A former National Chairman of Nigeria’s governing All Progressives Congress (APC) John Oyegun has said, individuals who stand against the restructuring of the country are making a “very tragic mistake”.

Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi has concluded a one-day state visit to Tanzania where bolstering bilateral cooperation and security between the two neighbouring countries were top of the agenda. President John

Facebook says it has shut dozens of accounts aligned to Uganda’s ruling party National Resistance Movement (NRM). The tech giant accused the accounts of seeking to manipulate public debate ahead

Sierra Leonean technologist Hafiz Alhassan Kanu, has developed a mobile messaging app called Supfrica aimed at connecting users across the continent. In an interview over the weekend with PanAfrican Daily TV, Alhassan

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Monday night give a national address about the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. The address comes two weeks after he announced tough

Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters says the country’s armed forces have checkmated the potency of Boko Haram terrorists in the North-eastern part of the country. Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Major-general John Enenche, stated this in an

Ugandans vote on Thursday in a presidential election pitting long-time leader Yoweri Museveni against ten candidates including opposition frontrunner Bobi Wine, a singer-turned-lawmaker whose star power has rattled the ruling

Professor Kingsley Moghalu has said there’s a lot of rent-seeking concerning the Nigerian Naira driven by a greed for power by the country’s highly influential and politically connected individuals and

A magistrate court in the nation’s capital Abuja has granted bail to Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters’ in the sum of N20 million ($52,459), a bail sum the publisher has said is

Troops of Operation Hadarin Daji at the weekend eliminated 50 armed bandits in Kaura Namoda Local Government Area of Zamfara State, the Nigerian military has said. The onslaught against the

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has emphasised the need for Nigeria to remain an indivisible entity despite the differences in religion, ethnicity, political affiliations, or other diversities among the citizenry. Osinbajo,

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune flew back to Germany on Sunday for treatment in hospital for complications in his foot resulting from a coronavirus infection, the presidency said. Tebboune, 75, had

The Nigerian Army Headquarters on Saturday approved the redeployment of over 1000 senior officers across military formations in the country. The affected officers include Major Generals, Brigadier-Generals, Colonels, Lieutenant Colonels,

Gambian authorities seized nearly three tonnes of cocaine from a shipment of industrial salt originating in Ecuador, a spokesman said on Friday, in one of the largest ever busts in

Gambian authorities seized nearly three tonnes of cocaine from a shipment of industrial salt originating in Ecuador, a spokesman said on Friday, in one of the largest ever busts in

A Nigerian court has dismissed a certificate forgery case against the Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki. The suit was filed at the federal high court in the nation’s capital Abuja