Eromo Egbejule

Over 7,000 peo­ple have es­caped from sev­er­al pris­ons since 2010, with eight jail­breaks tak­ing place in past 14 months.

Pres­i­dent’s new man­date comes with re­newed re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to vic­tims of abus­es dur­ing pre­de­ces­sor’s 22 years in of­fice.

Res­i­dents take to the streets to de­mand ac­tion af­ter the lat­est spill af­fect­ing fish­ing com­mu­ni­ties in south­ern Nige­ria.

ADF, la­belled as a ‘ter­ror­ist’ or­gan­i­sa­tion by the Unit­ed States, is con­sid­ered the dead­liest group op­er­at­ing in DRC.

Firms in south­east­ern Nige­ria are los­ing busi­ness due to stay-at-home or­ders an­nounced by sep­a­ratists in the re­gion.

Leaked re­port con­firms dozens of ca­su­al­ties, de­tails ef­forts to cov­er up 2020 shoot­ing of un­armed pro­test­ers in La­gos.

In­cum­bent Pres­i­dent Adama Bar­row will face five chal­lengers in the De­cem­ber 4 polls.

IPOB leader Nnam­di Kanu has plead­ed not guilty to ‘ter­ror­ism’ and trea­son charges.

The cost of mar­itime pira­cy in West Africa was more than $800m in 2017: Oceans Be­yond Pira­cy

Re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty and in­te­gra­tion dom­i­nate agen­da as heads of states from across West Africa meet for ECOW­AS sum­mit.