Speaker of Nigeria’s lower chamber, Femi Gbajabiamila,says the refusal of the separatist movements in the southern part of the country to accommodate dissenting opinions makes them the same as the Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists. He stated this on Wednesday…

Several persons have reportedly been killed and others injured in an aerial bombardment in Buwari community, Yunusari Local Government Area of Yobe State on Wednesday. A source in the community confirmed the incident to Channels Television, explaining that those injured…

Reports indicate that the feared leader of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) Abu Musab Al-Barnawi is dead. On Wednesday, APA news said Al-Barnawi apparently died during a gun battle toward the end of August in Borno State, The Nigerian government has however been tight-lipped about…

Governors from the southern region of Nigeria have declared their support for the collection of Value Added Tax (VAT) by state governments, in place of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). They made the declaration on Thursday at a meeting…

The cholera epidemic declared on 9 August by the Nigerien Ministry of Public Health has led to over four thousand and two hundred cases across six of the country’s eight regions and claimed 144 lives.  Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says…

Guinea has declared the end of the Marburg virus outbreak after no cases were reported for 42 days – twice the incubation period, or the time between two infections and the onset of symptoms.  The virus was confirmed on August…

The Gambia's President Adama Barrow has defended an alliance between his ruling National People's Party and former ruling Alliance for Patriotic Reorientation and Construction APRC, saying it was in the interest of reconciliation and national security. He says the agreement…

The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) has appealed to the Committee on Foreign Retail Trade to resume operations to close down shops belonging to undocumented foreign retailers.  This comes after the Nigerian Union of Traders Association in Ghana, (NUTAG),…