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Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has faulted claims by United States President Donald Trump alleging persecution of Christians in Nigeria, saying the crisis has never been a Christian-Muslim war but…
A court in Somalia has sentenced journalist Abdiaziz Ahmed Gurbiye to six months in prison over Facebook posts that were critical of the government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Mr…
The president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has been cleared of corruption charges after a review by an independent panel. The US, one of the bank’s biggest shareholders, insisted…
West African presidents have demanded the release of one of Mali’s opposition leaders, Soumaila Cissé. He was kidnapped by an unknown group just days before the now-disputed parliamentary elections on…
A top Kenyan politician has apologised for flouting a dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed to help stop the spread of coronavirus. Nairobi Senator Johnson Sakaja was over the weekend found drinking at…
Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has condemned Egypt’s involvement in the conflict in Libya. He said Cairo’s support for eastern-based commander, Gen Khalifa Haftar, was illegal. Turkey is allied with…
Fahim Saleh, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gokada, one of Nigeria’s ride-hailing motorcycle services, has been found murdered in a Manhattan apartment by the police in the US…
John Obaro, Managing Director of Nigeria’s foremost technology firm, SystemSpecs, has enjoined government, regulators as well as other players in the private and public sectors of the Nigerian economy to…
Somalia’s army commander, General Odowaa Yusuf Rageh has survived a suicide car bomb attack that targeted his convoy at the heart of Mogadishu but left at least one person dead…
Search operations are underway as Nigerian authorities confirm that six people were kidnapped and one shot dead, close to the north-western city of Kaduna on Sunday. The hijack happened in…