Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to quit as he questions his competence to rule Nigeria beyond his current tenure.
Nigerian police on Tuesday briefly detained activists calling for the release of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram jihadists nearly four years ago, campaigners said.
The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari will not seek re-election without considering his state of health as pressure mounts on him to declare his stance on the issue.
The former football star, George Weah has been sworn in as the new president of Liberia taking over from the continent’s first democratically elected female president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
Officials in Ghana have confirmed that a police post in the country’s capital Accra was attacked on Sunday by armed men who killed a police officer at the station and freed seven suspects.
Kidnappers have abducted two Americans and two Canadians in the northern Nigerian state of Kaduna, killing two police officers, a police spokesman said on Wednesday.
