Mugabe pleaded guilty to being in South Africa illegally and pointing a gun in a separate incident, while Matonhodze pleaded guilty to attempted murder.

… vows to conduct a credible, all inclusive polls By Emem Idio, Yenagoa Traditional rulers, elders and other eminent personalities in Ijawland under the auspices of Council of Ijaw Traditional Rulers and Elders (CITRE) has declared the election into the executive positions of the Ijaw National Congress ,INC, conducted on April 13 as null and […]

A blackout on several social media sites in Guinea, which is ruled by an authoritarian government, was lifted Friday, bloggers and other users in the west African nation said.

A French court on Friday handed film director Christophe Ruggia a five-year sentence on appeal for sexually assaulting an actor when she was a child in one of the key trials of France’s #Metoo movement.

Nigerian comedian Okechukwu Anthony, popularly known as Okey Bakassi, has announced a N5 million reward for information leading to the recovery of eight phones allegedly stolen during a football match in Ikoyi, Lagos.

The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, and Financial Markets Dealers Associations have introduced the Nigerian Overnight Financing Rate, NFOR, as the new money market benchmark to promote consistent pricing of money market instruments.

International benchmark Brent North Sea crude plunged 10 percent to $89.11 a barrel, after earlier falling five percent on US-Iran peace deal hopes.

In the quiet corners of Gadadin Primary School in Dutse, the Jigawa State capital, the dust carries a memory that the community cannot just shake off. It is the memory of a child who, many years ago, went looking for water and never came back. That stark memory sticks and constantly haunts the people like a plague.

The ADC factional leadership accused the organisers of the April 14, 2026, convention of undermining the rule of law, insisting that the exercise was conducted in defiance of binding judgments of the courts.

Frenchman Herve Renard told AFP on Friday he has been relieved of his duties as Saudi Arabia coach, less than two months before the start of the 2026 World Cup.