Four people are dead while several others sustained injuries when a gas tank exploded in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos state. The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, which manages emergency situations

A Nigerian professor and former chief executive of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS),  Usman Yusuf, has described the constitutional amendment process currently embarked on by the country’s legislature as

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed optimism that Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu will win Saturday’s governorship election in the south-western state of Nigeria. Buhari in a video message to party

Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the award of contracts for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the Port Harcourt – Maiduguri eastern narrow gauge railway at the cost of

Following the death of His Highness, Alhaji Shehu Idris (CFR), the Kaduna State Government has approved the appointment of Ahmed Nuhu Bamalli as the 19th Emir of Zazzau. The appointment

Ethiopian lawmakers have passed a resolution for the federal government to sever relations and contact with leaders of the northern Tigray region. The decision, announced on Tuesday by Ethiopia’s upper

Siemens delivered 3,000 personal masks to Sudan’s Ministry of Health last month to assist in the battle against Covid-19, the company’s latest humanitarian investment initiative aimed at improving living standards

A court in Kenya has found two men guilty of helping Islamist militants attack a shopping mall in 2013. Militants burst into the luxury Westgate shopping centre in Kenya’s capital,

Gambia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Momodou Tangara, has said that the federal government of Nigeria saved his country’s judiciary from collapse. Tangara disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja when he

The Nigerian government has ordered a comprehensive investigation into a report by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) that revealed N2.67bn (about $6.5m) school feeding funds

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has lifted wide-ranging sanctions imposed on Mali following the military coup on August 18. The move by Africa’s regional body comes following

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has indicated he will present the 2021 budget at a joint session of the National Assembly on Thursday, October 8, 2020. The Nigerian leader made his

Ethiopia’s civil aviation authority has banned all flights over a controversial mega dam being built on a tributary of the River Nile, for security reasons. Ethiopia sees the $4.8bn Grand

Ethiopia’s civil aviation authority has banned all flights over a controversial mega dam being built on a tributary of the River Nile, for security reasons. Ethiopia sees the $4.8bn Grand

The Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) has asked the Federal Government to call Chevron Nigeria Limited to order and halt moves to lay off thousands of Nigerian employees. In

Sudan’s transitional authorities and a rebel alliance have signed a crucial peace deal that aims to put an end to the country’s decades-long civil wars. Saturday’s official signing, which took

The Nigerian Senate President Ahmad Lawan has described the journalism profession in the country as a sinking ship and attributed its fall to series of unprofessional conducts of Journalists. Lawan

A lawmaker in Nigeria’s parliament Senator Smart Adeyemi has faulted the United States stance that the Gubernatorial elections conducted in Kogi and Bayelsa States in November 2019 were rigged. Adeyemi

Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana (SAN) has blamed the country’s organised labour leaders for truncating a planned nationwide strike over the increase in petrol prices and electricity

Nigeria’s inspector-general of police, Mohammed Adamu, has banned operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS), the Special Tactical Squad (STS) and Intelligence Response Team (IRT) from undertaking routine patrols