A variety of “festering” causes and effects surround crises around the world, Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, said on Tuesday, speaking on the first day...
Kenyan law professor and former director of the anti-corruption commission, PLO Lumumba was on Saturday refused entry to Zambia due to "security considerations", authorities...
Separatists in Cameroon’s restive English speaking regions staged a prison break leading to the escape of about 70 prisoners, the BBC reported on Wednesday.
The...
Pirates have kidnapped 12 crew members from a Swiss cargo vessel in Nigerian waters.
Massoel Shipping said its vessel, MV Glarus, was carrying wheat from...
Wife of Reggae Icon Ras Kimono, Efe Okedi is dead. Efe reportedly passed on on Sunday 23rd from an undisclosed ailment.
According to Leadership Newspaper,...
Nigerian musician, Davido has been spotted in a political campaign costume amidst the several Osun state rallies he is currently featuring in.
The attire which...
Pro-marijuana activists cheered in the public gallery and chanted “Weed are free now” when the Constitutional Court gave its landmark ruling.
In a unanimous ruling,...
A demonstration by elite sniffer dogs in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, on Monday went awry when the animals failed to detect illicit goods.
Kenya Revenue Authority's...
Two Bombardier Dash 8 Q300 aircraft formerly used by Topbrass Aviation Services Limited, a local operator, have been allegedly stolen in Lagos.
The airplanes (registration...
Kweku Adoboli, the former UBS trader convicted of fraud, has been given a temporary reprieve from deportation to Ghana, where he was born.
Adoboli was...
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Ahead of the Nigerian elections next year, a politician has been caught naked...
Rwanda has decided to immediately free Victoire Ingabire, an opposition leader jailed for 15 years, after President Paul Kagame exercised his power to grant...
The Rwandan cabinet has approved a presidential pardon of over 2,000 convicts in a move that will benefit two prominent persons currently serving jail...
No court conviction just a legislative debate and a deputy minister in Liberia was sentenced to two-days in jail for rude behaviour.
Deputy Information Minister...
The mortal remains of the late United Nations (UN) Secretary-General will be laid to rest today at the Military Cemetery in Accra.
The three-day state...
Tanzania's President John Magufuli has urged couples to keep reproducing, saying only "lazy people" opted for birth control, the local Citizen news site has...
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome of Christ Embassy has been accused by a member of his own church of staging miracle-healing sessions.
According to a report from...
A report into the levels of physical inactivity across the globe has found that Uganda is the world’s most active nation.
The study, published in the...
A Nigerian couple has been arrested in the US after their 15-year-old son reportedly died during a 40-day religious fast.
Kehinde Omosebi, 49, and Titilayo...
Kweku Adoboli, a former trader convicted of fraud in 2012, is facing deportation to Ghana, after being detained by police in Scotland.
He served four...
Three people have been killed in South Africa during violence on Wednesday targeting foreign-owned businesses in Soweto, police say.
Protests broke out after shopkeepers were...
Germany has handed back the human remains of indigenous people killed during a genocide in colonial Namibia more than 100 years ago.
A Namibian government...
Kenya’s Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu has been arrested at her offices in the Supreme Court in the capital, Nairobi over alleged corruption.
She has...
The Edo state police (Nigeria) command have apprehended a 23-year-old mother of two, Miracle Johnson, for selling her six-weeks-old baby and using proceeds from...
Namibia’s President Hage Geingob on Sunday urged citizens to participate in land expropriation talks, as he seeks to ease political and ethnic tensions over...
Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken the oath as Zimbabwe's president, after winning last month's bitterly contested election that marked the country's first vote since Robert Mugabe was...
