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Reports just reaching us indicate that, President Muhammadu Buhari is probably going to appoint himself as the new Nigerian minister of petroleum resources. According to...

FIFA President Sepp Blatter will step down as head of world soccer’s governing body but only after the organization’s executive committee organizes a fresh vote...

Burundians fleeing pre-election violence rest on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a gruelling 22-hour boat journey. More than...

  Striking MTN workers picket outside the company’s head office in Sandton, Johannesburg on May 20. Picture: SYDNEY SESHIBEDI A STRIKE by workers demanding higher...

In the escalating duel between U.S. and OPEC oil production, few countries’ oil industries have been hit as hard as Nigeria, highlighting a challenge for...

The United Nations human rights chief on Saturday urged several countries to intensify their investigations of alleged sexual abuse of young children in the Central...

  SPECIAL REPORT BY ‘JIDE ADESINA EDITOR-IN-CHIEF “I have to thank you on his (President Muhammadu Buhari’s) behalf and on behalf of the Nigerian government...

Most homes go without mains electricity for hours on end, and while Nigerian pumps about 2m barrels of oil a day, almost none is refined...

 By : ABUJA, Nigeria, May 28 – Nigeria’s outgoing President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday showed Muhammadu Buhari around his new quarters, as the former military...

‘There are 200,000 refugees from Nigeria in Chad, Cameroon and Niger,’ UNHCR Regional Representative for West Africa Liz Ahua told reporters in the northeastern Bauchi...

Is the Nigerian fuel crisis over? That’s a question being asked from Abuja to Pretoria, and the answers proposed are, frankly, contradictory. An agricultural development...

Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan is handing over a country in its worst-ever state, the main opposition said on Sunday, as fuel shortages and economic woes...

Nigerian drug agents on Saturday arrested a senator-elect wanted by the United States in a nearly 20-year-old heroin deal that was allegedly the basis for...

CARL DE SOUZA / AFP/GETTY IMAGES Burundi’s President, Pierre Nkurunziza waves from his car, flanked by security forces, while leaving an electoral rally outside Bujumbura...

A Rwandan already behind bars for assisting a massacre in Rwanda could face life in prison after Germany’s top court said he was also guilty...

The chairman of a U.S. congressional subcommittee has called for a full investigation into a Globe and Mail report of alleged Rwandan government involvement in...

President-elect Muhammadu Buhari yesterday expressed his  anonymity  and unstructured  system of Nigeria military’s inability to secure the life and property of its citizens. “The military...

The United States’ President Barack Obama has named his Secretary of State, Hon John Kerry as the head of the American “Presidential delegation” to the...

A Burundian refugee boy sits inside a mosquito net in his family’s makeshift tent room set up by the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for...

The Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID) condemns in the strongest possible terms the death sentences meted out today against its respected...