The embattled former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Olisa Metuh, was today (Monday) produced on a stretcher before the Federal...
The US has levied sanctions against people and businesses in Sierra Leone, Ghana and Lebanon over their alleged links to Hezbollah.
The six individuals and...
Senior Democrats have warned President Donald Trump not to use a controversial memo as a "pretext" to fire the special counsel investigating alleged Russian...
Three of Kenya's largest private TV channels remain off the air, despite an order by the country's High Court suspending a shutdown.
The government cut...
The 68-year-old son of Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro, Fidel Ángel Castro Díaz-Balart, has died in Havana after taking his own life, according to state...
Eleven people have been killed after a fire at a Japanese residential facility for people in financial difficulty.
TV footage on the country's public broadcaster...
First Lady Melania Trump broke with long-standing tradition when she arrived at her husband's State of the Union address alone.
Her office told reporters it...
A school district in Southern California says it's looking into allegations that a teacher told his history class that military service members are "the...
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to keep the detention centre open at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Trump’s decision, which was announced shortly before...
Kenyan authorities shut down TV stations to prevent live coverage of a swearing-in event by opposition leader Raila Odinga, who boycotted last year's disputed...
Liberia's President George Weah has called for the removal of a "racist" clause in the constitution which restricts citizenship to black people.
The clause was...
Kenya’s main opposition coalition the National Super Alliance (NASA) says it will press on with a planned inauguration banned by the authorities.
There is tension...
Six of the BBC’s leading male presenters have agreed to take pay cuts after revelations over equal salaries.
The BBC said Huw Edwards, Nicky Campbell,...
Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga has said he is ‘not afraid of sanctions’ ahead of his ‘swearing-in ceremony’ scheduled for Tuesday 30th January 2018.
Odinga...
President Buhari and former president Olusegun Obasanjo are both attending the 30th general summit of the African Union holding in Addis Ababa.
See more photos...
A 90-year-old grand mother, identified as Priscilla Sitienei, who hails from Eldoret, Uasin Gishu county, has not given up on education, as she’s enrolled...
The University of Zimbabwe has published former First Lady Grace Mugabe's PhD thesis after an anti-corruption watchdog said it was investigating whether the wife...
Three men in Zambia have been mistakenly admitted to a cholera centre after taking herbs which reportedly boosted "sex enhancing" qualities, but whose symptoms...
Bill Gates has warned that Donald Trump's "America First" position could damage the US' relationship with Africa.
" the balance of hard power versus soft...
Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has advised the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari against seeking re-election next year.
Mr Obasanjo supported Mr Buhari's election in 2015...
