By Rachel Osazuwa Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, have set up mechanism that would review efforts to activate a standby force for counterterrorism operations, especially in areas infested by terrorist groups. This followed a resolution at the end of the 64th ...

By Ochogwu Sunday About 20,000 refugees who fled the Republic of Cameroon are presently seeking asylum in Taraba State following the crisis rocking the Nigeria North-Western and South-Western regions of the Central African country. The Cameroonians have been camping in five local government areas ...

By Chris Johnson The death toll from weeks of relentless rain and ensuing floods has nearly doubled in Kenya. Interior Minister Raymond Omollo announced on Tuesday that at least 120 lives have been lost, with nearly 90,000 households displaced and forced to seek refuge in 120 makeshift camps. ...

By Francis Ugwu Liberian President George Weah, on Friday, conceded defeat after provisional results from the week’s runoff vote indicated opposition party candidate Joseph Boakai was beating him by just over one percentage point. Election officials said that with 99.58 per cent of ballots ...

By Ochogwu Sunday The Federal Government, in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), evacuated 161 Nigerian migrants stranded in Libya on Tuesday. Ambassador Kabiru Musa, Chargé D’Affaires En Titre of the Nigerian Mission in Libya, stated in Abuja that the objective ...

By Gift Habib Guinea’s ex-dictator Moussa Dadis Camara was recaptured and returned to prison on Saturday. He was recaptured hours after an apparent jailbreak led by a heavily armed commando, the army and his lawyer said. “Captain Moussa Dadis Camara has been found safe and sound and taken back ...

Britain’s King Charles III was heading to Kenya on Monday, his first visit as monarch to a Commonwealth nation, where he faces widespread calls for an apology for abuses committed during colonial rule. “The King and Queen (Camilla) are on their way to Kenya for a four-day visit which will take in ...

The Federal Government has received 108 irregular Nigerian migrants stranded in Niger Republic. This is contained in a statement by Mr Alexander Oturu, Southwest Zonal Coordinator, National Commission For Refugees Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI) on Tuesday in Abuja. ...

The French army said Tuesday it had begun withdrawing its troops from Niger after being ordered out of the country by the leaders of a coup that ousted a pro-Paris president. The move kicks off a complex and sensitive process that Paris expects to be completed by the end of the year, drawing the ...

Liberia’s Incumbent President George Weah casts his vote at a polling station in Monrovia on October 10, 2023 during the presidential vote. – Liberians began voting Tuesday on whether to give football legend George Weah a second term as president, with peace among voters’ main concerns in a nation ...

By Ishola Oludare The United States Consul General in Nigeria, Will Stevens, said the growing trend of military takeover of government in Africa was because some leaders in the continent refused to relinquish power after their tenure in office. Stevens expressed concern that Africa is facing ...

No fewer than 90 schoolgirls in a Kenyan school have been reported ill after having difficulties walking, BBC reports Wednesday. Kenyan health authorities say the health crisis is currently under investigation as the students have been admitted to hospital. The female students from Eregi ...

Mali has said it “will not stand idly by” if foreign governments intervene in neighouring Niger, Bamako’s top diplomat warned the United Nations on Saturday, after both countries’ juntas joined a mutual defence pact. Rebel elite soldiers overthrew Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum on July 26 and ...

The death toll from Storm Daniel, an “extreme weather event,” that caused the Sunday Libya flooding stands at 6,000, CNN has reported. Saadeddin Wakil, the health ministry undersecretary of the Unity Government in Tripoli, one of two rival governments operating in the country, said, “The death ...

Agency Report Villagers wept for lost relatives in the rubble of their homes on Monday as the death toll from Morocco’s deadliest earthquake in more than six decades rose to almost 2,700 and rescuers raced against time to find survivors. Search teams from Spain, Britain and Qatar were joining ...

Using  heavy equipment and even their bare hands, rescuers in Morocco yesterday stepped up efforts to find survivors in flattened villages as the interior ministry said the powerful earthquake that hit the North African country over the weekend has killed at least 2,122 people, with 2,421 injured, ...

