While reported measles cases have fallen compared to previous years, progress toward measles elimination continues to decline and the risk of outbreaks is mounting, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and U.S. Centers for Disease…

ECOWAS experts have is engaged in a three day meeting to review and validate the draft Supplementary Act Setting the Conditions and Modalities for Community Levy Implementation and Management. The meeting was held in Accra and once this is approved,…

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured that Nigeria is on the right path to achieving multi-sectoral progress, saying he has revitalised Nigeria’s economy, built massive infrastructure, uplifted the living standards of Nigerians. The President gave the assurance on Wednesday in Paris…

Liberia is expected to return to the International Maritime Organization Council, the governing body of international Maritime Affairs. In 2019, Liberia lost its seat at the IMO Council to Kuwait in the Council elections held in London, however, President George…

Ghana's Keta Municipal Assembly at an emergency Municipal Security meeting on Wednesday, placed a ban on sand mining activities at its beaches with immediate effect and until further notice. The ban is part of measures adopted by the municipal assembly,…

Youth in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, on Wednesday, staged a peaceful protest to the Federal Capital Territory Administration demanding for a better federal capital territory.  The Youths presented a 10 point demand to the administration with a two week ultimatum for…

In Nigeria, the Senate on Wednesday approved President Muhammadu Buhari’s external borrowing request in the sum of $16,230,077,718, and €1,020,000,000. The upper chamber also approved a grant component of $125 million. Imoh Edet reports

In Liberia, the Senate Joint Committees on Maritime, Defense Intelligence, Security and Veteran Affairs have forwarded several recommendations to Plenary for onward submission to the Executive from its investigative findings into circumstances that led to the sinking of the Niko…

535 Guinean police officials have been retired by transition leader Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya. According to a decree read on television, the officers have been asked to proceed on leave either for age limit or length of service. Abdulahi Hassan reports

A self-confessed member of the terrorist group, Boko Haram, Abdulsalam Adinoyi, has been sentenced to death by hanging. The sentence was handed down by Lekan Ogunmoye, a judge of Ekiti State High Court, in Ado Ekiti on Wednesday. Adinoyi was charged and…