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At least seven people were killed after a building collapsed in the Sabon-Lugbe district of Abuja, Nigeria, over the weekend, according to police. Abuja police said “the building had already been partially demolished, and its structure was further compromised by scavengers looking for scrap metal.” Abuja police spokeswoman Josephine Adeh …

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has appointed former Miss Nigeria (1988) to the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, following a minor reshuffle at the Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday October 23. Prior to her appointment, Bianca Ojukwu was Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations World Tourism Organization. She …

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Morocco on Monday, where he is due to discuss partnerships on trade, climate change and immigration. President Emmanuel Macron will meet King Mohammed VI and Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch, and will also address parliament doing his three-day visit. His visit is intended to strengthen …

Togolese football legend, Emmanuel Adebayor, took to the pitch one last time on Sunday for a gala match in Lomé to celebrate his retirement. He was surrounded by a host of African football legends, including El Hadji Diouf, Nwankwo Kanu, Patrick Mboma, and Samuel Eto’o. The game took place in …

A hunter has been found dead with bullet wounds in a forest in the Ijebu Igbo area of Ogun State, Nigeria, according to reports. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, said, ” the deceased had gone hunting with a friend, but failed to return home.” “His delay in …

At least 40 Chadian soldiers were killed in a major attack by the Islamist sect Boko Haram on Sunday evening, October 27, against a Chadian army advance base in the Lake Chad region in the southwest of the country. The latter announced that President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno would be …

The Palestinian Ministry of Health has announced that more than 43,000 Palestinians, half of them women and children, have died in Gaza during the year-long conflict. In recent days, a further 96 casualties have been reported as fighting intensifies in the north of the Gaza Strip. “Israeli forces recently raided …

A 45-year-old taxi driver was found dead in a resident of Akyem Oda Old Town in the Birim Central Municipality of the Eastern Region of Ghana. “He was found with his hands and legs bound together in an uncompleted building,” according to reports. “The deceased left home for work on …

Two people have been killed, and several others injured in renewed violence following a chieftaincy-related gun battle in Bawku, Ghana. The longstanding chieftaincy conflict, which had recently appeared to calm, escalated after the return of a rival chief to the area. Alhaji Seidu Abagre, who had been in exile since …

Eight people were killed in cold blood after an attack on the village of Malgbangoun in northern Togo, according to reports. According to several residents, “armed men entered a compound and killed eight people in cold blood as the incident occurred on Friday night”. The owner of one house, who …