A jihadist group in Libya says it plans to take over security in the restive eastern town of Derna and impose sharia Islamic law, in a posting on Facebook. Witnesses said the group “Majlis Shura of Islamist Youth in Derna” staged a show of force on…
Browsing: African News
African News and Press Releases
Boko Haram militants attacked a village in restive northern Nigeria, killing 17 people and setting houses and cars alight, the local government said Sunday. Among the dead were Muslim worshippers shot as they prayed in the village mosque, said Abdullahi…
Nigeria on Sunday became Africa’s biggest economy, leap-frogging South Africa, after the government announced a long-overdue rebasing of the country’s gross domestic product. The new calculations take into account changes in production and consumption…
Gunmen believed to be Fulani herdsmen stormed a meeting in northern Nigeria’s Zamfara state and killed 30 people, police said Sunday. “Thirty people were killed and several others injured,” Zamfara state police spokesman Lawal Abdullahi told AFP. “The…
Cameroon’s security forces Sunday were sweeping the remote northern region where two Italian priests and a Canadian nun were kidnapped by suspected Boko Haram gunmen, a local government official said. “We are everywhere. We have been on the ground since…
The brother of Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri will stand trial in Egypt along with 67 others on charges of forming a “terrorist group”, state media reported on Sunday. Mohamed al-Zawahiri was arrested last August for supporting Islamist president…
President Goodluck Jonathan will never support any attempt to divide Nigeria, Vice-President Nnamadi Sambo has said. Sambo made this known…
Following the Borno-Yobe People’s Forum opposition to any attempt by the Federal Government to extend the emergency rule in the…
Ebikeme Clark, son of elder statesman, Chief Edwin K. Clark has finally regained freedom after spending days in the den…
Labour Party (LP) flag bearer in Ekiti State, Opeyemi Bamidele, has vowed to give priority to those he termed ‘local…
Following last Monday’s ruling by the Federal High Court (Abuja Division) which declared as unconstitutional, the defection of 37 members…
Gunmen suspected to be members of the dreaded Islamist sect, Boko Haram, yesterday struck in Yobe State killing no fewer…
Frontline Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark can now heave a sigh of relief after his son, Ebikeme, who was kidnapped…
The attention of the Bayelsa State Government has been drawn to some misleading reports by a section of the media surrounding…
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country and largest oil producer, is set to emerge as the continent’s biggest economy on Sunday when the results of an overdue rebasing of its gross domestic product are announced. Although United Nations statisticians…
United States Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of African Affairs, Bisa Williams, who visited Nigeria, said corruption is extremely high in…
A student of Ambrose Alli University (AAU) has been shot dead during a clash by rival cult groups in the…
The Anambra State Police Command on Saturday paraded 19 suspected kidnappers. The command also displayed arms and three bags of…
Gov. Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa State has called on the Federal Government to review the military operation in the state…
The new smart national identity card is in compliance with the security recommendations and standards of the International Civil Aviation…