No fewer than 36 workers in the quarry have been attacked by gunmen in Kenya’s Mandera country, which shares border ...

Strict abortion laws in a West African nation is making women seek clandestine abortions and as a last resort kill ...

WINDHOEK (AFP) – Namibian Prime Minister Hage Geingob has won the country’s presidential election, the Electoral Commission said Monday, with ...

Nigerian security forces have succeeded in pushing suspected Boko Haram insurgents out of the Yobe state capital of Damaturu in ...

Naira posted a record low closing level against the dollar on Monday, despite central bank intervention to try and halt ...

Two rival factions of the Student Union Government of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, on Sunday evening engaged each ...

At the instance of the Nigerian government, the United States of America (USA) has discontinued its training of a Nigerian ...

Yacine Brahimi has been voted the BBC African Footballer of the Year 2014. The 24-year-old midfielder becomes the first Algerian ...

The Minister of Science and Technology, Abdu Bulama, Monday, said Nigeria, in a bid to hasten the pace of socio-economic ...

For stealing what she described as the biggest chunk of meat in a pot of soup, a food vendor, simply ...

Many persons are feared killed in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, Monday after two explosions went off at the Maiduguri ...

Boko Haram fighters and Nigerian security personnel are reportedly locked in a fierce battle as the rebels seek to take ...

Pope Francis on Sunday  on the  final day of his trip to Turkey  condemned the deadly attacks on the Central ...

  Boko Haram on Saturday  invaded Shani, the headquarters of Shani Local Government Area in southern part of Borno State. ...

A tragic accident has been reported in Abak local government area of Akwa Ibom State. 11 passengers, including a mother and ...

All Progressives Congress (APC), presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakarhas has cancelled his birthday dinner celebration because of the Kano Central Mosque bombing ...

Olamide has been declared winner of the Most Gifted West category, beating Davido, Burna Boy, Dr Sid at the ongoing Channel O Music Awards 2014. ...

Pope Francis prayed on Saturday on the second day of his visit to Turkey alongside a senior Islamic cleric in ...

A reporter of the Channels Television in Kwara State, Mr. Akeem Garba and his crew were assaulted in Ilorin while ...

The death has been announced of  a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gbenga Ashiru. He died in a South African ...