Kidnapped Nigerian footballers freed

Journalist Michael Scott Moore, a dual US and German citizen, is released after nearly three years in captivity in Somalia, officials say.

>Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday ordered a stepped-up drive to free 223 schoolgirls whose abduction by suspected Islamists has ignited a global outcry, as two girls who escaped told of their dead-of-night ordeal.

Will schoolgirls abducted by Nigeria's Islamists ever be freed?

A Nigerian man arrested after tweeting from the scene of an attempted jailbreak has been released nearly two weeks in custody, his family says.

The 15-year-old was taken into custody in March after stabbing the man who had tried to rape her.

Botswana grants asylum to 10 Eritrean footballers who refused to return home after a World Cup qualifying match, their lawyer says.

Nigerian female DJ and producer Florence Ifeoluwa Otedola popularly known as DJ Cuppy is embarking her Pan – African tour on eight countries. Tanzania is a fifth country she has visited in her month-long tour. The lovely daughter of the Nigerian billionaire, Femi Otedola came by at our studios and she had an exciting chat […]

A bus crash in Guinea results in the deaths of nine players from second division side Etoile de Guinee.

On a field scattered with rubbish, ripe with the smell of urine and criss-crossed by commuters and the occasional truck, a group of Ghanaian footballers practise drills, the early morning sun glinting off their metal crutches.