MALI’s military leader Assimi Goita has met the Russian ambassador to the East African country, according to his office. Goita’s…
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JOURNALISTS have been barred from covering the trial of six alleged coup plotters accused of making moves to oust President…
NIGERIA’s delicate balance between democracy and national security has come under renewed and intense scrutiny following unfolding legal and military…
THE Nigerian military has inaugurated a general court-martial to try 36 personnel accused of involvement in an alleged plot to…
THE Federal Government has filed a 13-count charge before the Federal High Court, Abuja, against alleged plotters of a coup…
GHANA’s government has removed the name of a coup leader, who helped overthrow founding father Kwame Nkrumah exactly 60 years…
MINISTER of Defence, General Christopher Musa (rtd.), has revealed that he was among the high-profile targets of a foiled coup…
SECURITY operatives have arrested Nollywood filmmaker and actor, Stanley Amandi, over his alleged involvement in a plot to overthrow President…
THE Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has confirmed the arrest of 16 military officers over acts of indiscipline and breaches of service…
FREDERICK Forsyth’s account of the Nigerian Civil War, mainly from the Biafran lens, is perhaps one of the most riveting…
ONE month after an attempted coup shook Benin, the west African country will hold parliamentary and local elections Sunday, set…
BURKINA Faso’s military authorities have announced that they have foiled what they described as a sophisticated plot to assassinate the…
POLLS have opened in Myanmar’s first general election since the country’s military toppled Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically…
CHABI Yayi, son of former Beninese president and current opposition figure Thomas Boni Yayi, was arrested early Sunday at his…
PRESIDENTS and their deputies from across West Africa met Sunday in Nigeria for a regional meeting whose agenda was dominated…
SOME 200 West African soldiers, mainly from Nigeria and Ivory Coast, are in Benin to support the government following Sunday’s…
BENIN’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Olushegun Bakari, on Thursday revealed how his country sought urgent military assistance from Nigeria to help…
NIGERIA’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar, has met with his Beninese counterpart, Olushegun Adjadi Bakar, in Abuja. At the…
NIGERIA deployed both air and ground troops to neighbouring Benin Republic on Sunday after President Patrice Talon’s government urgently requested…
BENIN’s President Patrice Talon says the government and armed forces have thwarted an attempted coup in the West African nation…