Six days after a Nigerian Air Force C-130 aircraft made a precautionary landing in Burkina Faso, the 11 military personnel on board have remained in detention as diplomatic efforts intensify to ...

Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger Republic have remained hostile to Nigeria because of its opposition to the overthrow of democracy in the three French-speaking West African countries. Had last Sunday’s ...

The Nation Newspaper Senator Arise urges Tinubu to consider military option for Nigerian soldiers in Burkina Faso ...

A former senator representing Ekiti North and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ayodele Arise, has called on ...

A former Ekiti lawmaker and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Senator Ayodele Arise, has urged President Bola Tinubu to consider the option of military action against Burkina Faso to secure ...

By the early 2000s, West Africa appeared to be turning a corner. Multi-party elections had replaced decades of ...

Burkina Faso briefly detained eleven Nigerian military officers after a Nigerian Air Force C-130 aircraft made an emergency ...

The Republic of Benin recently survived a military coup. It was a story of force, power play, and tension. The country nearly ...

Contrary to earlier reports, information has emerged that Burkina Faso has not released the eleven Nigerian Air Force (NAF) ...

One aspect of the botched Benin Republic putsch that has left many inside and outside Nigeria seemingly disconcerted is the ...

A failed coup in Benin is the latest in an increasingly volatile West Africa. To encourage stability, Europeans should ...

French special forces provided support to Beninese troops who put down an attempted coup at the weekend, the head of the ...