Wild giraffe numbers have plummeted by 40 percent in the last three decades, and the species is now “vulnerable” to extinction, a top conservation body said Thursday.

Federal Judge who ordered Michigan to begin its recount effectively ended it on Wednesday, tying his decision to a state court ruling that found Green Party candidate Jill Stein had no legal standing to request another look at ballots.

Appointment of Nigeria’s Adebayo Ogunlesi as a member of U.S. President-elect’s Strategic and Policy Forum was top on Google search this week, an official said on Thursday.

The Borno Elders Forum (BEF) on Wednesday appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to end the crisis in Kaduna State.

Substantial successes have been recorded against the Boko Haram insurgency by the Multi-national Joint Task Force, Mr François Fall, the acting Head of UN Regional Office for Central Africa, has said.

Variety of Dishes lavishly and tastefully displayed to invite and tempt Lagosians who want to feed their stomach. At Mama puts or Bukkas dotted around the city, you find bankers, civil servants and artisans jostling to buy food at these spots. Madam give me Amala with efo riro, shaki, roundabout and pomo-they shout at the top of their voices.

Tim Nda Diche, the Kogi State Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, has resigned.

Ghana’s main opposition party on Thursday said it had a strong lead in elections and called on President John Mahama to concede defeat, while comments dismissed as “treasonable” by the incumbent’s campaign team.

Prof. Uche Uwaleke, an economic expert, has called on the Federal Government to enact a “Buy Nigerian Act” as one of the options out of the current recession in the country.

Ghanaians faced an anxious wait Thursday for the results of a nail-biting presidential election tainted by sporadic outbreaks of violence, with no clear favourite emerging from the early provisional results.

Chisom Egbuchulam’s sumptuous second half strikes handed Rangers a 2-0 win over Rivers United in the second game of the NPFL Super4 tournament in Enugu on Wednesday.

Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has commended Honeywell’s patriotic efforts at reducing food imports and creating employment in the all-important Food Manufacturing and Agriculture sectors of the economy

Abdullahi Musa scored with virtually the last kick of the game as Wikki Tourists of Bauchi recorded a come-from-behind 2-1 victory over ten-man FC Ifeanyiubah in the opening game of the 2016/17 NPFL Super4 tournament in Enugu.

A 62-year-0ld businesswoman, Adewumi Sanusi, who allegedly charmed her daughter’s friend with substance to drink appeared in Ikeja Magistrates’ Court on Thursday in Lagos.

‘Suspended’ Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) Comrade Timi Frank, has described, as an admission of guilt, statements credited to the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun to the effect that there is crisis in the party.