FBI has confirmed that President Bola Tinubu once featured in its drug-related investigation in the US in the 1990s. You should read the details of the confirmation.
Gunfire and explosions erupted in Niamey as soldiers struck key sites, seized the airport, and clashed with guards before security forces regained control.
The family of slain Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba said Friday it hoped to finally turn a grim page of history as former colonial master Belgium prepares to return the last remains of the independence hero. "We hope that there will be a result before they die," said Roland Lumumba.
Inside the cavernous Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic church in Lagos, a man in a dark hoodie stops menacingly at the entrance and glares at the Christ statue before him. Back at the Lagos church, an actor's makeup is touched up by the light of a cellphone as lighting crews look how to capture the colours of the stained glass windows.
Senegalese police blocked off access to the home of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko after he called for protests on Friday, at a time when the country is in the grip of pre-election tension.
In January, a military junta seized power in Burkina Faso, pledging to restore security in a country ravaged by a nearly seven-year-old jihadist insurgency. - Frustration - "The military came to power by generating a wave of enthusiasm among the public.
The death of 11 newborn babies in the neonatal unit of the Mame Abdou Aziz Sy Dabakh hospital in the western city of Tivaouane, Senegal has caused an outrage.
Burkina Faso's ex-president Blaise Compaore was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara.
Osinbajo will speak at a High-Level Meeting at the famous Obasanjo Presidential Library, share perspectives on engendering democratic governance in West Africa.
The Ghanaian government has announced that the salaries of political appointees’ will be cut by up to 30% as part of measures to ease its financial problems.
A survey in Nigeria by the World Health Organization indicated 63 million people lack access to safe drinking water and are exposed to waterborne diseases.
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