President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will deliver a statement at the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) in New York, United States of America, today.
A survey conducted by the Performance Monitoring and Accountability (PMA2020) in collaboration with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has shown that Nigerian women committed about 2.7 million abortions in 2017.
Liberia's government has banned 15 people, including the son of former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, from leaving the country while it investigates the alleged disappearance of tens of millions of dollars intended for the central bank, the Ministry of Information has said in a statement.
An octogenarian herbalist and two young men are in the hands of the Nigerian police for allegedly beheading a police officer and plucking his eyes out for rituals.
Equatorial Guinea has demanded that Brazil hand back more than $16m worth of cash and luxury watches confiscated from a delegation which accompanied the president's son, Teodorin Nguema Obiang to Brazil.
The Liberian government says it is investigating what has happened to two huge consignments of money that were printed abroad and brought into the country between November last year and August this year.
The US will allow no more than 30,000 refugees into the country in the coming year, down by a third from last year’s cap, the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has announced.
More than three million people have been moved to safety in southern China as Typhoon Mangkhut moved northward and continued to wreak havoc across the region.
Gunmen have attacked a cinema in Nigeria's north-western Zamfara State, killing 11 people and injuring more than 20, witnesses and hospital sources told the BBC.
