Sierra Leone’s Parliament this week passed into law the country’s first Student Loan Scheme Bill 2021; a legislation which according to the Minister of Technical and Higher Education, Professor Alpha Tejan Wurie is to ensure more pupils access tertiary education…

The Ghana card is set to be recognized as an electronic passport in 197 countries by 2022, the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has disclosed. Delivering a public lecture on the digital economy at Ashesi University on Tuesday, November 2,…

The head of the Junta ruling Guinea, Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya’s efforts to clean up the country’s military, has been eliciting reactions across the country. More than a thousand soldiers have been sent into retirement since Monday. According to the head…

At the COP26 which brings together parties to accelerate action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, UN chief Antonio Guterres say, enough is enough! Countries must act now to "save humanity"…

Liberian President George Weah has alarmed over what he described as an inequality distribution of resources under the climate fund program. He said it was sad to note that country like Liberia who maintain and protect one of the largest…

Ghana's Minister for Communications and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful has hinted that plans are underway to introduce a mobile application that will aid self-registration in the ongoing national SIM card registration exercise. The compulsory SIM card registration exercise begun in the…

Suspected hoodlums on Monday laid siege to the Lagos High Court sitting in Tafawa Balewa Square claiming that one of their members was shot by prison warders from the Kirikiri correctional centre. They demobilised two Black Maria vehicles that had…

The invasion of the residence of the Nigerian Supreme Court Judge, Justice Mary Odili by yet-to-be-identified security operatives has raised concern among members of the Senate. Chairman of the Senate Committee on Judiciary Senator Opeyemi Bamidele says the matter will…