December 3

• Nigeria/Mali: Eaglets Beat Mali to Qualify for Morocco 2013 AYC

  The Golden Eaglets yesterday made certain of a place at next year's African U-17 Championship in Morocco with a 2-0 bashing of Junior Eagles of Mali in the return leg of the last... Read more »

December 2

• Nigeria/Mali: Eaglets Face Final Hurdle in Bamako

  Nigeria's Golden Eaglets will this afternoon take to the pitch in a must win match against the Junior Eagles of Mali in Bamako in the final leg of the qualifiers for the 2013... Read more »

• Nigeria/Mali: Gov Imoke Urges Eaglets to Beat Mali

  In order to prove that their 2-0 first leg win in Calabar penultimate Sunday was not a fluke, Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State, has charged the Golden Eaglets to go for an... Read more »

November 25

• Nigeria/Mali: Manu Sure of Players' Confidence Ahead Mali Clash

  Chief Coach of the national U-17 team, Manu Garba has said the confidence in the team is still high despite the slim 2-0 victory over the junior team of Mali in the first leg of... Read more »

November 23

• Nigeria: Military Intervention in Mali [editorial]

  After many months of negotiations, the United Nations finally agreed with regional powers to intervene militarily and drive Tuareg rebels out of northern Mali and restore central... Read more »

November 20

• Nigeria/Mali: Eaglets Coach Confident After Mali Win

  Golden Eaglets Coach Manu Garba has said his team will qualify for the African Junior Championship after they beat Mali 2-0 on Sunday."We have to praise these boys for being able... Read more »

November 19

• Nigeria/Mali: Eaglets Beat Mali to Move Near Africa U-17 Qualification

  The Golden Eaglets defeated their Malian counterparts in an African U-17 Championship qualifier 2-0 at the UJ Esuene in Calabar yesterday.It is the first leg of the final round... Read more »

November 12

• West Africa: Bloc to Deploy Troops to Mali, Guinea Bissau

  The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has resolved to send troops to Mali and Guinea Bissau to quell internal strife in the two member nations. Read more »

November 2

• Nigeria: Nigeria and Foreign Intervention in Mali

  Ever since the takeover of northern Mali by some Muslim rebels, the country's political turmoil has been getting worse, and the growing insecurity threatens to spill over to some... Read more »

October 20

• Mali: Nigeria Intervenes in Political Crisis

  President Goodluck Jonathan in Bamako yesterday said the political crisis in Mali needed collective actions to resolve. Read more »

October 5

• Nigeria/Mali: 30 Referees, Others Begin Fifa Course

  Thirty elite referees, among them Peter Edibe (the only Nigerian referee involved in the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying race), 36 referee assessors and 20 physical fitness... Read more »

September 13

• West Africa: Ecowas Defence Chiefs Meet to Discuss Mali Mission

  West Africa's defence chiefs will be meeting in Abidjan to finalize the road map for the deployment of ECOWAS Mission in Mali (MICEMA). Read more »

September 7

• Mali: Why the Nation Matters [opinion]

  For many people, Timbuktu has long represented the essence of remoteness: a mythical, faraway place located on the boundaries of our collective consciousness. But like many of the... Read more »

August 31

• West Africa: The Military Option in Mali [editorial]

  President Goodluck Jonathan warned a fortnight ago, during a visit to Senegal that if talks with the rebel group that took control of northern Mali and declared the Azawad state... Read more »

August 24

• West Africa: ECOWAS Pledges Support for Mali Government

  The ECOWAS Commission has pledged it support for the new transitional unity government in Mali towards speedy recovery of peace in the country. Read more »

August 9

• Mali: Why Is Mali Spiralling Out of Control?

  Northern Mali promises to be the graveyard of scores of innocent people if African countries don't collectively challenge Western influence in the region. Read more »

August 2

• West Africa: Ecowas Welcomes Mali Interim President

  The ECOWAS Commission has expressed appreciation over the return of Dionkounda Traoré to Mali as the country's interim president of the transition government. Read more »

July 20

• Africa: Safe Guarding Africa's Cultural Treasure [editorial]

  Fears that the state of flux in Mali which started with the Tuareg uprising and the military coup that plunged it into turmoil might begin to imperil not just the peace of that... Read more »

July 13

• West Africa: National Council of State Meets Over Insecurity

  The National Council of State yesterday met for over three hours to deliberate on deteriorating security situation in parts of the country and neighbouring West African states such... Read more »

July 11

• West Africa: Mali and West Africa's Difficult Future

  The coup d'état of 21st March 2012 by middle ranking army officers In Mali has created a serious crisis that neither ECOWAS nor the African Union is sure of how to handle... Read more »

July 4

• Mali: The Deepening Crisis in Mali [editorial]

  The unresolved schisms that led to the military coup in Mali last March 22 and its aftermath have continued to fester, tearing the country further apart. Read more »

May 30

• West Africa: ECOWAS Rejects Northern Mali Secession

  The ECOWAS commission has condemned an attempt to create an Islamic State of Azawad in the occupied northern territory of Mali, following the merger of the rebel National Movement... Read more »

May 23

• West Africa: Ecowas, AU, UN to Send Mediation Council to Mali

  Ministers of the ECOWAS Mediation and Security Council (MSC) have proposed measures to address the current political developments in Mali in order to ensure the implementation of... Read more »

• Nigeria: The Beating of a President's Life [opinion]

  Wonders shall never end. There have been more than a hundred successful military coups all over Africa since most African countries gained independence from colonial rulers in... Read more »

May 18

• Nigeria: ECOWAS Begins Deployment of Troops to Guinea Bissau, Mali

  Chief of Defence Staff of ECOWAS member states have agreed on details of troops' deployment to Guinea Bissau and Mali to bolster the restoration of constitutional rule after... Read more »