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Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo will today formally enrol as a graduate student at the headquarters of the National Open University of Nigeria in Lagos.

Residents of Asaba, Delta State are yet to recover from the shock of how a 19-year-old Godwin (not real name) allegedly impregnated his mother while testing his love charm.

Liberia's chief medical authority has placed herself in quarantine following the Ebola death of her deputy, health officials and humanitarian sources said on Sunday.

President Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, at the South-South Unity Party of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), held in Benin-City, vowed that his administration will crush Boko Haram exactly the way it fought the Ebola virus disease.

Panic is spreading across an African community after reports that two Ebola victims have risen from the dead.

The victims, both females in their 40s and 60s, died of the deadly virus in separate communities in Nimba County, Liberia.

French President Francois Hollande has strongly condemned the beheading in Algeria of tourist Herve Gourdel by a jihadist group linked to Islamic State (IS) militants.

The number of deaths in Nigeria's church hostel collapse has risen to 115, including 84 South Africans, a South African minister has said.

(CNN) -- One hundred thirty new cases of Ebola were identified during a three-day lockdown in Sierra Leone, Stephen Gaojia, the country's head of emergency operations, said Monday.

Following the several defeats Boko Haram terrorists suffered in the hands of Special Forces of the Nigerian military, some of the insurgents have surrendered to the Nigerian armed forces even as some of them who were captured during encounters were said to be giving useful information to the troops.

Business in Nairobi and Mombasa was disrupted for the better part of Friday as university students protested over the delay in disbursing Higher Education Loans Board (Helb) funds.

A frustrated 35-year-old man, Maimako Shepang has been cooling his feet in Plateau State police custody after he was apprehended for allegedly selling off his wife to ritualists.

 Officials in Guinea searching for a team of health workers and journalists who went missing while trying to raise awareness of Ebola have found several bodies.

 Kano, Nigeria - Suspected Boko Haram fighters have stormed a teacher training college in the north of the country, killing at least 15 people in a shoot-out and explosions. 

As hospitals in nations hardest hit by Ebola struggle to keep up, desperate patients are turning to the black market to buy blood from survivors of the virus, the World Health Organization warned.

A 45-year-old-woman on Tuesday walked out alive from the rubble of the collapsed building at the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) in Ikotun, Lagos, a rescue worker has said.

Sierra Leone parliamentarians are threatening to take drastic action against the media over coverage of use of funds allocated to fight the Ebola epidemic.

Four police officers were killed on Tuesday night by a speeding saloon car five kilometres from Emali shopping centre along Mombasa Highway.

The Military Court Martial  on Tuesday morning sentenced 12 soldiers to death.