•Nigerian arrested in Libya Authorities in Sabha, Libya, have arrested five Nigerian nationals accused of stealing electrical equipment from a local farm. The arrests were announced by Migrant Rescue Watch via social media yesterday, Monday, May 26, 2025, reports Vanguard. According to the report, officers from the Al-Qahira Police Department ...
The African Development Bank will meet in Ivory Coast this week to elect a new president. Candidates from South Africa, Senegal, Zambia, Chad and Mauritania are pushing to replace outgoing President Akinwumi Adesina, who will step down in September after serving the maximum two five-year terms, reports Reuters. The winner must secure 50.01% of...
•Kenyan journalist and human rights activist Boniface Mwangi (C) A Ugandan activist who was arrested and held “incommunicado” in Tanzania after attempting to attend a treason trial for an opposition leader has been found at the Ugandan border with “indications of torture”, a rights group said today. Ugandan activist and journalist Agather Atu...
•Some of the trafficked victims The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) has received another set of 13 trafficked Nigerian from Ghana and Mali. Director of Media, Public Relations and Protocols Unit NiDCOM, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, in a statement yesterday, said the victims, 12 girls and a five-year-old boy were received by NiDCOM Chairman,...
•Embattled Pastor Timothy Omotoso A Nigerian televangelist, Timothy Omotoso, has been deported from South Africa. The 66-year-old pastor was reported to be leaving the country yesterday from Johannesburg’s OR Tambo Airport for Nigeria, reports The Nation. Online videos show Omotoso at the airport in a grey hoodie and sunglasses, chatting with ...
•Flag of Ghana pinned on the map Ghanaian immigration officials said they had detained more than 2,000 undocumented foreign nationals in Accra today in an operation to dismantle criminal networks and curb street begging. Of the 2,241 arrested during the early morning raids, 1,332 were children, immigration services said in a statement. Interio...
•Gabon ex-President, Ali Bongo Ondimba Gabon former leader Ali Bongo Ondimba and his family have been released from detention and arrived in Angola’s capital, Luanda. “Following the initiatives made by the President of the Republic of Angola and President-in-Office of the African Union, Joao Lourenco, with President Brice Oligui Nguema of Gabo...
•John Mahama Ghana’s President John Mahama yesterday urged global firms to ramp up crude oil production in the West African nation before the global shift to renewable energy renders the resource worthless. He warned that Ghana risks seeing its oil resources stuck in the ground if drilling is not fast-tracked while demand still exists, reports...
•Prime Minister Amadou Oury Bah Junta-ruled Guinea is doing “everything” to ensure presidential and parliamentary elections are held in December, Prime Minister Amadou Oury Bah said today. The west African country’s junta leader General Mamady Doumbouya has promised that 2025 would be “a crucial electoral year” and has announced a constitution...
•President of the opposition Democratic Party of Cote d’Ivoire (PDCI), Tidjane Thiam Ivory Coast’s main opposition leader, who has been barred from standing in an October presidential vote, said today that he was resigning as party leader but would still lead the fight to win the election. Six months before voters choose a new head […]...
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