Nigeria's Senate has constituted an Ad Hoc Committee to investigate, oil company, Shell Plc over alleged illegal extensions of oil exploration leases. The Senate said the decision to investigate Shell PLC follows the non-payment of 200 million US dollars accruals…

Former Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, the mediator from the Economic Community of West African States ECOWAS is expected to arrive in the country later today, Thursday.  Reports from Bamako, suggest that the former Nigerian President will meet with the transitional…

Experts in Ghana’s Petroleum downstream sector are predicting an increase in the commodity this week as prices on the world market continue to witness a corresponding rise.  The increase which is expected by the weekend is falling outside the designated…

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Liberia says the illegal importation of chemicals by artisanal miners in the country is a threat to the environment. Speaking Thursday in plenary of the House of Representatives, the EPA Boss Professor Wilson Tarpeh…

The United Nations International Organization for Migration and other partners have commenced a mitigation project aimed at tackling farmer-herder conflicts in Nigeria’s North Eastern state of Adamawa. The project tagged “Contributing to the Mitigation of Conflict over Natural Resources between Farmer…

In Burkina Faso, four people, including a regional administrative official, were abducted by unidentified gunmen in Fada N'Gourma, capital of the eastern region. The Burkinabe news agency AIB announced the abduction on Thursday citing a local official. According to him,…