No fewer than 600 stranded Nigerians will be evacuated from Saudi Arabia next week, the federal government has said. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Chairman, Nigerians in the…
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Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal by one Ali Abacha, a brother to the late Head of State, Sani Abacha, to unfreeze accounts traced…
No fewer than one million Nigerians are to benefit from the Federal Government’s COVID-19 Cash Transfer Project which aims to lift the urban poor affected by…
Opposition parties in Ivory Coast have asked the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to postpone parliamentary elections. News central reports that the legislative elections are due to…
A court in Guinea has sentenced two critics of President Alpha Conde to a year in jail for inciting an insurrection, as rights groups fear a…
The current political transition period in Mali offers an opportunity to “break out of the vicious circle of political crises followed by coups d’etat,” the UN…
The use roadside bombs — or improvised explosive devices (IED) — is a common tactic used by the militants in the arid Sahel region.
Mali must quickly prepare its plan for elections to replace the transitional government put in place after the August coup, ECOWAS has said. An Ecowas delegation,…
The mediator of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for Mali, former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has arrived in Bamako at the head of…
Nigeria’s Ekiti State has imposed a curfew and banned all gatherings of more than 20 people due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) second wave. The state Commissioner…