Nearly 300 people have died after a powerful earthquake rattled Morocco Friday night, according to a preliminary government count, as terrified residents of Marrakesh reported “unbearable” screams followed the 6.8-magnitude tremor. “According to a provisional report, the earthquake killed 296 ...

Gabonese General, Brice Oligui Nguema, who last week led a coup ending 55 years of rule by the Bongo dynasty, was sworn in on Monday as interim president, AFP journalists saw. Oligui, head of the elite Republican Guard, led officers in a coup on Wednesday against President Ali Bongo Ondimba, scion ...

The West African Elders Forum, WAEF, has urged African leaders to respect constitutions and put citizens’ welfare, peace, and security at the centre of governance. The Communications Officer of Goodluck Jonathan Foundation, Wealth Ominabo, in a statement, said the forum gave the advice during a ...

A video of ousted Gabon President Ali Bongo calling for his “friends” to speak up following a successful military coup in the oil-rich central African country has emerged. Bongo in the video asked his friends to “make noise” about the people who arrested him and his family. He said, “I’m sending ...

Lagos has emerged as the fifth best African city with high desirability by people to live, work, and invest, according to a report by Brand Finance City Index 2023. The report puts Lagos (Nigeria) at 56.7 per cent behind Cape Town (South Africa), Cairo (Egypt), Johannesburg (South Africa), and ...

The Federal government with the support of the International Organisation for Migration on Monday evacuated 139 Nigerian irregular migrants freed from detention centers across Libya. Amb. Kabiru Musa, Charge D’Affaires En Titre in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria, on Monday ...

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, said yesterday in Accra, Ghana, that it will not hesitate to invade Niger Republic, if all efforts to reverse the coup in the country fail. This came as the German government said it is in support of sanctions imposed on the military junta in ...

The newly-appointed Prime Minister by the military junta in Niger Republic, Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine, has said the regime would survive the sanctions imposed on the country by Heads of State and Government of Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS. This came as military generals in the ...

Despite opposition from eminent Nigerians and groups to the use of force against the coupists in Niger Republic, the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Heads of State and Government yesterday ordered immediate deployment of a standby force to restore constitutional order in the ...

Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government; Your Excellency, the President of the ECOWAS Commission; Your Excellency, President of the African Union Commission; Your Excellency, President of the UEMOA Commission; The Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations in ...

By Seun Opejobi The leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has warned the United States, US, President, Joe Biden against invading Niger Republic following the coup that ousted President Mohammed Bazoum. Ayodele warned that invading Niger Republic would amount to ...

Top diplomats from the United Nations, African Union and the Economic Community of West African States will Thursday (today) storm Abuja, the nation’s capital, to take major decisions at an Extraordinary Summit on the political development in the Niger Republic. The summit, which is expected to ...

By Ochogwu Sunday President of the Middle Belt Forum (MBF), Dr. Pogu Bitrus has described the planned removal of subsidy on education by the government as a very dangerous move which is capable of bringing setbacks to the country. He accused the government of violating the relevant ...

The World Bank has said it will no longer consider new loans to Uganda over the adoption of a law that proscribes same-sex conduct. The Ugandan government had earlier in the year passed a law against anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender practices in the country. The law includes life ...

The United States of America has warned the Niger junta that America may be pushed to be involved militarily if the country’s military rulers do not return to constitutional order. The US acting Deputy Secretary, Victoria Nuland, in a special briefing on Niger disclosed this via a teleconference ...

By Don Silas Niger’s junta on Tuesday rejected the latest diplomatic mission from African countries aimed at restoring constitutional order after a July 26 coup. NAN reports that the junta resisted pressure from the United States and the United Nations to come to the negotiating table. Heads of ...

Niger’s military rulers announced Sunday that they had closed the country’s airspace, warning that any attempt to violate it would meet with an “energetic and immediate response.” “Faced with the threat of intervention, which is becoming clearer through the preparation of neighbouring countries, ...

