President Muhammadu Buhari has directed his Minister of Health to ensure effective utilization of Global Fund’s provision of 890 million dollars, over the next three years. The fund, donated by The Global Fund, an international donor agency, is meant to…

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is providing take-home rations to 5,000 pre-primary and primary school children and their household members.  The rations comprising of rice, fortified vegetable oil, and pulses are intended to mitigate the impact of the…

Nigeria's House of Representatives has asked the office of the National Security Adviser and the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development to immediately stop issuing licenses to oil servicing companies for the importation of explosives. This followed concerns that licensed…

Lawyers representing victims of one of the deadliest massacres in Liberia, have presented evidence to a judge in the United States, calling for the prosecution of Colonel Moses Thomas, the former head of an elite unit within the Armed Forces…

The government of Senegal has lifted nighttime curfew on the capital city of Dakar and a nearby region of Thies. The curfew was lifted on Friday. The government imposed the restriction on the regions in January amid the increase in…

deadly clashes reportedly took place on Saturday between unidentified armed individuals and volunteers for the defense of the country. According to a police source, two volunteers were killed in the double attack, and a dozen people were killed in the…