The World Health Organization has announced the appointment of Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, as WHO Ambassador for Global Health Financing.  Mr Brown is widely credited with preventing a second Great Depression through his stewardship of…

police authorities have confirmed a Sunday morning attack by Gunmen on a church in Okene Local Government Area of Kogi State, North Central Nigeria. A church member was said to have been killed while two others were abducted.  WADR’s Usman…

Local officials say gunmen in northern Nigeria have released 10 more students after a ransom was paid, but 21 others remain in captivity despite a pledge to release them all. The Rev. John Hayab, the chairman of the local Christian…

Guinea's ruling military junta has no intention of bowing to pressure from ECOWAS. They said so at a press conference at the weekend in Conakry. They dismissed all decisions and sanctions of the organization on the crisis resulting from the…

The defense minister of France arrived in Mali on Sunday to express her government’s opposition to talks between Mali and Russia over hiring Russian mercenaries to fight jihadists. She is also calling on the junta to keep a promise to…

The European Union is to donate another 200 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to low-income countries, more than doubling its present pledge, the bloc’s chief said on Wednesday. The extra doses announced by European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen come…

Nigeria's government says it will lift the ban on Twitter in a ‘few days.’ The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, said this while answering questions from State House journalists at the end of Wednesday’s cabinet meeting chaired by…

As more than 37 million Nigerian children start the new school year this month, at least one million are being left behind – afraid to return to school due to insecurity. According to the UN’s children’s agency, UNICEF, learners are…

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has confirmed that two papers in the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) have been leaked.  The council stated that investigations it has conducted have revealed that excerpts from the 2021 Elective…