A small Nigerian air force passenger plane crashed just outside Abuja airport after reporting engine failure on Sunday, killing all seven people on bo...
Three months after the Trump administration rejected her, former Nigerian finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala received unanimous backing on Monday to...
Nigeria evacuated hundreds of its citizens from Saudi Arabia on Thursday after they overstayed their visas and were left stranded, two Reuters witness...
The Kenya Volleyball Federation (KVF) has successfully appealed for the repeat of the second round of the African Beach Volleyball Olympics qualifiers...
The digitally isolated country of Uganda is now back on the World Wide Web after the government restored the internet almost one week after it was thr...
At least seven people were killed in a Boko Haram attack on the majority-Christian village of Pemi in Nigeria's Borno state on Christmas Eve, a lo...
Nigeria should sanction CNN for a report that the country’s military shot and killed protesters demonstrating against police brutality, a minister s...
How many harrowing tales have you heard about people who have survived COVID-19 or those who’ve lost the battle? Most people now have a story to ...
Amid tensions last week over police brutality, mobs of Nigerian citizens are overrunning several government-owned facilities and ransacking palliative...
President Uhuru Kenyatta has nominated former Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) commissioners Margaret Mwachanya, Connie Nkatha a...
Kenya’s taekwondo fraternity is in mourning following the death of the 2008 Beijing Olympian Dickson Wamwiri Wanjiru. According to Kenya Taekwond...
By Victor Bwire I am writing this letter addressed to you Hon. Mutahi Kagwe, the Cabinet Secretary for Health acknowledging the commitment, focus a...
Nigeria has dropped a plan to allow some pupils to return to school because of a continued increase in the number of COVID-19 infections, its educatio...
Nigeria is reopening schools for the graduating class on the advice of a task force that students get help in preparing for examinations. ...
By Fredrick Banja By law, I officially crossed the legal age of the youths as prescribed by government about 3 years ago, that is age 35 years. Eve...
As Burundi enters a period of mourning for President Pierre Nkurunziza, who died Monday, his leadership during the coronavirus pandemic is being scrut...
The Nigerian government has lifted restrictions placed on religious gatherings during the coronavirus pandemic. The previous ban on religious and s...
In 2017, Paxful launched the #BuiltWithBitcoin charitable initiative to show that bitcoin can help people around the world. With the goal to build ...
Africa's ailing presidents and powerful elites have been known to jet out to seek treatment abroad, instead of investing in healthcare in their own co...
Lagos State Government has begun a house-to-house case campaign to identify possible cases of the COVID-19 disease. According to Commissioner for H...