The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari will not seek re-election without considering his state of health as pressure mounts on him to declare his stance on the issue.
The African Development Bank provided a much-needed lifeline at a time when it was very difficult to secure budget support loans from anywhere else, as the country struggled with the 2015-2016 economic recession, the Nigerian Government has said.
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has not yet declared his intention to seek re-election or not but his supporters are pushing for him to be re-elected as the country’s leader.
The Nigerian government has always claimed that it is winning the war against militant group Boko Haram with series of operations, but the group’s leader Abubaar Shekau has rejected that in a new released video.
A Nigerian court has suspended the intended plan by the Kaduna state to sack thousands of teachers who failed competency exams meant for their six-year old pupils.
The government of Switzerland has announced that it will be returning to the Nigerian government about $321 million from the seizure of assets from the family of the country’s former military leader Sani Abacha.
A major ally of the President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar has announced his decision to join the opposition political party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).
The Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is visiting the southeastern part of the country, also referred to by some as the Biafra region where there have been calls for secession.
Nigeria’s Justice Minister Abubakar Malami, has said that the country recently recovered $85 million of stolen assets from the UK. He claimed the money is linked to the Malabu scandal, a major case of alleged bribery involving oil giants Shell and ENI.
The Malabu scandal is one of the biggest corruption cases to hit Nigeria’s oil industry. Investigators in Nigeria and in Italy claim that $1.1bn – which was paid to the government by international oil companies in 2006 – never made it into the national coffers.
Some new apartments built at the residence of the Nigerian High Commissioner in Ghana’s capital city Accra, have been demolished by bulldozers.
The apartments have been constructed to...
Ghanaian health officials on Saturday said over 10,000 persons infected with the coronavirus have now recovered.
The significant number of recoveries means the country now...
Zimbabwe's Health Minister Obadiah Moyo has been arrested over corruption allegations related to procurement of medical equipment worth $60 million.
Moyo is accused of illegally...
