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South African Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius is led by an officer into a holding cell after being sentenced at the high court in Pretoria, on...

Jack Warner is wanted by the US on alleged corruption charges. Credit: Reuters The former head of Egypt’s football federation has claimed ex-Fifa vice president...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi issued a rare apology Sunday over a police officer beating a lawyer with a shoe last week, an attack that...

Nigeria’s fuel marketers, who are still not importing due to money owed them, have agreed to distribute fuel brought in by the state oil company,...

  Secretary of State for Security Affairs Rafik Chelli affirmed, Friday, that “Tunisia remains particularly cautious and vigilant against the expansion of the Islamic State...

By Obinna Anyadike, Editor-at-Large The Nigerian government’s focus on its war against the Boko Haram insurgency is obscuring a growing humanitarian emergency. The violence has...

 Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed his new government will investigate the military in response to an extensive Amnesty International Report claiming that thousands of...

The three-day World Economic Forum on Africa kicked off in Cape Town on Wednesday.  President Jacob Zuma says the World Economic Forum on Africa is...

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...