South Africa: Britain Bars Travel From South Africa After New Covid-19 Variant Detected
Health chiefs in Britain have banned travel from South Africa after two cases of a new variant of coronavirus were detected in the ...
Uganda: Top Human Rights Lawyer Nicholas Opiyo Arrested Ahead of Elections
Uganda's most prominent human rights lawyer, Nicholas Opiyo, has been arrested along with three other lawyers and a human rights officer for opposition ...
Shell fumes as Rivers govt takes over Kidney Island
Shell Petroleum Development Company By Davies Iheamnachor The Rivers State government has sealed and taken over the ownership of Kidney Island from Shell ...
2020 will be remembered as the year when everything changed.
Matthew Odu By Matthew Odu The coronavirus pandemic has infected over 70 million people, has caused over 1.6 million deaths and has subsequently ...
Ondo, Ogun stop ‘cross over’ vigils
Our Reporter Ondo and Ogun state governments have cancelled cross over vigils and shifted the resumption of pupils and students in primary and ...
Petrol tanker explosion kills six in Kwara
By Adekunle Jimoh, Ilorin A truck laden with premium motor spirit (PMS) on Wednesday exploded and killed six persons at Jebba in Moro ...
Kidnappers contact families of passengers abducted on Benin-Auchi Road
Kidnap …3 victims missing—Police The Kidnappers, who abducted passengers of an Abuja-bound bus along the Benin-Auchi Road on Tuesday have contacted the families ...
Central African Republic: UN Recaptures Town From Rebels as Election Looms
Attacks in the Central African Republic have called into question elections scheduled for December 27. UN troops have retaken the rebel-held town of ...
Africa: Continent Faces a Second Wave of Covid-19 – With Vaccines Months Away
The number of new coronavirus cases in Africa is rising sharply, and experts are talking of a second wave. But unlike in Europe, ...
Agitation for Igbo president grows
By Frank Ikpefan, Abuja A Pan-Ohanaeze Ndigbo socio-political organisation, Conference of Igbo Professionals Worldwide (COIPOW), has begun intensive campaigns, meeting and lobbying to ...