At least 25 people have died in a “terrorist attack” on a school in western Uganda, the country’s police spokesman said Saturday. “So far 25 bodies have been recovered from the school and transferred to Bwera Hospital”, Fred Enanga said, referring to a town near the border with the Democratic ...

By Maina Maina A Nigerian Airforce female Master Warrant Officer George, serving at 651 Base Services Group, was found dead on Sunday. Sources revealed that the Air Force personnel was found unresponsive at her residence at Block T5 Flat 8 in Sam Ethnan Air Force Base Ikeja, Lagos, after she ...

By Ogaga Ariemu Nigeria has lost its place as Africa’s crude oil producer to Angola following a decline in production. This was revealed by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, in its April 2023 Monthly Oil market report. OPEC said its 13 member countries’ crude oil ...

The Himba tribe often called the Ovahimba are indigenous people with an estimated population of about 20,000 to 50,000 in northern Namibia. Sex, for the Himbia tribe, is offered as a show of warm welcome and hospitality. In the process, the man must beg the woman to remove her ornaments one by one ...

Owu Waterfall is a waterfall located in Owa Kajola in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State, Nigeria. It's the highest waterfall in West Africa . It's the highest waterfall in West Africa measuring 120m above the water level and cascades 330 feet down an escarpment, with rocky out crops ...

By Francis Ugwu A 29-year-old woman, Hanaa, reportedly killed her five-year-old son, Youssef, with a machete at their home in Egypt before boiling and eating parts of his head. The woman has been arrested by the police after her son’s uncle discovered the ...

The Ooni of Ife, His Imperial Majesty Oba Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II, has called on Africans to begin writing the history of their race and people to correct erroneous impressions and distortions created by foreign writers. According to the monarch, this step is necessary to end the activities of ...

The House of Representatives has made an appeal to the Central Criminal Court and the government of the UK to show mercy in the sentencing of former deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife, Mrs. Beatrice Ekweremadu, and Dr. Obinna Obeta, who have been found guilty of organ ...

By Ogaga Ariemu After Ten days of fighting in Sudan, the United States said warring factions had brokered a three-day ceasefire which would be effected on Tuesday. U.S. Secretary of State, Antony Blinken said in a statement that, “To support a durable end to the fighting, the United States ...

By  Lara Adejoro The World Health Organisation, on Tuesday, said the violence that broke out in Sudan on Saturday had claimed  270 lives while about 2,600 people had been injured. The Director General, WHO, Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, said this at a virtual press briefing on Tuesday. Violence ...

At least 29 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa died when their two boats sank off the coast of Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, the Tunisian coast guard said on Sunday. Separately, in the last four days, five migrant boats have sunk off the coast of the southern city of ...

The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof Isa Pantami has said West African countries are eager to adopt how Nigeria dealt with the tech giant, Twitter. The Minister also disclosed that West African countries are looking for possibilities of adopting digital economy policies. ...

Kenyan police said on Thursday that they had arrested six teachers over a viral video of primary school pupils simulating sex as punishment in an incident that caused an uproar. The footage showed four boys in school uniform simulating sexual acts under a tree in the school compound as the ...

The United States Embassy’s tutoring of Nigerians on how to respect and protect the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons has sparked outrage. LGBTQI is the acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex. On Tuesday, the U.S. Mission announced it funded a 4-day ...

Vice President Badara Joof of The Gambia is dead. President Adama Barrow, who disclosed this in a tweet, announced that the tragic incident happened in India. “Fellow #Gambians, it is with a heavy heart that I announce the passing away of my #VicePresident, His Excellency, Badara Alieu Joof. The ...

Ella Williams (Mme Abomah) was once the world`s tallest lady in the late 1800`s and early 1900`s. She was reputed to be 7ft 6inch giantess. Though she was born in South Carolina in USA, her show manager claimed she was born In Dahomey (now Republic of Benin). Born in South Carolina in Oct. of ...

The federal government has revealed that three  Nigerians were shot and killed between 14th and 17th November, 2022 in South Africa. The Consulate General of Nigeria in Johannesburg in a statement issued yesterday said the killings of Nigerians in the Rainbow nation was as a result ...

The peoples of West Africa had rich and diverse histories and cultures centuries before Europeans arrived. Africans had kingdoms and city-states, each with its own language and culture. The empire of Songhai and the kingdoms of Mali, Benin, and Kongo were large and powerful with monarchs heading ...

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Sudanese demonstrators began gathering on Tuesday ahead of protests on the one-year anniversary of a coup that halted a democratic transition.Internet services were blocked, according to monitoring group Netblocks, as protests were planned in many cities and towns, including a march on the ...

(Bloomberg) -- Ghana’s cedi slumped to become the world’s worst-performing currency this year as investors continued to squeeze foreign capital to the west African country before a deal with the International Monetary Fund.The currency of the world’s second-biggest cocoa producer depreciated as ...

Justina UzoTourism stakeholders have long sought for seamless travel across the West African sub-region. Many complain that travel within the region is not only stressful but it’s also expensive.The issue was recently in the front burner again at the 65th Meeting of the UNWTO-CAF in Arusha, ...

Just two weeks ago, 34-year-old Ibrahim Traore was an unknown, even in his native Burkina Faso.But in the space of a weekend, he catapulted himself from army captain to the world’s youngest leader – an ascent that has stoked hopes but also fears for a poor and chronically troubled country.Traore, ...

 From the beginning of time, empires and tribes have always been on the neck of weaker empires. It was a simple case of the strong getting stronger and the weak getting weaker. Under King Ghezo, the Dahomey Empire grew strong and ruthless from their manner of slave raiding and attacking under ...

Scores of people were crushed and injured as Kenyans on Tuesday forced their way into a stadium where William Ruto is being inaugurated as president.A medic said a fence at the Nairobi stadium fell down after people pushed it and about 60 were injured, though the number may rise.“We had to treat ...

A South African man, Ndumiso Mona who fought with a leopard and killed it with his hands is trending on social media. The leopard escaped from the Kruger National Park in South Africa.Ndumiso Mona told reporters: "I stared death in the eyes. ready to punch like a boxer. I told myself one of us had ...

1. His long titleHis title was, “His excellence, President for life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idd Amin Dada,VC,DSO,MC,Lord of all beasts of the earth,and the Fishes of the sea and the conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in particular”.2. King of ScotlandThe Scottish ...

I have been to many countries of the world especially europe and i have discovered that God the creator of the universe has blessed us naturally in Africa more than most of those developed nations in europe yet we are the poorest continent. God has blessed Africa so much that almost all natural ...

By  Stephen Angbulu  The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) said on Wednesday that Nigeria was committed to promoting peace and harmony among ECOWAS countries by ensuring the release of the remaining 46 Ivorian soldiers held in Mali.According to a statement signed by his Special ...

An Italy-based Ghanaian man, Matthew Quaicoo has said that the issuance of Ghanaian passports to Nigerians will make his countrymen lose their reputation in oversea countries.Quaicoo who is reported to be an evangelist in Italy, then, asked Ghana’s foreign affairs to stop issuing the country’s ...

By Fadehan Oyeyemi The Federal Government has expressed determination that in no distant time, the areas of border disagreement between Nigeria and Cameroon would be resolved amicably.The leader of the Nigerian delegation, Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, ...

Democratic Republic of the Congo President Felix Tshisekedi said Sunday there was “no doubt” that Rwanda was backing a rebellion on their territory, but insisted he was still seeking peaceful relations with Kigali. His remarks were just the latest exchange against the background of ...