Atiku Abubakar demands an independent probe into 37 deaths in NSCDC custody, holding Tinubu and two ministers accountable over Niger illegal mining operation.
Ghana has declared Monday, September 21, 2026, a public holiday for Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Day, or Founder’s Day, with schools, businesses and offices to close.
The Senior Pastor of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Dr Paul Enenche was last week in Zambia for the Zambia Healing and Deliverance crusade for the people.
The remaining passengers taken hostage in March after gunmen bombed and attacked a train in northwest Nigeria have been freed, government and security officials said on Wednesday. No group claimed the March 28 train attack though officials have blamed jihadists cooperating with heavily armed criminal gangs who terrorise parts of northwest and central Nigeria with looting raids and mass abductions.
The World Health Organization (WHO) issued an alert Wednesday over four cough and cold syrups made by Maiden Pharmaceuticals in India, warning they could be linked to the deaths of 66 children in The Gambia. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters that the four cold and cough syrups in question "have been potentially linked with acute kidney injuries and 66 deaths among children."
Sixty-three confirmed and probable cases have been reported in the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, including 29 deaths, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. "So far, 63 confirmed and probable cases have been reported, including 29 deaths," Tedros told a press conference in Geneva.
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni apologised on Wednesday for a social media tirade by his outspoken son that included a threat to invade Kenya and remarks about the country's recent elections.
With campaigning underway for Nigeria’s 2023 election, the ruling APC is fending off questions over the health of its presidential candidate, former Lagos governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who has been out of the country. "Bola Ahmed Tinubu has to sign for himself.”
Lesotho, which holds parliamentary elections on Friday, is a politically unstable mountain kingdom entirely surrounded by South Africa, on which its economy largely depends while supplying its huge neighbour with most of its water.
The southern African mountain kingdom of Lesotho holds parliamentary elections on Friday, which analysts expect to deliver another coalition government, unlikely to tackle poverty and instability. - 'Haphazard government' - "Whichever party emerges victorious, a coalition government is inevitable," said Seroala Tsoeu-Ntokoane, a politics expert at the National University of Lesotho.
Africa needs time and money to wean itself off fossil fuels in order to achieve net zero without jeopardising its future, its representatives are warning ahead of next month's climate talks.
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