A Federal High Court, Abuja, for judgment in a separate suits filed by leader of the Islamic Movement, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenah, against Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) and others, over alleged refusal to issue them new international passports.

The candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, has promised that he will not endanger the relative peace existing in Nigeria in his challenge of the results of the February 25 presidential election.

Abia State Council of Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has expressed dismay over the failure of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, to issue a categorical statement on the use or otherwise of old naira notes.

Four petitioners filed a case at Kenya’s high court seeking to stop a government plan to nationalize the importation of petroleum products, saying it violates the constitution.

The Cabinet Secretary of Health, Dr. Nakhumicha S. Wafula, today met with the Egyptian Ambassador to Kenya, Wael Nasreidin, to discuss areas of mutual cooperation between the two countries.

After a little embarrassing spat with South Africa, it now appears that the diplomatic row between Israel and South Africa has turned uglier.

The US State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement while calling for calm amid accusations of voter fraud and concerns over technical hitches.

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, said sacrifices of the Armed Forces remain appreciated by Nigerians.

As controversies continue to trail Nigeria’s just concluded 2023 presidential and National Assembly polls held last weekend, The Financial Times of London has said the elections were badly flawed, just as it lambasted the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for misfiring.

Six states in Nigeria on Friday night withdrew a suit asking the Supreme Court to void the result of the just-concluded presidential election, the latest twist in several challenges facing the ruling party’s victory in the vote.

Tensions are mounting in Nigeria’s capital as election officials continue releasing official results from Saturday’s presidential vote

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has won the presidential election held in Ondo State on Saturday.

Vote counting is under way in Nigeria's tightest presidential election since military rule ended in 1999.

Since Russia’s invasion, many African governments have officially not taken sides. But that may now be changing, even if the war’s impact on food security has not.

Some frustrated Nigerians cast their ballots with flashlights while others stood watch at their polling stations as counting got under way late Saturday amid fears of vote tampering after a day of delays in Africa’s most populous nation.

On the 24th anniversary of the election that returned Nigeria to Democracy in 1999, Nigerians will today file out to elect a President that will run the country for another four years, effective May 29.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will commence the collation of 2023 presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday at midday.

Kenya and Uganda have maintained their opposite voting stances on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, keeping a pattern that may explain the influence of Moscow in the wider African continent.

Kenya is set to receive donation of 25000 metric tonnes of wheat from Ukraine within the next month, a Ukrainian official has said.

Country ranks 114 of globe’s 132 surveyed countries as Switzerland ranks first.