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Ghanaian public officials implicated in Airbus corruption scandal

Some Ghanaian public officials have been implicated in an Airbus corruption scandal, but the incident occurred between 2009 and 2015. According to British court documents,...

Popular Nigerian preacher Adeboye leads protest over insecurity

Popular Nigerian preacher Enoch Adejare Adeboye, on Sunday, led a street protest calling for an end to the spate of insecurity and killings in...

Ghanaian singer Kofi B dies after performing at concert

Ghanaian musician Kofi Boakye Yiadom, known in showbiz as Kofi B has died after performing at a concert in the central part of the...

Ghana probes 6 Chinese nationals for torturing local worker

Ghanaian police officials are investigating six Chinese nationals who reportedly tortured a local worker at a stone quarry in the central part of the...

Nigeria reacts to U.S. visa ban by creating a committee

Nigeria’s government has reacted to recent imposition of visa ban by the United States by creating a committee to hardly the issue. The West African...

Ghana: Politicians exchange blows over voters’ register row

Some politicians in Ghana have exchanged blows at a meeting to iron out differences over the controversial plan to compile a new voters’ register. The...

Nigeria: Lagos commercial motorcycle riders protest state ban

Commercial motor-cycle riders in Nigerian state of Lagos have launched a protest against the ban on their activities. Nigeria’s Lagos State government this week announced a...

Nigeria’s President Buhari holds talks with ex-leader Jonathan

Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday held talks with the country's former President Goodluck Jonathan in Abuja. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Thursday's...

Sierra Leone’s DSTI gets $1mln grant for the Education Innovation Challenge

Geneva-based  UBS Optimus Foundation and the Peter Cundill Foundation have awarded a 1,050,000 swiss francs (10,5 billion leones) grant to the Directorate of Science,...

Oil and Gas Council hosts first Senegal offshore licencing round

President Macky Sall opened the Oil & Gas Council’s 4th MSGBC Basin Summit & Exhibition in Dakar on Wednesday. Held in partnership with PETROSEN, Senegal’s...

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Nigerian High Commission apartments in Ghana demolished

Some new apartments built at the residence of the Nigerian High Commissioner in Ghana’s capital city Accra, have been demolished by bulldozers. The apartments have been constructed to...

Covid-19: Ghana records significant recovery numbers

Ghanaian health officials on Saturday said over 10,000 persons infected with the coronavirus have now recovered. The significant number of recoveries means the country now...

DR Congo: President’s ex-chief of staff jailed 20 years for corruption

The ex-chief of staff of the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been jailed 20 years by a high court. Vital Kamerhe was...

Covid-19: Zimbabwe’s health minister arrested, charged for graft

Zimbabwe's Health Minister Obadiah Moyo has been arrested over corruption allegations related to procurement of medical equipment worth $60 million. Moyo is accused of illegally...

Ghana’s new law that jails citizens not wearing facemask 10 years

Ghanaians who fail to wear the face masks in compliance with a presidential directive risk going to jail for ten years. They also face a...
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