Factional leader of the Boko Haram terrorist group, Abubakar Shekau, has reportedly released a new audio, faulting the death sentence a Sharia court in Kano state...
A 19-year-old Ugandan, Hillary Humphrey Kaweesa, is hoping to make history by unseating the incumbent President Yoweri Museveni in the upcoming presidential elections.
Mr Kaweesa has picked...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has advised African youth to come together and use their electoral power to kick out the older generation from all...
The Vice President of Liberia, Jewel Howard-Taylor, has been flown to Ghana for health treatment.
The government said she was sent to Ghana on Tuesday...
Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba, a renowned Kenyan Pan-Africanist, has listed African presidents would become Cabinet members in a supposed African government.
Professor Lumumba...
Ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo has responded to those who criticised his comment on the death of Senator Buruji Kashamu.
Mr Obasanjo had said that the late...
Pope Francis has confirmed reports for the first time that a particular Malawian Diocesan impregnated 30 nuns.
According to Pope Francis, priests and bishops in the...
A Nigerian Police Command has arrested a 65-year-old man, Ahmadu Garba, and two others identified as Abubakar Bala, 37, and Suleiman Ahmadu, for allegedly...
A musician in Nigeria's northern state of Kano has been sentenced to death by hanging for blaspheming against the Prophet Muhammad.
An upper Sharia court...
A musician in Nigeria's northern state of Kano has been sentenced to death by hanging for blaspheming against the Prophet Muhammad.
An upper Sharia court...
Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo underwent Covid-19 test at his residence in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
According to reports, he decided to take the test after receiving...
Two boys were burnt alive for allegedly stealing a mobile phone at Komarock Estate, Nairobi, Kenya.
According to reports, the teen boys were caught trying...
The Founder and General Superintendent of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophet T.B. Joshua, has described publications suggesting that he has prophesied about...
Gambian President Adama Barrow has declared a state of emergency and introduced nationwide night curfew for 21 days as coronavirus cases keep rising.
The president...
The price of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine has skyrocketed in Nigeria, according to the government's consumer protection body.There's been widespread interest in hydroxychloroquine as...
South Africa's Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has said the country's risk of a second wave of the coronavirus pandemic still "remains".He told a virtual...
Nigeria has recorded the highest one-day recovery from the deadly COVID-19 disease after over 11,000 patients reportedly recovered in a day.
This is based on...
In our series of letters from African journalists, Kenyan Joseph Warungu looks at the acts of generosity helping ordinary people through desperately trying times.
When...
South Africa’s grocery retailer, ShopRite, is leaving Nigeria, 15 years after it opened a shop in the West African country.
Shoprite opened its first store...
Nigeria's international woes have increased as Dubai withdraws visa application for the country.
Apart from being blacklisted from applying for jobs in some Dubai organisations...
A Kenyan nurse has died from Covid-19 days after giving birth for the first time while undergoing treatment for the disease in hospital.
Local media...
More than half a million coronavirus cases have been confirmed in South Africa, according to the country's health minister.
Zwelini Mkhize announced 10,107 new cases...
The Kenyan government has released the list of countries from which travellers will be exempt from going into quarantine once they arrive.
International flights are...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that easing of Covid-19 restrictions could lead to a resurgence and has asked African governments to strengthen...
