A trader from Edo, Osifo Stanley, has emerged as President Bola Tinubu’s first challenger after purchasing APC presidential nomination forms worth N100 million.
A small passenger aircraft crashed in South Sudan, killing all 14 on board. Investigations reveal possible adverse weather as a factor in the tragedy.
5 years in Cameroonian city, Bamenda, is currently thriving in business of coffin due to 5 years of war going on in the city between French and English people.
Ivory Coast on Wednesday accused Mali of "blackmail" over 46 Ivorian troops who have been detained by Bamako and called for West African leaders to discuss the crisis as soon as possible. Mali accused Ivory Coast of insisting that ECOWAS -- the Economic Community of West African States -- take a hard line on sanctions aimed at pressing the junta to hand back power.
It has been more than 50 years since Queen Elizabeth II visited Sudan but there are still some who remember her tour of the formerly British-ruled territory in its first decade of independence. But the queen also visited development projects first conceived when Sudan was still ruled under a British-dominated joint administration with Egypt.
Ten people were killed in a second day of air strikes on Ethiopia's Tigray region Wednesday, hospital officials said, in attacks that came after authorities there expressed readiness for a ceasefire.
Fishermen perch precariously on wooden scaffolds stretching over turbulent rapids in northeastern Democratic Republic Congo, hauling up wicker baskets in the hope of catching tilapia or a Nile perch -– a time-honoured practice now threatened by overfishing. Baskets are then dropped from the scaffolding into the roaring currents to trap fish.
A French court on Wednesday will issue its verdict on involuntary homicide charges against Yemenia Airways over a 2009 crash that killed 152 people -- but miraculously left a 12-year-old girl alive. Yemenia is charged with involuntary homicide and injuries.
Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud urged citizens to stay away from areas controlled by Al-Shabaab jihadists as he vowed to ratchet up offensives against the militants. The recently elected president urged people to stop taking their disputes to so-called shadow courts run by the jihadists -- with Somalis complaining of weak enforcement by the country's legal system.
William Ruto was sworn in as Kenya’s fifth post-independence president on Tuesday, September 13 after his narrow victory in a bitterly fought but peaceful polls
The capital of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region was hit by an air strike on Tuesday, hospital officials and Tigrayan rebels said. Tigray has been hit by several air strikes since fighting resumed in late August between government forces and their allies and TPLF rebels in northern Ethiopia.
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