A haul of heroin hidden inside packs of baby food has been intercepted at Lagos' main airport, according to police.
Three suspects have been arrested...
The message from Nigeria's medical council could not have been more cruel for a student, Moses Damilola Fehintola.
After being trapped by war in Ukraine...
Umaro Sissoco Embalo, Guinea-Bissau President has been unanimously elected Chairman of the Authority of Heads of States and Government of ECOWAS.
He takes over from...
Special Envoy of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to Guinea, Dr Mohamed Ibn Chambas, has communicated his intention to withdraw as...
The General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor E.A Adeboye, has said Christians don’t need guns for self-defence.
On Sunday, Adeboye clarified...
Police in Nigeria have rescued 77 people, including children, from a church where they were confined in the southwestern state of Ondo.
Some of them...
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said his country is willing to unconditionally resume grain exports to Africa and other parts of the world...
Internet access has been cut in Sudan ahead of nationwide protests on Thursday to press for civilian rule.
Internet monitoring organisation Netblocks reports that internet...
The authorities in Chad have said more than $20m (£16m) was allegedly embezzled from a state-owned hydrocarbons company.
Information Minister Abderaman Koulamallah made the accusation...
A Kenyan woman, who is reportedly an aspiring politician, has been arrested after allegedly pretending to be policewoman while appearing as a panellist on...
An 87-year-old man from Busia, Kenya has bought a new coffin for his "future" burial ceremony.
The man, identified as Aloise Otieng' Ng'ombe, is said...
Nigeria’s highest-ranking judicial officer Justice Tanko Muhammad has resigned from his position.
Multiple local reports say Mr Muhammad, Nigeria’s Chief Justice, resigned on the grounds...
President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced Ghana has set up a consortium for Covid-19 vaccines to be produced by German manufacturing giant, BioNTech.
This, he said...
Twenty-nine wedding guests abducted nearly two weeks ago in the north-western Nigerian state of Zamfara have been freed.
They were kidnapped by gunmen who ambushed...
The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which controls the northern Tigray region, has denied claims by the Ethiopian government that it was preventing aircraft...
Nigerian police have rescued a 16-year-old boy whose eyes were gouged out in the northern state of Bauchi.
In a statement, a police spokesperson, Ahmed...
Malawi’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) has arrested former police chief George Kainja two days after he was sacked
He has been charged in connection with a...
A Nigerian lawyer caused a stir at the Supreme Court today June 23, when he attended proceedings in the court in his traditional worshipper’s regalia.
According to...
A second Nigerian politician has been beheaded by abductors in the south-east of the country, the authorities say.
Police in Anambra state say the decapitated...
Malawi’s President Lazarus Chakwera has stripped his Vice-President Saulos Chilima of all his delegated powers after the latter was named in a $150m (£123m)...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called Africa "a hostage" of Russia's war during an address to the African Union (AU) on Monday.
Russia's invasion, and...
South Sudan’s Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation Manawa Peter Gatkuoth Gual has died in a hospital in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, South Sudan's...
