Armed men dressed as soldiers fired into the air and stopped traffic in south Cameroon on Thursday, demanding the departure of long-serving President Paul Biya ahead of a controversial poll, reports said.

South African football enthusiasts are excited about another hosting right to stage the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations after a successful hosting of THE 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Two persons among them a graduate of Bayelsa State owned Niger Delta University were Thursday feared in a landslide which reportedly hit riverine Peremabiri community in the Southern Ijaw local government area of the state.

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) on Thursday named a 12-member committee to carry out a fresh review of the 1999 Constitution and Electoral Laws.

Dr Frederick Faseun, the founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), on Thursday appealed to the militant Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) to desist from carrying out its bomb threat on Saturday.

South Africans will glimpse into the lives of Nelson Mandela’s family when a reality show featuring three of his grandchildren premiers in 2012, the producers said Thursday.

Muammar Gaddafi diehards fought pitched battles on Thursday with combatants loyal to Libya’s new rulers for control of the ousted despot’s birthplace Sirte, with heaviest fighting focused at the port.

Yobe State government says it recorded only three cases of polio within the last two years.

Despite relentless efforts to combat software piracy in Nigeria, 82 percent of personal computer users in the country acquire software illegally most of the time, a new study on users’ behaviours and attitudes toward software piracy and intellectual property rights, has revealed.

Edo State police Command says it had declared a local chief (names withheld) allegedly involved in the series of kidnap activities in the state, wanted.