Nigeria's protests against police brutality turned violent Monday when a crowd stormed a prison and freed some 200 inmates in Benin in southern Nigeria.
Some prisoners jumped from a high fence of the institution while others were seen running away (...)
Hundreds of protesters marched to the gates of Nigeria's parliament on Thursday, hours after the army said it was ready to step in and restore order after more than a week of demonstrations against police brutality.
The protest defied a ban on mass (...)
EgyptAir resumed on Friday flights between Borg El-Arab International Airport in the northern goveronorate of Alexandria and Dubai International Airport.
Egypt's flagship carrier said it will operate three weekly flights between the two (...)
Egypt's flag carrier EgyptAir announced on Monday the resumption of flights to Accra and Abuja, the capitals of Ghana and Nigeria, respectively, as well as Lagos in Nigeria, later this week.
EgyptAir said it will operate three weekly direct flights (...)
When Loveth Metiboba's baby had diarrhoea, she worried that taking him to a clinic near her home in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, might expose them both to the coronavirus.
"The idea of going to the clinic was very scary," said Metiboba, a researcher (...)
Schools will reopen in Nigeria's commercial hub of Lagos next month as part of plans to revive the economy as COVID-19 cases decline, the state governor said on Saturday.
Lagos, the epicentre of the pandemic in Nigeria, plans to reopen colleges on (...)
African Reinsurance Corporation (Africa Re) has decided to distribute $3.3. million to support the fight against coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic in Africa.
The company decided on the disbursement after its annual meeting on 30 June that will be (...)
LAGOS, نيجيريا, 2020 أغسطس 5/ —
بطولة كرة القدم الحرة الافتراضية التي استمرت لمدة شهر والتي تحمل علامة بطولة إفريقيا المفتوحة لكرة القدم الحرة إلى 2020 تصل إلى نهاية مليئة بالطاقة والإثارة يوم الأحد 2 أغسطس 2020 مع نهائيات بطولة إفريقيا الثالثة لكرة (...)
LAGOS, نيجيريا, 2020 يونيو 28/ —
وصلت بطولة نيجيريا لكرة القدم الحرة لهذا العام إلى نهاية مثيرة يوم السبت 25 يوليو 2020 مع بروز كل من بنيامين إبونج وأوغسطينا أونامبا، كلاهما أبطال، كفائزين في المباريات التنافسية التي عقدت على الإنترنت.
واستضافت Feet (...)
LAGOS, نيجيريا, 2020 يونيو 22/ —
أعلنت Feet ‘N' Tricks International، منظمو بطولة إفريقيا المفتوحة لكرة القدم الحرة 2020، أنها ستُمد موعد بطولة كرة القدم الافتراضية الحالية.
كشف فلانتين أوزيجبو، رئيس Feet ‘N' Tricks International، في بيان صحفي يوم (...)
3Sayed Amin Shalabi sets out to review changes in the world order in the last two decades, detailing the relative decline of the US and the rise of such powers as Russia and China. Reviewing not only the present moment but also the last few (...)
The Apple Music streaming platform announced Thursday that “Africa Now Radio with Cuppy” will debut Sunday and will feature a mix of contemporary and traditional popular African sounds, including genres like Afrobeat, rap, house, kuduro and (...)
كشفت شركة Feet ‘N' Tricks الدولية، أكبر مروج لكرة القدم الحرة في إفريقيا، النقاب عن النسخة الأولى من بطولة إفريقيا المفتوحة لكرة القدم الحرة 2020، وهي البطولة الأولى من نوعها على مستوى القارة.
كشف فالنتين أوزيغبو، رئيس Feet ‘N' Tricks الدولية، في (...)
Nigeria's film industry is creeping back to work after lockdown, and one of the first productions to resume is a new television series about a highly infectious disease that has ravaged the world.
Cameras stopped rolling weeks ago due to the (...)
African countries have adopted different measures to fight the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The majority of the continent's countries have enforced traditional measures, such as the closure of schools, imposing curfews and banning religious, (...)
African Reinsurance Corporation's (Africa Re) total investment portfolio in Egypt climbed to around 2.5 billion Egyptian pounds ($158.7 million), said its regional director Omar Gouda on Wednesday.
The company's investment portfolio in the Egyptian (...)
The 21-year-old Nigerian comedian Maryam Apaokagi has joined a line-up of the nation's top performers working health tips into their routines to spread the word about COVID-19.
In one of her online videos, she plays the role on an all-knowing, (...)
Egypt will operate on Thursday three flights from Cairo International Airport to bring home stranded Egyptians from the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Nigeria, state-owned new agency MENA said on Wednesday.
Egypt has suspended international flights (...)
Two dozen Lagos healthcare workers in scrubs and face masks rushed outside the isolation tents and, making sure to keep six feet apart on the bright green grass, danced and swayed as a saxophone and trumpet struck up the band.
Inside the tents, some (...)
Tech startup founder Ebun Okubanjo watched with dismay as his home city of Lagos entered a coronavirus-containment lockdown, knowing well that millions of Nigerians on the margins could be left with nothing, Reuters reported on Thursday.
So he and (...)
The African continent, with a population of over 1.2 billion, has recorded more than 30,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and close to 1,500 deaths. The figures may seem less threatening when compared to those in Europe and the United States. But the (...)
Nigerian state governors have asked President Muhammadu Buhari to approve the compulsory use of face masks in public as confirmed coronavirus cases rise, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Saturday.
The 36 governors believe Buhari's approval (...)
Confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) infections have continued to grow across Africa, with the total number of infections reaching 15,249, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Of these cases, 816 have died, and 2,895 have recovered so (...)
Nigeria will extend lockdowns in Lagos, Abuja and Ogun states for an additional 14 days to combat the new coronavirus, President Muhammadu Buhari said in an address to the nation on Monday.
Initial 14-day lockdowns in the three areas began on March (...)
In a dark ground-floor room in Lagos, dressmaker Kemi Adepoju gazes at a pile of dresses she has made but which cannot be collected due to the lockdown in force to slow the spread of the new coronavirus.
"This lockdown came upon us suddenly. I used (...)
