[RFI] Benin's newly created Senate elected former president Patrice Talon as its leader on Thursday in Porto-Novo, less than three months after he left office. He will serve a five-year term at the head of the country's new second chamber of Parliame...

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Coleman's statement, posted to his personal Facebook page, reads less like a routine institutional update and more like a man answering a question nobody asked him directly, because everybody has been asking it indirectl...

[This Day] Abuja -- Women leaders from 16 communities in Kundu Ward of Kwali Area Council, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), have launched a community-driven campaign aimed at ending open defecation and improving hygiene practices across the ward.

[Premium Times] This installment of PREMIUM TIMES 'series of exclusive reporting on last year's failed coup details how a veteran Nollywood actor became involved with suspected coup plotters after developing a friendship with a soldier, before being ...

[Vanguard] Presidential Candidate of the African Democratic Congress ADC, Atiku Abubakar, has raised the alarm over a suspicious credit into one of his private bank accounts domiciled with one of Nigeria's leading commercial banks, and has put securi...

[Ghanaian Times] Tema -- The Tema Regional Police Command has intercepted 866 parcels of substances suspected to be cocaine concealed in sacks of gari and allegedly destined for export, with an estimated street value of $6.928 million, and arrested f...

[FrontPageAfrica] He came to swear in judges and court marshals. He left having delivered the most direct public warning of his presidency -- to drug traffickers, yes, but also, if the words are taken at face value, to anyone inside his own governmen...

[FrontPageAfrica] Washington, D.C. -- The Embassy of the Republic of Liberia in Washington, D.C., proudly hosted the Fourth ECOWAS Ambassadorial Group Meeting, bringing together ambassadors and senior diplomatic representatives from West African nati...

[Vanguard] The Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Olatunji Disu, says the police will be professional, apolitical and impartial before, during and after the Aug. 15 governorship election in Osun.

[Vanguard] ABUJA: Presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress ADC, Atiku Abubakar, has demanded that the Presidency names the insiders allegedly connected to the fake Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council PFIPC scandal, desc...

[Premium Times] Mr Otedola now holds approximately 11.9 billion shares in the financial institution, valued at about ₦1.74 trillion based on the company's share price of ₦146.20 as of 12:35 p.m. (WAT) on 7 August.

[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala -- Tourism stakeholders have welcomed Uganda Airlines' decision to launch direct flights to Kigali, Rwanda, and Accra, Ghana, saying the new connections are expected to boost visitor arrivals, trade, and investment whi...

[Vanguard] Rangers International and Rivers United have been drawn against their opponents for the first qualifying round of the 2026/27 CAF Champions League.

[Premium Times] Davido and Mr Ahmad exchanged words on X in a fallout of EFCC's controversial freezing of an Osun State Government's bank account.

[Premium Times] According to a statement by police spokesperson Ani Iniedu, the deployments were aimed at strengthening operational effectiveness and advancing ongoing reforms within the Nigeria Police Force.

[Premium Times] "I want to state that we did not send any correspondence or any request to the Office of the Accountant-General in respect of this council. We don't even know anything about this council. We never heard about this council until we sta...

[IPS] London -- Burkina Faso's charismatic young military leader, army captain Ibrahim Traoré, has stopped pretending. In April, he declared that people should 'forget about the question of democracy' because 'democracy isn't for us'. When Traor...

[Ghanaian Times] The Northern Regional Minister, Mr Ali Adolf John Mburidiba, has described climate change as one of the biggest threats to Ghana's socio-economic development.

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Suspended Executive Director of the Independent National Commission on Human Rights (INCHR), Atty. Urias Teh-Pour, and the Commission's suspended Director for Planning, Internal Monitoring and Evaluation, Bah-Wah Brownel...

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- The arrest of a man accused of killing a 19-year-old woman who reportedly left home to retrieve her belongings has rekindled hope for justice for a grieving family and residents of the Omega Old Field Community in Paynes...

[FrontPageAfrica] West Africa has spent decades training plumbers, electricians and carpenters, only to watch too many of them finish their certificates and disappear into an informal economy with no customers, no capital and no path to owning anythi...

[Premium Times] The first preliminary-round fixtures will be played in September, while the decisive second preliminary round is scheduled for October, with qualification for the group stages the ultimate prize.

[Daily Trust] Ilorin -- Former Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, declared on Thursday that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is on course to reclaim power in Kwara State in the 2027 general elections.

[Daily Trust] A petrol-laden tanker exploded on Thursday night while discharging its contents at the AYM Shafa filling station in Garki Area III, Abuja, triggering a major fire that spread to nearby buildings.

[Daily Trust] Kano -- The Kano State Government has suspended its Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention, SMC, programme activities and constituted a committee to investigate its implementation.

[Daily Trust] Security operatives in Sokoto State have foiled two separate bandit attacks in Shagari and Rabah local government areas, forcing the attackers to abandon a total of 452 rustled domestic animals after gun battles with a joint security te...

[Ghanaian Times] More than a decade after Ghana joined the ranks of oil-producing nations, the country's upstream petroleum industry is facing a defining question: Is the steady decline in crude oil production the inevitable result of ageing oil fiel...

[Vanguard] A Professor of Psychiatry at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Prof. Taiwo Lateef Sheikh, has said that Nigeria is facing a deepening mental health crisis, with fewer than 300 psychiatrists available to serve a population of over 200 million...

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Foreign Minister Sara Beysolow Nyanti has rejected speculation linking her to Liberia's ongoing multi-million-dollar cocaine investigation, insisting that her role has been to mobilize international support for the count...

[Liberian Observer] Liberia's leading anti-corruption organization, the Center for Transparency and Accountability in Liberia (CENTAL), has welcomed the government's aggressive response to the country's largest-ever narcotics trafficking scandal but ...