Addis Abeba — In statement issued today, Arshya Ahmed, the Speaker of the Gurage Zone Council, in Southern Nations, Nationalities and People's (SNNP) regional state, said that the zonal council has called its members for a meeting scheduled for tomorrow, 17 September. This is the first meeting by the Council after its emergency meeting held

Seven suspected "terrorists" have been reported killed and some 30 alleged accomplices of the Boko Haram jihadist group arrested over the past two weeks in south-eastern Niger. In its weekly bulletin on military operations, Niger's Defence Ministry said the seven suspects were killed in the town of Gueskerou, near the Nigerian border. The army also

VALERIA Bhunu, Zimbabwe's highest-ranked female tennis player, has been slapped with a lengthy ban by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) after a banned substance, Mesterolone was found in an out-of-competition sample. The 27-year-old Cape Town-based tennis player revealed in a statement on social media that she has been banned until December 2024 for testing positive

Cape Town — Bamako has responded to Abidjan's call for the Economic Community of West African States to get involved in the row between Cote d'Ivoire and Mali concerning Ivorian soldiers detained in Mali. Abidjan recently requested a quick meeting of the sub-regional body, while the Malian junta has made known its inflexible position through

Bamako — Mali's military government has called Ivory Coast's request for a regional meeting on Ivorian troops detained in Mali since July "intimidation" and "blackmail." Ivory Coast accuses Mali of holding its troops hostage. The Mali government's official statement says that it is "in no way concerned by" Ivory Coast's request to hold a meeting

Berlin on Friday took control of the German operations of Russian oil firm, Rosneft, to secure energy supplies which have been disrupted after Moscow invaded Ukraine. Rosneft’s German subsidiaries, which account for about 12 per cent of oil refining capacity in the country, were placed under trusteeship of the Federal Network Agency, the economy ministry

A civil society organisation under the aegis of Yiaga Africa has described as lies efforts to twist its report on the outcome of the governorship election in Ekiti and Osun States, saying it stood by that position. The organisation was reacting to publications credited to Ismail Omipidan, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Gboyega Oyetola, alluding

The detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has received his legal team in the custody of the Department of State Service and expressed optimism that the terrorism charges against him would be quashed by the Court of Appeal. The legal team on a routine visit granted by Justice Binta Nyako of

The British High Commission offices in Abuja, Lagos and across Nigeria will be closed on Monday, September 19, as the United Kingdom buries its late Queen Elizabeth II in London. This is contained in a statement posted to the official Twitter page of the United Kingdom in Nigeria, @UKinNigeria, on Friday. The tweet, however, stated

The National Peace Committee has invited presidential candidates, their parties and spokespersons to sign a peace agreement ahead of the 2023 general elections to ensure that their campaigns are issue-based and peaceful. The invitation was handed to the contestants, their parties and spokespersons through a letter on Thursday in Abuja. The letter indicated that the

Friday, September 16, 2022 Ebonyi Police Spokesperson, Chris Anyanwu A 3-year-old boy, who was rescued from a suspected rafficker, was on Thursday returned to his mother by the Ebonyi police command. The child was handed over to the mother by the command spokesman, SP Chris Anyanwu, in Abakaliki. Mr Anyanwu commended SP Miliscent Amadi-led team

Friday, September 16, 2022 Barry Ndiomu President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Major-General Barry Ndiomu as Interim Administrator of the Amnesty Programme. Femi Adesina, the president’s spokesman, confirmed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. The appointee hails from Odoni in Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, and was admitted to