The House of Representatives has introduced a bill to prohibit all public and civil servants and their immediate family members from patronising private schools and health care services.

There was drama at the National Assembly complex in Abuja yesterday as security operatives blocked Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP, Kogi Central) from resuming plenary.

The federal government has taken a firm position regarding states that opt to reduce electricity tariffs, stating that the responsibility for the corresponding subsidy must be borne by the states ...

The Association of the Parents of the Missing Chibok Girls has mourned former President Muhammadu Buhari. It acknowledged Buhari's administration's role in securing the release of 103 of the 276 ...

Press Release - Three Southern African countries now have Event-Based Surveillance (EBS) Guidelines--a critical tool for detecting and responding to emerging health risks. Event-based surveillance ...

Analysis - Protecting livestock in areas where large carnivores (like lions) live is increasingly important as human land use expands, wildlife habitat shrinks, and climatic changes reshape the ways ...

Efforts to strategically leverage health diplomacy to foster cooperation, strengthen partnerships, and promote stability across nations gained momentum when Africa CDC's Eastern Africa Regional ...

Parents of the 87 Chibok school girls still in captivity have called on Nigerian government to "move beyond rhetoric" and return their children back home.

Analysis - Statistics professor Johan Ferreira was feeling overwhelmed by the amount of "screen time" involved in online learning in 2021. He imagined students must be feeling the same way, and ...

Analysis - Ghana stands out in west Africa as a nation that has not experienced terrorist attacks, even though it's geographically close to countries that have. In Burkina Faso, Mali and Nigeria, ...

South Sudan's dramatic hunger crisis is worsening and millions of people there could miss out on food aid because of the global humanitarian funding crisis, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on ...

Madé Kuti, son of Femi, grandson of Fela, is carrying on the family's Afrobeat tradition with distinction and originality. For his debut 2022 album Forward (which we discussed at the time), Madé ...