[Nation] When five former workers tried to attach Tuskys Supermarkets' assets last year to recover a Sh3.9 million court award, the retailer called a ceasefire and offered to pay the amount in instalments.

[RFI] Plastic surgeons in Johannesburg, South Africa have begun preparing to reconstruct the face of a nine-year-old Zimbabwean boy mauled by a hyena in an attack last month.

[Nation] Kenya on Sunday recorded 283 more Covid-19 cases, following the analysis of 3,452 samples in 24 hours, raising its number of confirmed infections to 179,075.

[Premium Times] All known aspirants so far are from the north, indicating that leaders assume APC will pick its next presidential candidate from the south.

[Premium Times] "Of the eight terrorist gun trucks sighted by our surveillance team, the aircraft successfully took out six of the trucks."

[Leadership] António Guterres has re-appointed Nigeria's Amina Mohammed as deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) after his re-appointment by the UN General Assembly for the second term on Friday.

[Premium Times] Some of the affected Lagos communities have been in darkness for 15 years.

[This Day] The Blessing Okagbare led Nigeria's 4x100m Women's quartet increased their rankings from top 16 to top 15 as curtain was drawn on the 2020 Olympic Games Trials in Lagos yesterday.

[Nation] Lusaka -- Zambia's first female chief justice, Irene Mambilima, has died in an Egyptian hospital after being taken ill while on an official tour.

[VOA] Shire, Ethiopia -- Hundreds of displaced families trampled down the stairs carrying stained mattresses, logs and kindling for cooking and sacks of clothing and food.

[VOA] Mogadishu, Somalia -- Three decades of violence have left 2.9 million of Somalia's citizens internally displaced, but the country is also home to 25,000 refugees, including 6,800 Yemenis and over 700 Syrians.

[Nation] During the just concluded national Olympics trials at Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani, three athletes came out of the woods to book their slots in Team Kenya for Tokyo Summer Games.

[Nation] The national government has started a dam building project targeting areas prone to inter-clan conflict in the north.

[Premium Times] The state's Attorney-General says his office will not be opposing the bail application filed on behalf of Ms Ogunniyi who gave birth to a baby boy in prison on Wednesday.

[This Day] Emirates Airlines will resume flights to Nigeria from June 23, five months after it banned outbound flights from its Abuja and Lagos destinations. This followed the withdrawal of the Rapid Antigen Test the United Arab Emirates (UAE) had in...

[The Conversation Africa] Think of your favourite former male football player from Europe. You probably remember beautiful goals, unbelievable saves, fighting spirit. What is he doing now? Coaching? Or is he a player agent? Perhaps a sports commentat...

[This Day] The Niger Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC) has announced plan to collaborate with the Federal Ministry of Water Resources to enable it build small and medium hydro power plants in the country, particularly in the north.

[Premium Times] Police say about 50 gunmen attacked the station in the early hours of Sunday.

[This Day] The Police Command in Oyo State, yesterday, confirmed the murder of a popular Ibadan Radio Presenter, Mr. Titus Badejo, by unknown gunmen.

[Vanguard] Abuja -- PRESIDENT of the Senate, Senator Ahmad Lawan, weekend raised the alarm that insurgency, banditry and kidnapping were further impeding the growth of education in the north, considering its backwardness in the sector.

[Vanguard] The South East Chairman of Miyetti-Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, Gidado Siddiki, said that the ban on open grazing by the Governors of Southern Nigeria will remain ineffective until an alternative to open grazing is...

[Vanguard] Nigeria is leadership-challenged at all levels, including an inability to regulate basic sectors. While the effects will be slow to manifest, the failure to properly regulate the aviation industry is quite frightening. No, I am not referri...

[Vanguard] The Ndigbo Unity Forum (NUF) worldwide, a non-governmental organization, has advocated the death penalty for looters of public funds, to eradicate the current spate of corruption in the country.

[Vanguard] South-South governors, the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN and a host of regional and ethnic-based organisations, Sunday, disagreed with President Muhammadu Buhari over his comments that there is nothing to restructure in Nigeria.

[Vanguard] The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, (SSANU), has advised the Federal Government to withdraw the circular directing that workers of the Staff schools should not be captured in the 2022 budget.

[Vanguard] Minna -- There was wild jubilation, weekend, in Tegina town, Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State as 15 kidnap victims surfaced after escaping from the forest they were kept by their abductors.

[SAnews.gov.za] President Cyril Ramaphosa will today participate in the opening session of the virtual Qatar Economic Forum.

[This Day] The Lagos State Athletics Association has confirmed the entry of 24 states and some clubs for its lucrative Athletics Meet fixed for Thursday, June 24, 2021, at the Teslim Balogun Stadium.

[This Day] Makurdi -- It was a sorrowful day as representatives of women groups trooped into the Doo Palace Hotel, venue for a press conference by an all female group known as the Concerned Benue Mothers, to protest the constant attacks by herdsmen a...

[SAnews.gov.za] President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on South Africans to do their bit to limit the impact of the unravelling third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.