West Africa

A suicide bomber has killed several people in northern Nigeria's Yobe state at a venue televising a World Cup match, residents and medics say. A...

Russian Ambassador to Cameroon, Nikolay Ratsiborinsky has promised that his country will help Cameroon handle the rising Boko Haram and rebels of the Central...

POLICE, on Saturday night, foiled an attempt to bomb a branch of Living Faith Church (a.k.a Winners' Chapel) in Owerri, Imo State, as they...

Bamenda, June 16 - A bilateral meeting between elites of Tubah sub division and Tafah Edokat, Vice Chancellor of the University of Bamenda, UBa,...

The National Emergency Manage­ment Agency (NEMA) has said 6, 227 people have been displaced in Borno following incessant Boko Haram attacks, noting that the...

There is a tripartite battle of public opinion at play in the polity as the Presidency, governors –particularly those from the North – and...

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state has condemned Sunday’s attempt to bomb Pastor David Oyedepo's church,the Living Faith Church located on Port Harcourt Road,...

The majority Muslim island nation of the Comoros has banned a march over the kidnapping of over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by Islamic extremists, amid...

Abuja - Some of the schoolgirls abducted by militant group Boko Haram may never return home, Nigeria's influential former president Olusegun Obasanjo said, in...

There were strong indications, yesterday, that the security services have commenced a high-level investigation of a monarch in northern Nigeria, suspected to have links...