US Sends Six A-29 Tucano Fighter Jets to Fight Insurgency in Nigeria
Nigeria has received the first six military aircraft it bought from the United States, which are expected to boost its efforts in tackling violence by...
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Yoruba Nation Activist Sunday Igboho Arrested In Cotonou
Nigeria’s Yoruba Nation activist leader Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has been arrested in neighboring Benin, weeks after he was declared wanted for...
Nigeria Expects Nearly 8 Million COVID-19 Vaccines
Nigeria expects to receive nearly 8 million additional doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of August, including from a U.S. government donation, the head...
Ethiopia PM Abiy Ahmed Wins Delayed Election
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has won the country’s delayed elections with an overwhelming majority, the election board said. The board said Mr Abiy’s Prosperity...
High Court Clears Nigeria’s Ex-Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun of Certificate Forgery
The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court, on Wednesday, cleared the former Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun of the controversy that trailed her...
Haitian President Assassinated At Home in ‘Barbaric Act’
Haitian President Jovenel Moise was shot dead by unidentified attackers in his private residence overnight in an “inhuman and barbaric act” and his wife was...
British Parliament to Debate Nnamdi Kanu’s Arrest, Repatriation to Nigeria
The British Parliament will begin a debate on the arrest and subsequent repatriation of the leader of Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, to...
Nationwide Blackout Looms in Nigeria as Electricity Workers Set To Resume Strike
This is because of a looming nationwide strike to be embarked on by electricity workers under the aegis of the National Union of Electricity Employees...
150 Students Missing After Gunmen Raid Nigerian School
About 140 students are missing after armed men raided a boarding school in Nigeria’s Kaduna state on Monday, and police said they were in hot...
Bill Cosby Released From Prison After Conviction Overturned
A US court overturned comedian Bill Cosby‘s conviction for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman 15 years ago on Wednesday, allowing his release from prison....