APA
The troops of the 159 Battalion of the Nigerian army on Monday evening repelled an attempted terrorists’ incursion into the border town of Kanama, Yunusari Local Government of Yobe State in northeast Nigeria.
Nigeria’s upper legislative body, the Senate has withdrawn its suit filed at the Supreme Court on the suspension of Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen.
The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to publish within 24 hours, the list of all officials and ad hoc staff who would play any form of role in the forthcoming general elections at all levels.
The alleged plot by the opposition to connive with foreign body to rig elections and the withdrawal of the suit from the Supreme Court by the Nigerian Senate are some of the leading stories in Nigerian newspapers on Tuesday.
Scores of Zimbabweans staged a demonstration on Monday outside a Cape Town hospital where the country’s vice president Constantino Chiwenga is receiving treatment for an undisclosed illness.
The South African police service’s crack unit, The Hawks, have denied claims that they have a personal vendetta against popular church leader and Malawi-born Pastor Shepherd Bushiri of the Pretoria-based Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) church.
Malawi-born South African-based controversial pastor Shepherd Bushiri, who is under police custody over laundering charges, is being prosecuted because he is a successful black business man, an opposition leader alleged on Monday.
While the South African government continued to work hard to attract foreign direct investment into the country, there has been a positive change domestically, with companies pledging huge investments into the economy, Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has said.
President Macky Sall, who will seek reelection when Senegal goes to the polls on 24 February was on the campaign trail in the northwestern town of Kebemer, on Monday afternoon, boasting of his achievements during his first term in office.
The mayor of Anderaboukane, a locality in the north of Mali has been inadvertently shot dead by government troops who opened fire on his vehicle when he apparently disregarded an order to stop.