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Nigeria wades into Mali-Cote d’Ivoire rift

The Foreign Affairs minister of Nigeria has echoed comments that the 46 soldiers detained in Mali since July 9 are not mercenaries.  According to Geoffrey Onyeama, who gave an interview to the French media RFI and France24, he visited Bamako…

Unemployed nurses demonstrate in Ghana

A group calling itself the Coalition of Unemployed Graduate Nurses Assistants, Clinical and Preventive on Tuesday poured onto the streets of Tamale, protesting over what they say is a failure by government to post them since graduating in 2019. According…

Nigerian lawmakers meet over lecturer’s strike

Lawmakers in Nigeria on Tuesday met with university lecturers and other stakeholders over the seven months strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.  Speaker of the house, Femi Gbajabiamila who presided over the meeting, expressed worry over the…

Senegal’s president reshuffles cabinet

Senegal’s President Macky Sall in a cabinet reshuffle over the weekend sacked nearly a dozen ministers’ hours after he appointed Amadou Ba as prime minister of the republic. Ba, who was appointed earlier Saturday, has already announced a new 38-member…

Nigeria arrests ex-convict, others for peddling drugs

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has arrested an ex-convict, Onyeka Charles Madukolu at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos. NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi disclosed in a statement on Sunday, that the 44-year-old man was nabbed for importing…