Students and academics protested at Turkey's top university Friday, defying a ban on the near 900-day strike imposed after President Recip Tayyip Erdogan was re-elected for five more years.

A Hezbollah official said Friday there was "no justification" for linking the powerful Lebanese group to an Irish peacekeeper's killing, a day after a judicial official accused five militants of last year's attack.

Senegalese authorities on Friday deployed security forces around the capital Dakar, a day after an outburst of violence left nine people dead following the conviction of opposition politician Ousmane Sonko.

The Dean, Faculty of Applied Sciences, KolaDaisi University, Ibadan ( KDU-I), Prof. Olajumoke Morenikeji, has called on the incoming administration under the leadership of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu to invest heavily in education, prioritize welfare of lecturers and pay the eight month outstanding salaries of the Academic Staff Union of Nigeria (ASUU) members.

A non-governmental organization based in Jos, Stefanos Foundation on Thursday revealed that about 1,872 deaths, 714 abductions, and 65 injuries were recorded in Nigeria between January and April 2023 alone.