News link 2021-09-13 Third Edition
News link 2021-09-13 Third Edition
News link 2021-09-13 Third Edition
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has promised to provide financial support through its biosphere reserve fund, to address issues of environmental challenges on the African continent. Director-General of the organisation, Audrey Azoulay, made the pledge on…
Prosecutors investigating, Gibril Massaquoi, a former Sierra Leonean warlord for war crimes he allegedly committed during the Liberian civil war in 2003, have returned to Monrovia, to hear additional witnesses. The team returned to Monrovia after the defense counsel indicted…
Ghana’s president Nana Akufo-Addo, has served notice that those avoiding tax payments will be dealt with. According to the head of State, 60,000 professionals in the country’s workforce have not been complying with tax laws. The President made this known during the 2021…
The Gambia Health Ministry has received 20 of 80 ambulances to be used for community ambulance services. The purchase of the ambulances is part of the health ministry’s drive to provide easy mobility and reduce maternal mortality. President Adama Barrow during…
In Liberia, some students writing this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Exams have been busted with photocopies and other materials of the exams at some of the schools. An estimated 43 thousand 12th graders have commenced the writing of the exams…
Sierra Leone's President Juluis Maada Bio on Wednesday launched the Global Fund and approved grants for his country to the tune of 157 million dollars. The funds will shore up the country’s fight against AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and COVID and will run from 2021 to…
In Senegal, the Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Posts (ARTP) has taken the lead in the fight against any health risk related to non-ionizing radiation (NIR). Assessing the exposure to danger and the importance of the risk in order to…
Nigeria’s government has approved the National Policy on the fifth-generation (5G) network. This is according to the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, who addressed journalists in Abuja after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday. He…
A seven-member delegation from the Gambia on a five-day ICT study tour in Ghana has called on Communications Minister Ursula Owusu Ekuful. The delegation, led by the Gambian Minister of Information and Communication Infrastructure Ebrima Sillah included the Director General…
The State Security Service, SSS in Nigeria, has filed five terrorism charges against two associates of Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, at the Federal High Court in Abuja. Jamiu Oyetunji and Amudat Babatunde were accused…
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) of the Gambia has announced a nomination date for the upcoming presidential election in December. The electoral commission has also announced the campaign period for the election while December 4 remains the date for the…