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Nigeria's women's basketball team, D’Tigress, has cemented its dominance on the continent by securing a historic fifth consecutive FIBA AfroBasket title.

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[Liberian Investigator] Sometimes it takes just a careless remark to expose the truth. When the bulldozers tore through the CDC's Bernard's Beach headquarters, the Unity Party government insisted it was simply enforcing the law. But the gloating words of two senior LBS executives told a different story: that power was being wielded not with restraint, but with relish, confirming fears that the eviction was as political as it was legal.

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[Leadership] The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has opposed the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC's) plan to raise the remuneration of political office holders.

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[Leadership] The Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa'ad Abubakar III, has warned that justice in Nigeria is increasingly becoming a "purchasable commodity," where the poor are victims and the rich evade accountability.

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[Daily Trust] The Kwara State Government has vowed to ensure justice over the brutal killing of a woman lynched by a mob in Ilorin after being wrongly accused of kidnapping.

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[Leadership] The people of Rivers State appear to have mixed expectations as the six-month suspension imposed on Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy, Professor Ngozi Odu, and members of the Rivers State House of Assembly gradually comes to an end.

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South Africa’s government has warned its citizens, particularly young women, to be wary of Russian job offers circulating on social media. This

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[263Chat] Chaos erupted in Borrowdale last week when a local man allegedly assaulted his neighbour, stabbed him, injured himself while attempting to break free from handcuffs, and later fired 11 shots at police officers.

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[This Day] The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) successfully raised an estimated N8.99 trillion worth of Treasury bills (T-Bills) in seven months of 2025 amid growing investors' appetite for naira assets and a hedge against double-digit inflation rate.

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[This Day] Abuja -- President Bola Tinubu at the weekend sought the support of people from Nigeria's South-east region, stressing that no administration has been so good to the people from that part of the country than his government.

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Meta is making a massive strategic investment to accelerate Africa's digital transformation, betting big on the continent's booming online population.

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[This Day] The massive cut of Official Development Assistance (ODA) from historical donor countries is already taking a toll on Nigeria and other developing countries, constraining the fiscal space and worsening emergency hunger programme in the North east, among others.

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[Liberian Investigator] MONROVIA - Liberia's ruling Unity Party has rejected accusations of political interference in the court-ordered eviction of the opposition Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), with a top official insisting the party's ouster from its longtime headquarters was the result of its own failures, not government action.

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[Liberian Investigator] MONROVIA -- The bulldozers at Bernard's Beach did more than tear down concrete walls. They uprooted nearly two decades of political history, leveling the headquarters of Liberia's largest opposition party, the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC). By Saturday evening, what remained was rubble, grief, and a bitter clash of narratives between President Joseph Boakai's government and his predecessor, George Weah.

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In the challenging educational landscape of Malawi, an innovative pilot program is planting the seeds for a brighter future. Children in districts like

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A new study has found that direct cash transfers can dramatically improve maternal and infant health outcomes in rural Kenya. Researchers from UC

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A fascinating DNA analysis has dramatically reshaped our understanding of early medieval England, revealing that two individuals buried 1,300 years ago

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[IPS] Washington DC -- Chad is one of the most extreme examples of energy poverty, with just 10% of the population connected to electricity, a rural electrification rate below 2%, and a global per capita electricity consumption rate that's just 18% of the global average. This hinders its economic development.

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[The Conversation Africa] In today's world, huge amounts of data are being created all the time, yet more than half of it is never used. It stays in silos, or isn't managed, or can't be accessed because systems change, or isn't needed because business priorities change. This "dark data" accumulates in servers and storage devices, consuming electricity and inflating the digital carbon footprint.

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Khartoum residents displaced by years of fighting are returning home. But the Sudanese capital's infrastructure has been decimated and it will take years - and billions of dollars - to rebuild.

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[Dabanga] Port Sudan / El Fasher / Abu Shouk Camp / El Obeid -- In its latest report, the Sudan Conflict Monitor warns that "Sudan's warring elites are entrenching divisions while civilians pay the ultimate price." The publication, produced by the Sudan Transparency and Policy Tracker, Ayin Network, and the Human Rights Hub, details famine, massacres, and deepening political manoeuvring across the country, and was released yesterday.