When a guest house belonging to one of Nigeria’s leading Christian pastors collapsed last month attention turned to the multimillion-dollar megachurches that form a huge, untaxed sector of Africa’s top economy. Of the 115 people killed in the collapse, 80 … read more
Nigerians have staged a sit-in to renew calls for the release of more than 200 girls kidnapped from their boarding school in April. The sit-in, organized by the Bring Back Our Girls advocacy group, was held in the Nigerian capital, … read more
The Nigerian military has intensified the search for the pilots of the Alpha jet that went missing September 12 during a “routine operational mission” against insurgents in the North-east state of Adamawa. Confusion still reigns over the fate of the … read more
SaharaReporters published that the Cameroonian authorities paid Boko Haram insurgents at least $400,000 in ransom in order to secure the release of Francoise Agnes Moukouri, wife of Vice Prime Minister Amadou Ali. Boko Haram insurgents had abducted Mrs. Ali in … read more
The Oct. 10 report from the World Health Organization (WHO) on the Ebola outbreak raises some questions about the reports that organization is receiving from the West African nations fighting the disease. The WHO has expressed concerns about the under-reporting … read more
The Lagos State Government has declared October 15, 2014 as “Horn Free Day” as part of measures to sensitise residents to the harmful effects of noise pollution.According to a statement by the Lagos State Government on Friday in Lagos, Governor … read more
More than 4,000 people have now died from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, according to the World Health Organization. Most of those deaths have been in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. On Friday, the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO), … read more
Ten Chinese and 17 local hostages have been released in Cameroon, where they were kidnapped earlier this year in raids blamed on the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, Cameroon’s president said Saturday. “The 27 hostages abducted on May 16 in … read more
The State Department is renewing its global terrorism alert for Americans traveling abroad, saying it sees a heightened risk of reprisal attacks from the by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and its supporters. In a new “worldwide … read more
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State yesterday urged people of the state to refrain from activities capable of causing what he called “needless noise.” The governor said if only residents would cooperate with government in reducing noise as they did … read more