Tag: Nigeria

Official suits remain popular among prominent personalities across the world, including African presidents and business leaders. Attendees of high-level functions ...

Nigeria was the first country in Africa to roll out a central bank digital currency. The eNaira was launched in ...

The South African Minister of Home Affairs, Aaron Motsoaledi, recently lost a court case that anyone could have anticipated was ...

Water, sanitation and hygiene facilities are essential for health and welfare. Providing them is one of the core duties of ...

Terrorism is a global problem affecting many countries. Until 2017, however, southern Africa was largely spared from this phenomenon. The ...

Children’s health and development depend on how much time they spend doing physical activity, being sedentary and sleeping. Research on ...

Nigeria’s new president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has promised to make security a top priority of his administration. In his inaugural ...

As the 16th president of Nigeria, Bola Ahmed Tinubu inherits an economy that is grappling with inflation, chronic unemployment, extreme ...

In July 2022, BBC Africa Eye released a documentary on gang activity in northwestern Nigeria. The programme, The Bandit Warlords ...

Kidnapping for ransom has become a national security threat in Nigeria. How it’s done varies from targeted individuals, to indiscriminate ...

Five Nigerian soldiers have been reported dead after the vehicle they were in drove over a land suspected to have ...

Cubana Chief Priest, a popular celebrity barman, has addressed rumors that he fathered a child with a Kenyan woman. The ...

Nigerian rapper, singer, and pastor Olubankole Wellington, known as Banky W, has spoken for the first time since losing his election. ...

Nigerian singer, Tiwatope Savage, known professionally as Tiwa Savage is set to make her first acting role as the lead ...

Appealing to Nigeria's youth to come out and vote, outsider candidate Peter Obi on Saturday rallied thousands of supporters in ...

Two Kenya Airways (KQ) employees have been detained in India after being found in possession of precious metals. The Mumbai ...

It was just after dawn and tempers were fraying outside the First Bank in the northern Nigerian town of Kano, ...

It was only when she scrambled to the top of the mountain after fleeing the army attack on her village ...

Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said Wednesday that elections would go ahead as scheduled this month despite growing tensions ...

Temilade Openiyi, known as Tems, won a Grammy at the just concluded 2023 Grammy awards. The creme of Nigeria's Music ...

With just three weeks to go before Nigeria's presidential election, major cash and fuel shortages are stirring up public anger ...

Muhammed Bazza has been queueing for petrol under the blazing sun for four hours, while Alexander Okwori has spent the last ...

An angry mob clashed with police Monday in the northern Nigerian city of Kano to protest a visit by President ...

Nigeria's former deputy senate president and his wife appeared in a London court on Tuesday ahead of their trial for ...

Braving stressful waits, red tape and repeated visits, Nigerians are rushing to pick up their voting cards for next month's ...

Nigerian authorities have acknowledged "collateral damage" from air strikes against criminal gangs in which residents said around one hundred civilians ...

This year will be the fourth year running that Seyi Anne Moses has had to decide against going home to ...

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari voiced confidence Friday in free polls in February, brushing aside any impact from recent attacks on ...

A student facing a defamation case for a tweet about Nigeria's first lady had the charges against him dropped Friday, ...

The Kenya Times has learnt that some six artefacts looted by British troops 125 years ago from Nigeria, then known ...