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A chubby-cheeked little boy whose serious expression turned him into a meme could end up educating an entire village.

The Gambia says it will pull of the International Criminal Court (ICC) after accusing the tribunal of persecuting and humiliating Africans. 

President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, sought the approval of the National Assembly for external borrowing plan of $29.960 billion to execute key infrastructure projects across the country between 2016 and 2018.

At least 12 people have been killed in an attack in Kenya believed to have been carried out by Islamist militants from Somalia.

South Africa has formally begun the process of withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC), notifying the UN of its decision. 

Liberia Presidential hopeful and former international football star, George Manneh 'Oppong' Weah, has been accused of owing the local subsidiary of Ecobank US$3,887.

Twenty-one schoolgirls who had been kidnapped by the Islamist group Boko Haram in the Nigerian town of Chibok have been reunited with their families.

President Muhammadu Buhari gave assurance to Nigerians in Germany today that his administration will be unrelenting in prosecuting the anti-corruption war.

Barring any unforeseen development, the United States (US) will be repatriating the $550 million Abacha loot, still trapped in the country, to Nigeria, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has said.

A corruption investigation expected to contain damning allegations against South African President Jacob Zuma will not be published on Friday, as planned.

UN Secretary General hails 21 girls’ release As negotiations for the expected next phase of the release of 83 Chibok girls begins this week, there were indications, last night, that the leadership of the Boko Haram sect might table two major conditions to be met by the Federal Government to seal the deal.

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that Nigerians’ understanding of his anti-corruption fight was why the removal of oil subsidy did not prompt public disturbance.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's wife has warned him that she may not back him at the next election unless he shakes up his government. 

Twenty-one of the schoolgirls kidnapped in 2014 by Boko Haram in Chibok, Nigeria, have been freed, the president's spokesman has confirmed.

A 21-year-old level 200 student of Geography, Benue State University (BSU),  Makurdi, Solomon Aondoaseer and his 20-year-old girlfriend, Doofan Agbaja, have been killed by members of a rival cult group in Makurdi.

Dangote Group is investing about $20 billion into gas pipeline infrastructure, power generation, petrochemical, fertiliser, sugar refinery and petroleum refinery in the country.

A Tanzanian, who is among six suspects charged with carrying out a terrorist attack at Garissa University in which 149 people were killed, has suffered a mental breakdown in prison.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has emphasised that Africa will be a priority when her country takes over the G20's revolving presidency at the end of 2016.