bandits operating in Niger State even as the outlaws held on to the 27 pupils of Government Science College, Kagara and

With the nomination of Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa as the Chairman-designate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), 850 police officers seconded to the anti-graft commission may go back to

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority has lifted the ban on Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. With this announcement, the aircraft can now operate in Nigeria’s airspace as the regulatory authority said

A former Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has been arrested by operatives of the Imo State police command for unsealing the Royal Spring Palm Hotels and Apartments. The Imo state government had sealed the

Sixty-eight civil society organisations (CSOs) in Nigeria have asked the country’s President Muhammadu Buhari to resign over his failure to fulfil his primary constitutional duty of ensuring the security and welfare of Nigerians.

Seven members of the electoral commission in the Niger Republic have been killed in a landmine explosion. The team’s car drove over an improvised explosive device in the Tillaberi region in

Polls have opened in Niger where more than 7 -million citizens began voting on Sunday in the second round of the presidential election. Mohamed Bazoum, an ally of incumbent President Mahamadou

Nigeria’s Senate President Ahmad Lawan has said the country’s Southwest governors should be blamed for the recent ethnic violence, which erupted in some states in the region and targeted the

No person, however highly placed he or she may be, is permitted to forcefully acquire land and settle on it by force and arms in any state in Nigeria, a

Popular Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmed Gumi, who last week met some of the bandits that kidnapped 42 people including 27 students of the Government Science Secondary School Kagara in Niger

Despite speculations, which went viral about possible negotiations to free the abducted students of Government Science College, Kagara, in Niger State, the 27 schoolboys, 15 members of staff of the

Prominent cleric and former Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, John Onaiyekan has warned that Nigeria will soon be overpowered by bandits if the government continues to dialogue with non-state actors. The

Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum and Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi and his Kaduna State counterpart Nasir El-Rufai have called for the immediate devolution of powers between the federal

Carine Kanimba, the daughter of Paul Rusesabagina, the hero of the movie, “Hotel Rwanda” has denounced the “unfair trial” her father received in Rwanda calling on Belgium to intervene and repatriate her father who is of

in Nigeria, Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, on Friday said citizens do not need the permission of his Ondo State counterpart, Rotimi Akeredolu, to live in the forests in the

New details have emerged about the case against Instagram influencer Ramon Abbas, who wowed the internet with pictures of his clothes, cars, money and lifestyle between 2012 and 2020. In