Nigeria’s central bank has limited weekly over-the-counter cash withdrawals by individuals and corporates to 100,000 naira ($225; £186) and 500,000 naira ($1,125; £928) respectively.
This...
Tourism operators in Indonesia are still trying to recover from the devastating impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now the country’s parliament has passed new...
It’s very rare for Nigerian presidential hopeful Bola Ahmed Tinubu to talk directly to the media.
At a recent much-publicised event in London, questions from...
Indonesian lawmakers unanimously passed a sweeping new criminal code on Tuesday that criminalizes sex outside marriage, as part of a tranche of changes that critics say threaten...
Doctors under the Uganda Medical Association (UMA) were seen kneeling before President Yoweri Museveni to beg that he contests for the country’s presidency in...
The Government of Ghana has announced a bilateral agreement with the British Government to send trained nurses to the United Kingdom (UK) in exchange...
Fourteen Johane Masowe churchgoers have been confirmed dead after they drowned in a river during a baptism ceremony on Saturday evening.
Thirty-three members of the...
Shortly after his presentation at the African Union - African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) forum in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, David Kwasi Agyeman, Adom FM...
Bandits have attacked a mosque in Maigamji village in Katsina State of Nigeria.
An eyewitness, Alhaji Lawal Maigamji, said the bandits stormed the mosque during...
Iran’s morality police, which is tasked with enforcing the country’s Islamic dress code, is being disbanded, the country’s attorney general says.
Mohammad Jafar Montazeri’s comments,...
A Georgia man assisted law enforcement in his arrest after he commented on the Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office’s Facebook page.
The sheriff’s department, located east...
Police have arrested a man and charged him with murder in connection with the fatal shooting of rapper Takeoff.
The 28-year-old Grammy-nominated musician was shot...
Armed men affiliated with Ethiopia’s rebel Oromo Liberation Army have been blamed for kidnapping more than a dozen staff working for the Dangote Cement...
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing a possible impeachment threat over the “Farmgate” scandal.
The president has been accused of covering up a $4m...
The Nigerian government has announced a policy aimed at promoting the teaching of primary school pupils in local languages rather than in English.
Education Minister...
A South African Secondary School deputy principal at Kgagatlou Secondary in Polokwane, Limpopo received deadly instant justice after getting caught bedding a student at...
A man based in Kenya is steadily garnering numbers on social media over his facial looks.
Looking like the doppelgänger of Nigerian singer Burna Boy,...
Namibia’s Deputy Prime Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is edging closer to becoming the country’s first female president.
The 70-year-old has just been elected as vice-president of...
Angola’s Attorney-General Helder Pitta Groz has confirmed that his country has issued an arrest warrant for former President Jose Eduardo dos Santos’ daughter, Isabel...
The Federal government has approved the commencement of a 14-day paternity leave for all federal civil servants.
The Head of the Civil Service of the...
The father of Ghanaian-American gospel musician, Britney Boateng, Ernest Boateng, has spoken out for the first time following the death of his daughter.
Speaking in...
A Harvard-trained Ghanaian-American plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, Dr Michael K. Obeng, has been awarded the United States President’s Volunteer Service Award by the...
