Nigeria: More than 1800 prisoners escape after prison attack
More than 1,800 prisoners escaped from a prison in southeastern Nigeria on Sunday night after an assault by gunmen. No one has claimed responsibility for […]
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Covid-19: Nigeria says it is making progress on developing its own vaccine
While India has suspended shipments of vaccine, which is expected to prevent Nigeria from receiving several million doses as planned at the end of March, […]
Africa: Democracy has declined in many countries a report stated
Two benchmark rankings point to a decline in democracy around the world in 2020. In Africa, the 10 most democratic countries no longer include Benin, […]
MMA: Israel Adesanya can enter the big league at the UFC
Israel Adesanya can become the fifth fighter in the history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) to be simultaneously champion in two different weight categories. […]
Nigeria: Release of 317 abducted school girls in Zamfara State
The girls who were captured last Friday at their boarding school in Jangebe, Zamfara State, were released at dawn on Tuesday morning. There are 279 […]
Day of office for two Africans at the head of prestigious international institutions
Nigerian Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala takes the reins of the WTO, the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. While the Senegalese Makhtar Diop takes over as the […]
Ghana: Vaccination campaign against Covid-19 with president and First Lady got vaccinated first
The vaccination campaign against Covid-19 starts this Tuesday, March 2. A total of 600,000 free doses of AstraZeneca vaccine will be distributed in 43 districts […]
Nigeria: Another 42 hostages freed while 317 girls have just been kidnapped
Forty-two hostages who had been captured last week were released last Saturday, February 27, in Niger State, in the northwestern part of the country. On […]
Nigeria: Release of over fifty passengers kidnapped a week ago
53 bus passengers, kidnapped a little more than a week ago in Niger State, in the central-western part of the country, were freed on Sunday […]
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is appointed Director-General of the WTO
The Nigerian Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was appointed Monday, February 15 at the head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the hope of putting an end […]