As the one-week ultimatum issued by the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) to the federal government to inaugurate the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) expired weekend, some

Ethiopians are voting in key elections amid rising tensions and a bloody conflict in the northern Tigray region. This pandemic-delayed poll is Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s first electoral test since

Nigeria’s pro-democracy group, National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) has called for the cancellation of further elections in the country under the 1999 Constitution. The group said democratic elections in Nigeria should

President Muhammadu Buhari has called on West African leaders to exert more pressure on the military leadership in Mali to ensure that the transition process in the country is not

Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa, has declared that the commission, under his leadership, would not hand over cases of interest to any state

Three days after the violent kidnap of more than 80 students, a majority of them girls, and five teachers at the Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri, Kebbi State, in northwest

After some consideration, Shimelis Yohannes* decided to register to vote in Ethiopia’s delayed general elections due to be held on Monday. “I took a vote card because it’s better than

An Ebola outbreak which started in Guinea in February, infecting 16 people and killing 12, has been declared over, the West African country’s health ministry and the World Health Organization

The Lagos state government says a total of five fatalities were recorded when a gas tanker exploded in the Ikeja area of the southwest Nigerian state. The Lagos state Emergency

Angry youth on Saturday, blocked the Kaduna- Abuja I’m Nigeria, following the killing of four people and the abduction of 49 others in a weeklong attack by rampaging bandits in

Malawi’s former ruling party turned opposition wants last year’s election nullified saying it was presided over by an electoral management body that was illegally constituted. The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)

South African authorities are “consolidating information” about the ongoing saga about a woman in Pretoria who reportedly gave birth to ten babies, a South African website is reporting. No media organisation has

The Nigeria police have launched a manhunt for bandits who on Thursday invaded Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri, in Kebbi State and kidnapped 40 pupils as well as some teachers.

The Nigerian Press Organisation (NPO), comprising the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN), the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) and the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), on Thursday called on

Zambia’s former president, Kenneth Kaunda, the father of Zambia’s independence who led the country for 27 years has died at the age of 97. He had been admitted to the

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari says his administration in the past six years has provided the country’s armed forces a firm strategy and clear sense of direction to safeguard the sovereignty

President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to visit on insurgents and bandits the ferocity of the nation’s firepower and the weight of the resolve to allow for peace and security. Addressing