The naira sold for as low as 460 to the dollar within Wednesday’s trading. The naira strengthened at the Investors and Exporters window on Wednesday, trading…
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According to local media, Nigerian Afrobeat musician Seun Kuti has been released on bail after spending days in detention for allegedly assaulting a police officer. Kuti,…
Separatists have kidnapped over 30 women and injured an unspecified number of others in Cameroon’s restive northwestern region, according to officials. The women were kidnapped in…
Nigeria’s outgoing president has inaugurated a 1.6km (one-mile) bridge crossing the Niger River in the country’s southeast. Muhammadu Buhari virtually attended the inauguration ceremony via Zoom,…
Thousands of people in Ethiopia’s Tigray region have protested for the return of residents who fled during the recent two-year war. A peace agreement signed in…
The Gambia’s only female mayor has been re-elected in elections in which President Adama Barrow’s ruling party fared poorly. Rohey Malick Lowe, a member of the…
According to a regional official, four nurses in Tanzania’s western Tabora region will be charged in court with harvesting the organs of baby twins. The bodies…
South African health officials confirmed that a cholera outbreak has killed at least 15 people. More than a hundred others have developed symptoms such as diarrhea…
Kashim Shettima, the Vice President-elect, stated that the Dangote Refinery will help stabilize the naira and improve the lives of Nigerians. Shettima gave this assurance on…
The Allied Peoples Movement, APM, said on Monday that it would present only one witness to prove its claim that the President-elect of the ruling All…