Nigeria's Anti-narcotics Agency, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, is urging political parties to make drug tests part of the screening requirements for aspirants seeking to contest political offices in the forthcoming general elections. Chairman of the agency, Retired Brig.-Gen.…

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS has been tasked to intensify its collaboration with Civil Society Organizations and relevant partners in the restoration of constitutional order in Burkina Faso, Guinea and Mali. This was the submission by the…

The Malian army has confirmed a series of attacks on bases in the country. At least six soldiers were killed and over a dozen more injured in coordinated attacks on three army bases in Mali. Atiewin Mbilla-Lawson reports.

The Education Association of Nigeria, EWAN on Monday mobilized other stakeholders in the country’s education sector to demand the immediate reopening of public universities in the country. The association, a body of journalists across print, broadcast and online media organisations,…

The trial hearing on the interests of the civil parties in the case of Thomas Sankara and his twelve companions opened on Monday, at the Ouagadougou military court.  While the Sankara family is asking for a symbolic franc, other victims’ families…