AFRICA

The Department of Basic Education has clarified that only senior officials in the education sector will return to work on 4 May to prepare for the eventual reopening of schools. There had been uproar and anxiety among parents after the department’s presentation to Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Basic Education, where …

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a dead man into office, naming the late Tobias Chukwuemeka Okwuru as a board member for a government agency, two months after he died. Mr. Buhari sent a letter to the country’s senate on Tuesday to confirm the list of 37 appointees but was …

Kenyans online are outraged after the ministry of health spent huge sums on tea, snacks and mobile phone airtime for its staff in the battle against coronavirus pandemic. Some 4m Kenyan shillings ($37,000; £30,000) has been spent on tea and snacks, while 2m Kenyan shillings has been used on airtime for …

The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in South Africa is 5 350, with 103 deaths reported. This is an increase of 354 from Tuesday. “This is the highest number of cases in a 24 hour cycle recorded to date and represents a 73% increase relative to the day before,” …

Popular televangelist, Temitope Balogun Joshua, commonly referred to as T. B. Joshua, leader of The Synagogue Church of All Nations, has once again visited the prayer mountain to commune with the Almighty God for answers to the dreaded Covid-19. Photos of the prophet are all over social media where he …

Mozambique’s security forces have killed nearly 130 Islamist militants in the past three weeks, the government says. Interior Minister Amad Miquidade said the gas-rich northern province of Cabo Delgado was now under government control. He said the military would carry out further operations to make sure all jihadist bases were …

The department of basic education appeared to backtrack on Wednesday from the announcement that schools would partially reopen for certain pupils next week. “We can’t say we are presenting a cast-in-stone plan. Yesterday, after presenting to the social cluster, they indicated that the date of May 6 is not realistic …

A Nigerian woman put up for sale on Facebook in Lebanon has been rescued – days after a man suspected of involvement in the advert was arrested. The advert caused an outcry in Nigeria. Chairperson of the Commission for Nigerians in the Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa told the BBC that the …

A Nigerian nurse was allegedly brutalized and abandoned by some Nigerian police officers of the Ondo State police force when she was on her way to attend to an emergency case at the hospital. The news was announced y a Facebook user named Fasasi Adelewa who wrote; “Nigerian Police With …

Chad on Tuesday abolished the death penalty for terrorist acts, quashing an exception that was on the books for four years, Justice Minister Djimet Arabi told AFP. The Sahel country passed legislation in 2016 to abolish capital punishment, but made an exception for perpetrators of terrorism. Arabi, who proposed the …