Burkina Faso has launched new biometric passports without the logo of West Africa's main political and economic bloc on their cover, further signalling its...
A daughter of the former South African President Jacob Zuma and the king of Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, have become engaged during a traditional ceremony...
The Edo State Police Command has said it has arrested a 19-year-old self-acclaimed native doctor over the death of his client.
The native doctor, who...
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has issued an emergency tender to secure mpox vaccines for crisis-hit countries in collaboration with the Gavi vaccine...
A Nigerian woman based in Canada, Amaka Sunnberger, is under probe for threatening to poison Nigerians of Yoruba and Benin extractions.
A representative of the...
A recent report has revealed that between July 2023 and June 2024, Nigerians paid N1.048 billion in ransom to kidnappers.
The report by SBM Intelligence...
An employee of the Nigeria Aviation Handling Company, Auwal Dankode, has been hailed for his integrity after returning $10,000 found in a plane.
The worker...
South African billionaire, Johann Rupert has overtaken Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote as Africa’s richest person, according to the latest data from the Bloomberg Billionaires...
In a bizarre and unsettling incident in Zimbabwe, a 58-year-old woman was arrested after allegedly using a live tortoise to threaten her Human Resources...
As record numbers of young Africans risk their lives trying to reach the Canary Islands, Spain’s Prime Minister begins crisis talks with Senegal, Mauritania...
Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has named a "troublesome" lion after one of the country's opposition leaders.
President Samia was visiting the Tanzania Wildlife Authority...
Doctors in Nigerian public hospitals have started a seven-day nationwide strike to demand the release of their colleague, Dr Ganiyat Popoola, who has been...
A recent Afrobarometer survey has unveiled alarming perceptions about the impact of climate change on agriculture across Africa.
According to Dr Edem Selormey, Director of...
South Africans are paying tributes to their “favourite teacher", William Smith, who has died aged 85.
The beloved maths and science teacher and innovator died...
Messaging app Telegram has said its CEO Pavel Durov, who was detained in France on Saturday, has "nothing to hide".
Mr Durov was arrested at an airport...
Former President John Dramani Mahama is in Lagos, Nigeria, as a special guest for the Nigerian Bar Association’s 64th Annual General Conference.
Mr Mahama is...
An anonymous whistleblower in Nigerian cyberspace, PIDOM Nigeria, has gone missing, and his social media accounts have been compromised, an exposé by Investigative Journalist,...
Following the invitation of the President of Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero, by the police on allegations of criminal conspiracy, terrorism financing, treasonable...
Mpox is "not the new Covid", because authorities clearly know how to control its spread, a leading World Health Organization expert has said.
Despite real...
A police commander in Tanzania's capital, Dodoma, has been removed from her post following controversial comments in which she linked an alleged gang-rape victim...
David Tweneboah Koduah, a senior university sports coach at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), will represent Ghana as an International Technical Official at...
At least 20 Nigerian university students were abducted by gunmen who ambushed their vehicles in the country’s north-central region, police said Friday.
The students were...
Sudan has been stricken by a cholera outbreak that has killed nearly two dozen people and sickened hundreds more in recent weeks, health authorities...
