The International Maritime Bureau (IMB) says kidnappings in West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea have risen significantly and now account for almost 95% of global kidnappings at…
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Armed thugs on Wednesday attacked #EndSARS protesters at the Berger area of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. The thugs, who invaded the protest venue at Berger junction…
Hakeem Odumosu, the Commissioner of Police for Lagos State, Nigeria’s commercial capital, today met with the Area Commanders, and Heads of security department over the ongoing…
President Donald Trump has informed his top advisers that he wants to withdraw US troops from Somalia, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday. Citing people familiar with the…
A court in France on Wednesday fined a Congolese activist €1,000 for snatching an African artefact from a French museum in June. Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza and…
African Alliance Insurance wants to raise more capital and boost its recapitalisation plan with divestment. The company’s board has planned the divestment and will inform shareholders…
The move comes just after the same measures were recently taken to also hold the planned privatization of Ethiopian Shipping and Logistics Service Enterprise.
Following the disbandment of a rogue police unit in Nigeria, the West African country’s Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has created a new department to…
No fewer than 25 people, including 13 soldiers, have been killed in multiple attacks in central Mali. The jihadist burned down an army base and ambushed…
One of Nigeria’s foremost poet and critic of the West African country, John Pepper Clark, is dead. Clark, whose poem – Casualties – illustrate the horrendous…