President Bola Tinubu has written the Nigerian Senate, intimating the proposed military action and other sanctions against the military officers who recently seized power in the Niger Republic by the Economic Community of  West  African  States, ECOWAS. The letter was read on the floor of the ...

The military junta in Niger Republic cut off ties with Nigeria, France, and other countries on Friday, after the peace talks delegates sent by the Economic Community of West Africa States failed. According to a report on Friday by Radio France International, the “delegation from the ECOWAS ...

By Ochogwu Sunday President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Thursday dispatched a delegation to the Republic of Niger with a mandate to resolve the current political impasse occasioned by the recent coup in the country. Tinubu, the Chairman of the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS), charged ...

By Racheal Ayodele The Nigerian Government has cut off power supplies to Niger Republic. This is coming days after a military junta ousted Niger’s elected president, Mohamed Bazoum. Niger’s electricity company, Nigelec, noted on Wednesday that the development followed an emergency meeting by the ...

By Adeyinka Adedipe The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons says information at its disposal indicates that over 2,000 trafficked Nigerian girls are currently stranded in Mali. The Benin Zone Commander, NAPTIP, Nduka Nwanwene, who disclosed this, added that the agency ...

The Economic Commission of West African States Authority of Heads of State and Government, on Sunday, in Abuja, issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Niger Republic military to release and reinstate President Mohammed Bazoum as the legitimate Head of State and government of the landlocked state. ...

Members of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, on Sunday, issued a seven-day ultimatum to the Nigerien military to restore constitutional order and reinstate ousted President Muhammed Bazoum into office. This followed an extraordinary meeting of leaders of ECOWAS member-states ...

By Williams Anuku Leaders making up the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Authority of Heads of State and Government are presently converging on Abuja, the nation’s capital, for an emergency meeting expected to deliberate on the next line of action regarding the coup in the ...

Nigeria, the acclaimed giant of Africa, was conspicuously absent yesterday, as African leaders gathered in St Petersburg, Russia, to discuss ways Nuclear power can help solve the continent’s perennial energy crisis. However, representatives of other countries present, unanimously agreed that the ...

By Dayo Oyewo President Vladimir Putin has pledged to deepen relations with African countries across several spheres, promising a free supply of grains to the continent to tackle food insecurity. Putin made this known on Monday in a statement themed “Russia and Africa: Joining Efforts for Peace, ...

By Sunny Green Itodo Famous Nigerian investigative journalist, David Hundeyin, has been detained at Harare Airport, in Zimbabwe. The controversial journalist announced this via his verified Twitter handle on Wednesday night. He said the officials detained him for entering the country without a ...

President Bola Tinubu, on Saturday, in Nairobi, Kenya, called on African leaders to respect democracy, the rule of law and ensure political stability. In his statement at a high-level event organised by the United Nations Development Programme on the margins of the Fifth Mid-Year African Union ...

President Bola Tinubu was elected Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States Authority of the Heads of State and Government over the weekend. Tinubu, who attended the forum of West African leaders for the first time at the 63rd Ordinary Session was formally elected as the Chairman ...

By Williams Anuku President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has emerged as the new Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). He was elected chair at the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government, taking place in Guinea-Bissau. An elated Tinubu ...

By Don Silas Cameroon Federation President, Samuel Eto’o could be facing prison time for allegedly failing to pay her daughter Erika de Rosario a monthly allowance of €1,400 for five years. Erika was born to Eto’o’s former partner Adileusa de Rosario. Eto’o dated De Rosario during his time as a ...

Air raids and anti-aircraft fire struck Sudan’s capital Khartoum according to residents, despite warring parties declaring truces for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha on Wednesday. The war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that began in ...

Olubara of Ibara Kingdom, Abeokuta, Oba Jacob Olufemi Omolade, recently, celebrated his 90th birthday. Omolade, who is a devout Christian, in this interview, speaks about his journey in life. He also bares his mind on how he wants to be buried when he joins his ancestors. Excerpts: You just ...