Abidemi Rufai, who is a suspended senior special assistant to Ogun State governor in South-West Nigeria, arrested in May last year in the United State for wire fraud, has pleaded...
International rights group, the Human Rights Watch (HRW), on Tuesday, accused Russian troops of committing rights abuses, torture and killing of civilians in the Central African...
An unspecified number of Muslim worshippers were on Monday injured in a clash with Ethiopian police in Addis Ababa during prayers to mark the end of...
Following reports of eight miners trapped in a mine in Burkina Faso, the country’s government has launched a judicial investigation into a flood at the zinc...
President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, on Sunday, May 1 announced a 12% increase in the minimum wage to offset soaring living costs. The 12% increase raises...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was forced to abandon his Workers’ Day speech and whisked away by security officials in the northwestern city of Rustenburg after...
Nigeria’s anti-drug agency, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted travellers’ cheques in different foreign currencies with a total value of Two Hundred and Eighty-Seven...
Sudanese protesters who took to the streets of Khartoum on Saturday to rally against military rule and mark the third anniversary of the sit-in killing of...
Following the controversial conviction of the world famous ‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero, Paul Rusesabagina by a Rwandan court last month, his family has filed a $400 million...
After an explosion that killed about 60 people at a makeshift gold mine in a village in south-west Burkina Faso, in February, a new report from the gold-rich West...
Following the completion of a recent visit to Egypt, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced that its mission had...
A day after dismissing Choguel Maiga for criticising the government, Mali’s governing junta named its spokesperson, Abdoulaye Maiga, as Prime...
Brazilian meatpacker JBS says it has inked a memorandum of understanding with the Nigerian government for a $2.5 billion investment...
Morocco’s official media reports that Chinese President, Xi Jinping, visited Morocco briefly on Thursday. According to Morocco’s MAP, Crown Prince...
A survey conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has revealed that around 65% of Nigerian households, which is...
Ghana and The Gambia are in the process of launching free roaming services that will enhance a West African connectivity....
Leader of one of Zambia’s opposition parties, Advocates for People’s Prosperity (APP), Mwenye Musenge, has criticised the Patriotic Front (PF)...
Ghana and Leicester City winger, Abdul Fatawu, has been ruled out of the rest of the EPL season after suffering...
Police in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) say six people have been arrested over a break-in and vandalism at...
Simon Ekpa, a Nigerian separatist leader based abroad, has been placed under detention by the Päijät Häme District Court...