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LAGOS—The Lagos State Police Command, yesterday, uncovered shallow graves allegedly used by prophet Emmanuel Adeyemi to bury clients, who died during spiritual cleansing in his Oke-Ira, Ogba home.
Nigeria's army says it has killed several commanders of the Islamist group Boko Haram in an air strike and seriously wounded its disputed leader.
South Africa's governing ANC party has lost control of the country's largest city and economic centre, Johannesburg. The city council elected as mayor Herman Mashaba from the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA).
Authorities in Zambia have suspended the licenses of three private broadcasters, including the country's biggest non-public TV station, saying they had posed a risk to peace and stability during this month's presidential election.
The leader of the Boko Haram group is believed to be fatally wounded in an air strike carried out by the Nigerian military in the country's northeast, according to a news-media report citing senior official sources.
A suicide bomber on a motorbike killed three people and wounded 24 at a market in north Cameroon, where armed group Boko Haram has been waging an armed rebellion since 2009, authorities said.
President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, assured Nigerians that they would soon begin to feel the real impact of his policies in their lives just as South west governors put forward suggestions on how perceptions of marginalisation could be redressed.
President Buhari spoke at the South West conference of the All Progressives Congress, APC, at Ibadan, where the APC national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun charged party members to enlighten the public that effecting change in the polity would take time. Oyegun noted that 16 years of PDP rot cannot be reversed in 15 months.
A man has been arrested and denied bail in Ogun State in southwest Nigeria after allegedly naming his dog "Buhari." It is believed the man was reported by a Northerner, a possible sympathiser of President Muhammadu Buhari, who is from Kano, northern Nigeria.
A man has been shot dead by police at an anti-government rally in Guinea's capital, according to officials, as more than half a million people protested against alleged state corruption.
Zimbabwe police have fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse several hundred protesters calling on President Robert Mugabe to step down, a week after the longtime ruler warned that protests "don't pay".
Zambia’s incumbent President Edgar Lungu was on Monday declared the winner of a closely-fought election in the southern African country, a victory that was immediately challenged by his main rival.
Election commission chief Esau Chulu announced that Lungu was “duly elected” after releasing the final results from Thursday’s election which put the president ahead of his main rival Hakainde Hichilema by around 200,000 votes.
“We are going to take up this matter legally,” Jack Mwiimbu, legal specialist for the United Party for National Development (UPND), told reporters.
A South African court has sentenced a woman to 10 years in prison for snatching baby Zephany Nurse 19 years ago and raising her as her own.
More than 120 bodies of people who died trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe washed up around Sabratha city in western Libya in July, the city's mayor said.
Al-Shabab attackers set off two car bombs outside a police base in Somalia's capital before gunmen stormed inside, leaving at least 10 people dead, police said.
Osogbo—Former Head of state , General Yakubu Gowon (retd), yesterday, took a retrospective look at the situation in the country and asked President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure that the country’s economy regain its strength to alleviate the suffering of the masses.
Gowon spoke at Ile-Ife at a programme, Health Caravan and Award ceremony for the Ooni of Ife, Oba Enitan Ogunwusi, who was conferred with the Royal Ambassador for Hepatitis Advocacy in Nigeria by the Seham Health Care Foundation as part of activities to commemorate the 2016 World Hepatitis Day.
The Kenyan authorities have deported one of Africa's biggest musicians, Koffi Olomide, after he was filmed apparently kicking a woman.
Up to 20 people have been killed and at least 40 others wounded, according to health workers, in two days of fighting in northern Mali threatening a shaky year-old peace deal.
Recent studies have suggested that condom use is on the decline in South Africa, which has one of the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world.
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