Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Mr Yusuf Tukur Buratai, has vowed that he will not leave the theatre of Operation Lafiya Dole until he gives a final blow on the Boko Haram insurgents in the Northeast. Buratai had earlier announced his relocation to the Northeast following the pounding of the insurgents by the Chadian Army from the Lake Chad axis where President Idris Deby is claiming to have held a section of Nigeria, waiting to hand over to Nigerian troops. Chief of Army Staff, who had a special Easter celebration with the troops yesterday at Ngamdu Special Super Camp, regretted…

Beijing is facing a diplomatic crisis in Africa after reports of alleged coronavirus-related discrimination against African nationals in China sparked widespread anger across the continent. African students and expatriates in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou were last week subject to forced coronavirus testing and arbitrary 14-day self-quarantine, regardless of recent travel history, amid heightened fears of imported infections. Large numbers of African nationals were also left homeless, after being evicted by landlords and rejected by hotels in the city. Having reportedly contained the virus within China, concerns have grown in recent weeks over a so-called second wave, brought into…

The bored and the brave have taken over the six-lane highways of Nigeria’s capital, now on coronavirus lockdown. Vehicles in Abuja are mostly gone. In their place: hundreds of people doing group workouts with little concern for a disease that has so far killed 10 and infected 300 in Nigeria. “Since the lockdown, we are just at home doing nothing, no work, no food, nothing, nothing, so we decided to come and exercise our body instead of us sitting at home and just getting fat,” said Akinyemi Busayo, a trader, who was doing aerobics and other exercises in a group.…

'There’s not even a word created to describe my pain. It’s unimaginable' A Michigan woman has lost her entire immediate family to coronavirus after her husband and son died within days of one another. Sandy Brown of Grand Blanc told The Detroit News she was in unimaginable pain after she lost both her husband, Freddie Lee Brown Jr and her son Freddie Lee Brown III to Covid-19 in three days. "There's not even a word created to describe my pain. It's unimaginable," she told the newspaper. Her husband, who had a kidney transplant in 2012, fell ill in mid-march and…