Italy's government says it believes a Nigerian militant group's claims to have killed seven foreign hostages it seized last month. The...
Gabon's powerful ONEP oil workers' union said on Saturday it had begun an unlimited strike to demand the application of a 2010 agreement signed...
South African ex-President Nelson Mandela, 94, has spent the night in hospital after being admitted for what was said to be a scheduled check-up....
Friday’s presentation of two SUVs to Nigerian hip pop star, TuFace Idibia, and wife, Annie Macaulay, by Akwa Ibom State governor, Godswill Akpabio, at...
Former Governor of Zamfara State, Senator Ahmed Yerima, was arrested on Saturday by the Kaduna State Police Command for allegedly making an inciting statement...
President Goodluck Jonathan congratulates Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta on his victory in Monday’s presidential election in Kenya as declared Saturday in Nairobi by the country’s...
Reports say fundamentalist Boko Haram splinter group Ansaru has claimed that it has killed the seven foreign hostages it seized on February 7, from...
An Egyptian court confirmed on Saturday death sentences given to 21 soccer fans for their role in a stadium riot in Port Said last...
Incoming Chinese president Xi Jinping's first trip as head of state will take him to Africa, the government said on Saturday, as China seeks...
The Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) has directed all federal judiciary workers to commence a strike on Monday over the non-implementation of the...
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru,has expressed displeasure over an attack on the Chancery of the Nigerian Mission in Dakar,Senegal. ...
Kenya's Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta appears to have won the presidential election by the tightest of margins, provisional results indicate. ...
Tunisian Prime Minister-designate Ali Larayedh says he has presented the line-up of a new coalition government to President Moncef Marzouki. The...
National Examination Council (NECO) yesterday released the November/December 2012 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) with Kano and Lagos states topping the list of exams...
Kenya's electoral commission has said it is auditing election results so far tallied to iron out discrepancies that have been detected. ...
Taraba State Governor Danbaba Suntai is suffering from loss of speech and inability to comprehend what people say to him because of brain injuries...
President Goodluck Jonathan has declared that there will be no amnesty for members of the fundamental sect, Boko Haram, as demanded by some northern...
