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By John Ikani At least four people have been killed and a shop destroyed in an explosion near a primary school at Aba by Court road in Sabon Gari, Kano State. The explosion caused a lot...

By John Ikani  The exchange rate between the naira and the US dollar closed at N421.5/$1 at the official Investors and Exporters (I&E) window, depreciating by 0.6% from N419/$1 recorded the previous day. The naira reached...

More than 10.5m people in the Sahel region of Africa are at risk of hunger in the coming months, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has warned. A so-called green famine, when stores of...

The first commercial flight in nearly six years took off from Yemen’s rebel-held capital on Monday, a major step forward in a peace process that has provided rare relief from conflict. The Yemenia plane carrying 126...

Official figures show that Zimbabwe has lost nearly 1,800 nurses, mainly to Britain. That’s more than 10 percent of all the nurses working in public hospitals. The outflow of nursing staff is stripping the country of...

By Emmanuel Nduka Operatives of Nigeria's anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) on Monday, arrested serving Accountant General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris over allegations bothering on money laundering to the tune of...