A Lawmaker from The Gambia, Fatmata Njai has called on the ECOWAS parliament to reject lists from member states that fall short of the thirty percent women’s representation. Speaking on the side lines of the Opening Ceremony of the Fifth…

Thousands of residents in Abidjan and other parts of Ivory Coast are struggling to cope with a power outage which has gone on for days. The supply of electricity has been disrupted following incidents on the high-voltage interconnected network. In…

Amnesty International has blamed the Federal Government for failure to learn from the Chibok attack and protect school children from attacks. Seven years since Boko Haram gunmen seized 276 girls aged between 12 and 17 from the Government Girls Secondary…

Workers of the Electricity Company of Ghana are agitating, asking for the removal of their Managing Director, Mr Kwame Agyeman-Budu. According to the workers, mainly from the junior and senior staff association, Mr Agyeman-Budu was is mismanaging the company hence…

Civilians are fleeing into Niger Republic after gunmen attacked and occupied Damasak town, Borno state in northeast Nigeria on Wednesday. Reports on the ground say this is the third attack in a week and the second in 24 hours —…

In Sierra Leone, the Human Rights Commission has accused police of abuse during Monday’s student protest against their exclusion from graduation. On Monday, students of the Institutes of Public Administration and Management {IPAM} – one of the constituent Colleges of…

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari returned to Nigeria on Thursday from the United Kingdom where he went on medical vacation for two weeks. His Personal Assistant Bashir Ahmad via twitter announced the return of President Buhari. Usaman Umar in Abuja reports.