The Central Bank of Nigeria has kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 26.5 per cent, signaling continued caution as it navigates slowing inflation and rising global risks. CBN Governor...

The head of Africa's top health body is calling on the United States to drop its Ebola-related travel restrictions on Uganda. Africa CDC Director-General Jean Kaseya said Tuesday he has...

Four Nigerian police officers are facing internal discipline after they allegedly set up an illegal checkpoint in Abuja and tried to extort the head of the country’s anti-graft agency. The...

Ghana's main opposition party is denouncing a court ruling that sent one of its senior leaders to prison for 20 years with hard labor over illegal mining. Bernard Antwi Boasiako,...

A former senior officer of the Department of State Services has given a first-hand account of the last hours of ex-military ruler Sani Abacha, saying the former head of state...

The Indigenous People of Biafra has alleged there is a coordinated plan to assassinate its detained leader, Nnamdi Kanu, and says it will take legal action against News Central Television...

National Democratic Congress vice-presidential candidate Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso says Peter Obi has put in writing his commitment to serve only one term if elected president in 2027. Speaking on Channels...

West African leaders have given final political approval to one of the continent’s biggest energy projects yet — a 6,000km gas pipeline that will run from Nigeria to Morocco along...

Panic gripped Osogbo on Monday morning after rival gangs clashed over control of motor parks in the state capital, leaving several people feared injured. The violence started at Old Garage...

Fuel supply pressure is building in Nigeria as the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, says its members have paused loading petrol at the Dangote refinery. Oyewole Akanni, zonal...