AFRICA

Gunmen in the early hours of Sunday invaded the Nigerian Customs Service premises in Calabar with the intention of carting away seized food items meant for delivery to Internally Displaced Persons camp across the country. The hoodlums, who invaded the premises around 4:00 a.m shot indiscriminately while trying to break …

Gunmen on Monday abducted the Chief Medical Director of the Irrua Specialist Hospital, Edo State, Prof. Sylvanus Okogbenin, after killing two policemen attached to him. The Medical Director was said to be travelling to Benin. This is coming on the heel of a similar abduction of two Assistant Directors of …

Following the recent security challenges in Enugu State, students in the state under the auspices of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) have joined in the call for the immediate removal of the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Suleiman Balarabe, for lack of capacity to secure the state. In a statement …

The Presidency on Monday said the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has “nothing to do with President Muhammadu Buhari since he arrived Yokohama, Japan, on Monday.” Buhari had departed Nigeria yesterday for Japan to participate in the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7) holding in the City of …

A University of Cape Town student has reportedly been missing since Saturday, the authorities have said. Uyinene Mrwetyana, 19, was last seen at around 13:30 in the Claremont area, NGO Pink Ladies said in an alert posted on Facebook on Monday. Mrwetyana lives at Roscommmon House on Main Road in …

The Democratic Republic of Congo has announced a coalition government, seven months after the inauguration President Félix Tshisekedi. Mr Tshisekedi, son of the late veteran opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, won a bitterly contested election in December, marking the first peaceful transition of power since DR Congo gained independence from Belgium …

A Hong Kong police officer fired a gunshot during protests on Sunday, the first time a live round has been used since demonstrations broke out in June. Images show several other officers also pointed guns at protesters who were chasing them with sticks. In another first, police deployed water cannon …

Algeria’s culture minister has resigned, after the deaths of five young music fans in a stampede at a packed concert by a popular rapper. Meriem Merdaci’s resignation follows public outrage over Thursday’s stampede in the capital, Algiers. Thousands had gathered at a stadium to see Abderraouf Derradji, better known as …

South African authorities have seized a plane from Tanzania’s national carrier, the Tanzanian government said. The Airbus 220-300 was due to fly from Johannesburg, South Africa, on Friday to Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. It was not immediately clear why the action was taken, and South African authorities have not …

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) says its Air Task Force (ATF) of Operation Lafiya Dole has neutralised scores of Boko Haram terrorists (BHTs) and destroyed their hideout at Bula Korege on the fringes of the Sambisa Forest in Borno. NAF made this known in a statement on Saturday by Air …