No fewer than six French soldiers were injured during an operation against Islamist militants in Mali, reports said on Saturday. The militants struck on Friday morning…
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The Gambia has seized three tonnes of cocaine from a ship coming from Ecuador. In one of the largest busts in West Africa, authorities seized at…
Suspected pirates have reportedly killed two people during an attack on two passenger boats in Nigeria’s coastal waters. News Central gathered that the passengers were returning…
“Thirteen civilians died, two of them children aged four and five as well as six teenagers,” a regional police officer who chose to remain anonymous, told AFP by phone.
Guinea-Bissau’s Minister of Justice, Fernando Mendonça, has sacked Melancio Correia from his role as the Director of the National Interpol Office. Correia has, consequently, been replaced…
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouk, has disclosed that no fewer than two million Nigerians are living as…
Indian authorities have arrested a 48-year-old Nigerian man for allegedly duping a diamond broker from south Mumbai of Rs 1.16 crore (about $217,000/₦82.7 Million). Police said…
In his remarks, Commissioner of Police for Katsina State, Sanusi Buba, said the bandits themselves made several appeals for peace to reign in their domains.
The government stated that the long-awaited vaccines against the virus might not be arriving as soon as the people may have been expecting.
Faisal Shuaib, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NAPHDA) has encouraged Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari and other members of…