Niger has begun counting of Sunday votes from an election that is expected to lead to the West African nation’s first transfer of power between two democratically elected presidents. Reports suggest the voting

The Emmanuel Chapel, Methodist Church, Lagos Nigeria will on Wednesday host a talk series that will feature Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal as speaker and aims at calling on citizens

The Federal Government has knocked the Bishop of Sokoto Diocese of the Catholic Church, Rt. Rev. Hassan Matthew Kukah, for stoking the embers of hatred, sectarian strife and national disunity

Libya’s rival leaders kicked off a UN-brokered prisoner exchange, United Nations and Libyan officials said Saturday, which was part of a preliminary cease-fire agreement between the warring Libyan groups. The

Three United Nations peacekeepers have been killed in Central African Republic, as the government and its allies tried to fend off a rebel offensive ahead of Sunday’s presidential and legislative

Ethiopia will hold a parliamentary election on June 5 next year, as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed tries to quell outbreaks of deadly political and ethnic violence in several regions. Voter

Matron Annamarie Odendaal has cancelled all staff holiday on the Covid-19 ward at the private Arwyp Medical Centre in Johannesburg as a second wave of the coronavirus threatens to overwhelm

Mali’s opposition leader Soumaila Cisse, considered a leading contender in 2022 elections, has died in France after contracting coronavirus.  The 71-year-old died two months after his release from lengthy captivity by

Reports suggest six people have died and a church burnt in Chibok local government area of Borno state after suspected Boko Haram insurgents attacked the EYN (Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria)

Governors of the six states in Nigeria’s Southwest have endorsed the recommendation of a committee they set up for the establishment of the Southwest Development Commission (SWDC). The Technical Committee,

Authorities in Niger say seven soldiers and four suspected jihadists were killed Monday in fighting in the country’s Tillabéri region, in a grip of recurrent jihadist attacks, less than a week

No less than 20 African migrants have died after their makeshift boat sank off Tunisia on Thursday while trying to cross the Mediterranean to the Italian island of Lampedusa. Five people

Morocco has commenced the implementation of the three weeks night curfew to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease. The curfew that begins at 9 pm and ends at 6

Reports suggest two demonstrators were killed on Wednesday in a protest outside the police headquarters in the Zambian capital Lusaka, where opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema was being questioned. AFP reports that riot police

There are doubts over the Nigerian government’s commitment to “faithfully implement” the agreement it recently reached with the country’s university lecturers. The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) an umbrella

Nigeria’s federal government has introduced new security apparatus to further secure the nation’s busiest gateway, the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. The government in response to reports of incessant

The Nigerian presidency has suggested that a smear campaign that aims to portray the country’s leader Muhammadu Buhari as not being in charge of the country is in the works,

More than 100 people were killed by unknown gunmen in Ethiopia’s western region of Benishangul-Gumuz, the latest deadly violence in the area. Witnesses said the attack occurred early on Wednesday

The United Nations says it has reclaimed a town in the Central African Republic from rebels who seized it on Tuesday. “The situation in Bambari is under control,” Abdoulaziz Fall, spokesman for the UN

The African Tobacco Control Alliance (ATCA) has called for a strong tobacco control law to protect citizens of Botswana from the devastating effects of tobacco following the frightening rise in the number of