•Vice President Shettima Nigeria has advocated a concerted response to xenophobia in South Africa. It has asked the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to take the issue from the regional bloc to the continental body, the African Union (AU), reports The Nation. Nigeria and Ghana, two leading members of ECOWAS, are among the [&he...
•Members of the Zulu regiment known as the ‘Amabutho’ chant slogans as they march during a demonstration by the “March and March” movement in Durban, South Africa on June 30, 2026 Nigeria and Ghana have agreed to collaborate and strategise to prevent crises from escalating in Africa following recent Afrophobic protests and incidents targeting ...
The 96th Ordinary Session of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Council of Ministers opened in Freetown, Sierra Leone, yesterday, with ministers from across the region deliberating on key political, security and economic issues ahead of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government Summit. The two-day meeting, which...
•Jailed TikToker, Camilla Alhassan A Ghanaian court has sentenced TikToker Camilla Alhassan to one year in prison after she admitted to publishing false claims that President John Mahama sacrificed 32 cows in a ritual to secure victory in the country’s 2024 presidential election. Alhassan, 43, was convicted of offensive conduct and publication...
•Ebola outbreak The World Health Organisation warned today that Ebola was spreading in the Democratic Republic of Congo at a faster pace than during any previous outbreak of the deadly virus. More than 2,000 cases including 796 deaths have been confirmed in the DR Congo since the outbreak was declared on May 15, making it […]
•Ebola outbreak More than 2,000 Ebola cases, including 754 deaths, have been recorded in the DR Congo, where the World Health Organisation warns the outbreak may be two to four times larger than official figures suggest. The outbreak has spread to five provinces in the central African country, according to the latest figures released by [&hell...
•South Africa returnees alighting from Air Peace aircraft, today The final batch of Nigerians evacuated from South Africa amid rising xenophobic tensions has arrived in Lagos. The evacuees were transported aboard an Air Peace flight, which landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, at about 11:28 a.m. The government had ear...
A total of 315 Nigerian South African returnees are expected to arrive in the country on Wednesday, 15th July 2026, in a final evacuation move by the federal government. This was disclosed in a statement signed today by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kimiebi Imomotimi Ebienfa. The flight to be operated by […]
•The returnees Another batch of 40 returnees has arrived at the Lagos Airport from South Africa, bringing the total number of returnees in the sixth batch to 1,174. The returnees came through Air Peace in four different flights of 258, 266, 262, and 282, Value Jet 66, and the sixth batch came in a chartered […]
•Cameroonian soldiers and Tinubu The House of Representatives has urged the Tinubu-led federal government to take urgent diplomatic and security measures to halt alleged incursions by Cameroonian military personnel into Nigerian territory, warning that repeated border violations could undermine the country’s sovereignty and heighten insecurit...
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