In a significant development, former Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma has been charged with four counts of treason in connection with an attempted coup that...
Burundi’s President, Evariste Ndayishimiye, unleashed a vehement anti-gay tirade on Friday which left the lives of gay couples in great danger. The President called for the...
A viral video circulating on X, formerly known as Twitter, has sparked widespread outrage as it captures the dramatic humiliation of the Democratic Republic of Congo...
The choice of George Weah, a leader who lost a second-term election, as The Guardian’s 2023 ‘Man of The Year’ in a region with giants like...
The Igwe of Nnewi, HRH Igwe Dr. K.O.N. Orizu III, has extolled the giant strides of the town, saying that it proudly developed without Government intervention....
African footballers have been making waves in the English premiership football for decades, ever since Peter Ndlovu became the first African player to feature in the...
Godfrey George explores the journeys of Nigerians in the Diaspora celebrating their first Christmas abroad, revealing stories of perseverance, dreams, and the challenges they face away...
As reported by a Ghanaian media platform “Modern Ghana”, a distinguished Ghanaian scholar and senior lecturer in the accounting and finance department at the University of...
The last French troops withdrew from Niger on Friday, in the latest blow to more than a decade of French anti-jihadist operations in west Africa’s Sahel...
The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) has rejected the approval of Pope Francis for Catholic clerics to bless gay marriages or gay unions or divorcees....
Isabel dos Santos, Africa’s first female billionaire, has had £580m of assets frozen by the UK high court. Dos Santos, the former president of Angola’s self-exiled...
Forty-four million people are registered to vote in the concurrent presidential, parliamentary, provincial and municipal elections on Wednesday in the central Africa nation. On the eve...
In Cameroon’s rural north, a career in science is a rarity for most women. Two young women have bucked the trend, winning a prestigious science award...
**African leaders including Rwanda’s Paul Kagame, Ghana’s Nana Akuffo Adod and the African Union chiarperson Moussa Faki Mahamat attended Monday (Dec. 18) the inauguration of the...
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has swept to a third, six-year term as Egypt’s president, winning 89.6% of votes in an election in which he faced no serious...
There was a tragic incident in Guinea’s capital Conakry on Monday, December 18, 2023, when a blast occurred at an oil terminal near the city center,...
Nigeria’s Minister of Labour and Employment, Mr. Simon Lalong, has resigned from his position in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s cabinet. Mr. Lalong, a lawyer and two-term...
Ghana has commenced cultivation and production of cannabis (also known as ganja, marijuana, weed, pot or dope) for health and industrial purposes. Ghana had approved cannabis...
Former South African president Jacob Zuma has announced his disassociation from the African National Congress (ANC) and revealed plans to establish a new political entity named...
Around 61 migrants were missing and presumed dead after their boat sank off Libya’s coast, the International Organisation for Migration said Saturday, in the latest migrant...
Black history has been pushed into the margins of mainstream thought. We should put Black History Month (BHM) into a broad historical context to remind ourselves...
American oil firm, Barker Hughes, has expressed interest in investing in refineries in the country, as the federal government intensifies effort to end petroleum products importation.Nigeria, a...
The foreign ministers of military-ruled Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger on Friday recommended creating a confederation as part of a long-term goal of uniting the West...
President Bola Tinubu has signed an agreement with Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany, to improve Nigeria’s grid capacity and improve electricity supply in the country. The...
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) says it will freeze accounts without a Bank Verification Number (BVN) or National Identification Number (NIN) from April 2024. This...
