AFRICA

The US State Department has announced it is freezing nearly $160m (£118m) in foreign aid to Burkina Faso. The announcement follows a detailed assessment of the events leading to the overthrow of President Roch Kaboré in late January, which the US has now determined was indeed a military coup. It …

A Nigerian university student has been declared missing after reportedly sneaking out of her graduation ceremony to go see a male friend in another town. Omowunmi Akinwade, a 25-year-old fresh graduate of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye, has gone missing after visiting a male friend in Sagamu, Ogun State. Omowunmi …

A body of an unidentified woman was recovered on Friday morning by a riverside close to Al-Amin Mosque in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. Some residents said the woman, believed to be in her early thirties, was found lifeless and naked with only pants on her. It was gathered that …

No fewer than 17 persons died when a tanker caught fire along the Lagos-Ibadan highway in the Ogun State of Nigeria. The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) confirmed that the accident happened around 5 am on Friday, February 18 before the Isara bridge. The spokesperson of the FRSC in Ogun, …

A Madrid court has declared African football legend Samuel Eto’o as the biological father of a 22-year-old Spanish woman. The court, per reports by multiple European football outlets ruled on Thursday, February 17, 2021 that the ex-Barcelona and Real Madrid striker is the father of Erika Do Ro-sario Nieves. The …

Gabonese President Ali Bongo is in Brussels, the Belgian capital, for the African Union – European Union summit. He join dozens of African leaders who arrived at the seat of the European Union for talks between the two continental bloc. But a video of Bongo has become a major talking …

A case of wild polio has emerged in Africa for the first time in five years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. Malawian health authorities have declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after a case was detected in the capital Lilongwe, the WHO said. The poliovirus paralysed …

Five people died in a fire in Khayelitsha, Cape Town in the early hours of Friday morning. The fire broke out in Nonqubela, Site B in Khayelitsha, according to City of Cape Town Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson Jermaine Carelse. He said: The City’s Fire and Rescue Service was alerted …

The First Lady of Nigeria, Aisha Halilu Buhari celebrates her 51st birthday today, Thursday, February 17, 2022. Aisha Buhari has a bachelor’s degree in public administration at Ambrose Alli University (AAU), a master’s degree in international affairs and strategic studies from the Nigerian Defence Academy, and also holds a post-graduate diploma …

A woman aged 102 has declared her intentions to contest for Nigerian President in 2023. The woman, Nonye Josephine Ezeanyaeche says she has good plans to be executed in Nigeria should she be voted in as President. Ezeanyaeche, who is also called ‘living legend’ or “Mama Africa’, hails from Aguata, …