President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has voluntarily stepped down after 37 years in office.
Jacob Mudenda, Speaker of the Zimbabwean Parliament, made this known when he read the resignation letter to the lawmakers on… 
The Imo State government on Thursday conferred on Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf, president of Liberia the chieftain title of 'Adadioranma’ during her visit to the state
Johnson who arrived Imo state via the Owerri International Cargo… 
Dave Umahi, Governor of Ebonyi State, on Thursday in Abuja expressed his desire to contest for a second term as governor and wished to see President Muhammadu Buhari re-contest in 2019.
The governor said that any first term governor… 
An ex-Welsh Labour minister who faced a party inquiry into allegations about his personal conduct has taken his own life, BBC Wales reports.
Carl Sargeant, 49, lost his ministerial job as cabinet secretary for communities and children… 
An outbreak of a ‘lethal virus’ - Marburg - clinically similar to Ebola with no known cure has broken out in Uganda, health chiefs have announced.
The virus is one of the ‘most deadly’ pathogens in existence as it kills up to 88 per cent… 
Italian prosecutors are investigating the deaths of 26 Nigerian women - most of them teenagers - whose bodies were recovered at sea.
According to BBC, the investigators suspect that the women, aged 14-18 years old, were sexually… 
The plague in Madagascar — "the deadliest and most rapid form of plague" — suspected by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to be Pneumonic, could spread to nine other African countries: South Africa, Seychelles, La Reunion,… 
By David Leffler
During these dangerous times of high tensions in Somalia, terrorism could quickly end if Somali security forces were trained to form what is known in Latin American military circles as Prevention Wings of the … 
The United States has notified the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) that it is pulling out to assume a stance as a “permanent observer”, instead of an active member of the organization.… 
Benjamin Ogunbodede, former Executive Director of the Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IAR&T), has been sentenced to 40 years imprisonment by a Federal High Court in Ibadan.
Ogunbodede, a Professor and a priest of… 
Residents doctors in Kaduna State embarked on an indefinite strike on Tuesday over the "sorry state" of healthcare facilities in state-owned hospitals.
Joseph Jokshan, President of the Association of Resident Doctors in the state,… 
By Ayo-Bankole Akintujoye
A few months ago, I wrote about reasons why the call for Biafra, as is currently being done by IPOB, is crap and a sheer waste of time, for obvious reasons: secessions are not achieved with noise and… 
In a pure democracy, elected leaders simply carry out the wishes of the voters, while securing the absolute sovereignty of its territories from outside forces.
Since its independence from colonialists on October 1, 1960,… 
Itse Sagay, a professor of Law and Chairman of the presidential Advisory Committee on Corruption (PACC), talks like a man who is constantly under the influence of some substance, the Senate said on Wednesday.
Delivering a public… 
Finally, the D-day arrived and it was greeted with both happiness and a dash of trepidation by Muslims and Christians on the streets of Suleja, Niger State. The few that walked the streets kept throwing glances at everybody and nobody —… 
Prices of food commodities have continued rising despite low patronage from customers, with just a day to the annual Eid-el-Kabir celebration by Muslims.
Speaking with the ICIR, Sahid-Sahid, a vegetable trader at Wuse Market,…