President Akufo-Addo has placed a temporary ban on all Ministers of State and their deputies at least for the next one month except travels motivated by serious medical emergencies. This will be the second of its kind since he assumed…

The United Kingdom has added Nigeria to its red list category as it tightens travel restrictions in an effort to limit the spread of the COVID-19 variant, Omicron. This means Nigerians who do not have UK citizenship or residence permit…

Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has criticized the travel bans issued against some African countries because of the Omicron strain of the coronavirus. He described the bans as instruments of immigration control. President Akufo-Addo was speaking when he addressed a joint…

Senegal has recorded its first case of the omicron variant, becoming the third West African nation to detect the new coronavirus variant after Nigeria and Ghana. The announcement was made by the Institute for Health Research, Epidemiological Surveillance and Training…

The government of Liberia is calling on striking University lecturers to return to classes. Lecturers at the State-run University of Liberia announced an indefinite go-slow after the government reportedly refused to implement an existing MOU entered into between the lecturers,…

Armed men on Saturday released some 65 members of the Baptist church and others who were kidnapped in Kaduna State North-Western Nigeria.  The victims were kidnapped on October 31 when the bandits invaded the Emmanuel Baptist Church, Kakau Daji in…

The Coalition of Commercial Transport Owners has announced its intention to embark on a nationwide indefinite strike beginning Monday, November 6 as part of measures to compel the government to scrap some taxes on fuel to enable reduction at the…