In Ghana, the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) say fuel prices in the country are bound to surge, if factors influencing pricing do not change or stabilise.  Some of the factors include the increase of crude oil prices, damage caused by…

An Afrobarometer survey of the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD) has found that even though the majority of Ghanaians are tolerant of ethnicities other than theirs, “fewer than one in 10 (7%) are tolerant toward people in same-sex relationships”. This…

In Ghana, the Registrar General’s Department has announced plans to commence the delisting of 3,100 companies from their records this month. This is accounts for part of more than 100,000 companies that are set to be delisted by the end…

Senegal’s Minister of the Civil Service and the Renewal of the Public Service, Mariama Sarr, announced on Monday the resumption of negotiations between the government and the teachers' unions. She said the resumption of dialogue was instructed by the President…

The man at the center of bribery allegations in the ongoing war crimes trial of ex-RUF spokesman, Gibril Massaquoi took the witness stand on Monday, and denied the allegations against him. Recall that last week, a third defence witness took…

The Liberia National Police has arrested a stalwart of the opposition Alternative National Congress Party Jethro Kangar for allegedly spreading misinformation of an alleged ritual killing on Facebook. Police in Liberia recently threatened to arrest social media users bent on…

Resident Doctors in Nigeria under National Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, called off their 63-day industrial action.  Recall that the association had earlier resolved to  suspend the action after hours of deliberations at its National Executive Council,NEC, meeting held in…

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to “urgently withdraw the impermissible conditions imposed on Twitter pending the final determination of the suit at the ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja.  According to SERAP, the…

Social media giants–Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are back online after a widespread outage on Monday, October 4, 2021. The social media apps were offline for about six hours. They used Twitter to update their subscribers on the development. The outage…