Jacob Zuma on Monday said South Africa was becoming a “constitutional dictatorship” after the country’s highest court upheld its decision to jail him for contempt.

Omokri, who served under Jonathan, had in an article accused the Muhammadu Buhari government of killing six of the Islamic cleric’s children.

“Three months and no prosecution has been heard about the 400 sponsors and funders of Boko Haram and bandits. It is an ongoing cover-up by Malami,” a top source stated.

Violence against children cost Nigeria $15bn in 2018, a new report by the World Bank and the End Violence Partnership / Safe to Learn Global Initiative has shown.

The Federal Government via the Nigerian Atomic Energy Commission (NAEC) and the Ministry of Power are currently cementing talks with the Russian Federation on plans to accommodate nuclear power in the Nigeria’s national grid.

The partnership between Qatar Airways and RwandAir is set to reshape the regional airspace with carriers such as Ethiopian and Kenya Airways staring at a possible loss of transiting passengers.

The deals concluded by United Kingdom and Kenya during President Uhuru’s trip last week are an indication that a post-Brexit UK is ready to freely engage and expand its investments and influences across the world, especially with commonwealth countries like Kenya where historical socioeconomic links still exist.

based business intelligence and investment firm Investera has launched operations in Kenya, which will see it guide foreign investors seeking to invest locally and link the local firms to foreign opportunities.

The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has shown its first public and maritime presence in Pemba in northern Mozambique this weekend, with the arrival of the navy’s SAS Makhanda strike craft.

Under Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland will travel to South Africa, Botswana, Tanzania, and Niger from July 31 to August 6.

Three weeks after the KwaZulu-Natal violence, we as a country have yet to get a proper handle on why Zuma’s incarceration sparked the unrest that has cost all of us so much.

Residents did not want members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) to hold their Ghadeer, a religious meeting, in the area.

Nigeria’s liabilities to the World Bank and the African Development Bank rose from $7.14bn to $14.35bn between June 30, 2015 and March 31, 2021, data obtained from the Debt Management Office have shown.

The Commonwealth has said it is closely monitoring developments around the suspension of Twitter and allegations of repression of the rights to freedom of expression, access to information, media freedom and disregard for the rule of law in Nigeria.

Various reports suggest that US senators are planning to halt the agreed sales of warplanes to Nigeria on the ground of human rights.

Kenya and the UK have signed a five-year Defence Cooperation Agreement (DCA) to tackle shared threats across East Africa.

The United Kingdom (UK) Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab welcomed Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to Mansion House in London to announce $184 million of new UK investment in Kenya. He also launched the Nairobi International Financial Centre, and its formal partnership with the City of London.

A non-governmental organization (NGO) Access to Justice has called on Kaduna State Government to walk away from the path of political persecution of members, the leader of Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibraheem El- Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat Ibrahim and begin a constructive dialogue with the group and the Kaduna people on ways to forge a new future and repair badly fractured relationships.

Mr El-Zakzaky and his wife were arrested in December 2015, after the Nigerian Army extra-judicially killed over 300 followers of the Shiite cleric.

Femi Falana, a human rights lawyer, has revealed why the Kaduna State Government filed fresh terrorism charges against Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, and his wife, Zeenat.