Nigeria, Ghana and Albania top of the list of countries with the highest number of deportees from Britain and it’s costing the UK government humungous amount of tax payers’ money to keep the pace. More than three-quarters of the deportation flights, usually chartered flights,  went to Albania, Pakistan, Nigeria and Ghana, according to new findings ...

The ECOWAS Court of Justice on Wednesday, dismissed a suit by Obinna Umeh and three others, challenging the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which bars independent candidacy in election contests. A three-member panel of justices presided by the court’s President, Justice Edward Asante, held that Nigeria did not breach any convention or charter. ...

A ship carrying liquefied natural gas from Nigeria entered a port in the U.S. state of Georgia on Thursday as energy firms seek facilities to store the super-cooled fuel with stockpiles nearing full capacity in Europe. The ship, Madrid Spirit, is heading for Kinder Morgan Inc’s Elba Island LNG plant near Savannah, according to ship ...

Out of job Harry Redknapp has been tipped for a shock return to management, this time as manager for Nigeria. It will be his African national team experience as a manager. He has been manager at Tottenham, Southampton, Portsmouth but Birmingham was his last job in 2017. The 73year-old gaffer is now set for his ...

An English court threw out a $1.1 billion case Nigeria had brought against Royal Dutch Shell and Eni related to a dispute over the OPL 245 oilfield popularly called Malabu oil deal, a court document showed on Friday, while a related trial in Italy continues. The Nigerian government filed the case in 2018 at a ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday reported that COVID-19 cases in Africa as at May 21, had risen to over 95, 000 with 2,995 deaths. WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, gave the update on its official twitter account @WHOAFRO. “There are over 95,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent – ...

Nigeria’s naira and other emerging market currencies will struggle over the next three months against the stronger dollar as tensions between the United States and China over the coronavirus pandemic mount, a Reuters poll of FX strategists showed. The naira has been particularly beaten down in the forex market plunging to as low as N460 ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) says since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in Africa, 112 health workers from 16 countries have been infected. WHO disclosed this in a weekly Bulletin on outbreaks and other Emergencies week 16 which covers April 13 to 19 released on Tuesday and posted on WHO Africa twitter account @WHOAFRO. ...

By Henry Cranfield On April 2, 2020, Rocket Internet announced that they have sold their holding in Jumia.  Without stating their reasons for pulling out of Jumia, analysts and keen watchers of the Africa e-commerce market were quick to point to lack of profitability and the black sheep tag which Jumia is fast attaching to ...

Chad’s government said on Sunday that its army would continue to participate in regional taskforces targeting jihadist groups, as well as the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali, following President Idriss Deby’s suggestion it might withdraw its troops. Chad is a key contributor to a multinational force in the Lake Chad basin fighting Nigerian jihadist group ...