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Nigerian hanged in Singapore for cannabis offence

Photo Credit: BBC   A 38-year-old Nigerian man has been hanged for drug trafficking after being caught with 2.6kg of cannabis. "A 38-year-old male Nigerian national, Chijioke...

Children of Rastafarians in Ghana refused admissions into schools due to their dreadlocks

Some rastafarians in their dreadlocks. File photo Credit: 3FM   Rastafarians in Ghana have announced their intention to sue the country’s education ministry for denying their children...

U.N. expert questions legality of ‘brutal’ mass evictions in Nigeria

File Photo Credit: Amnesty International   A U.N. expert asked Nigeria on Thursday for urgent information about a forced eviction of thousands of people from makeshift...

32 people die in Niger from Rift Valley Fever

Rift Valley Fever primarily is an illness of livestock such as sheep, goats and camel. Photo Credit: AFP   Health officials in Niger have confirmed the...

Escaped Chibok girls overcome doubts and jealousy to attend university

When a colleague asked Margee Ensign to help her sister who had been snatched by Boko Haram from her school dormitory in Chibok and...

Niger Delta Avengers “bomb” oil pipes in Nigeria

The insurgency has badly affected oil production. Photo Credit: AFP A militant group in Nigeria called the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) has claimed to have...

Thousands of children risk dying of hunger in Nigeria

The UN says that overall 400,000 children in Nigeria's north-east urgently need humanitarian aid. Photo Credit: AP   The United Nation has announced that thousands of...

Ghana’s new flyover sparks excitement among motorists

The flyover is said to be the longest and highest in West Africa. Photo Credit: Starr FM   Some Ghanaians are excited over a new flyover...

550 migrants rescued at sea, five bodies recovered

About 550 migrants, most of them from West Africa, were pulled to safety from boats in the Mediterranean on Monday in five operations during...

Gambia to leave International Criminal Court Nov. 10, 2017: U.N.

Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) poses for pictures at The Hague, Netherlands October 26, 2016.REUTERS/Michael Kooren     Gambia has notified the United...

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