The Federal Republic of Nigeria, as the country today, celebrates 2024 Democracy Day, despite variety of issues affecting the citizens. On June 12, 1993, exactly 31 years ago, some 14 million Nigerians went to the polls to elect a new…

Civil society organizations in Guinea are calling for the release of former dignitaries of the Alpha Condé regime who are under judicial supervision of These organizations denounce the instrumentalization of the Court of Repression of Economic and Financial Offenses by…

The Senegalese government has welcomed a high Chinese delegation seeking to examine investment opportunities in various sectors but energy in particular. More than 50 entrepreneurs are on the team. Their arrival in Dakar, the capital is at a time when…

Forty people abducted from the Kuchi community in Munya Local Government Area of Niger State, North Central Nigeria, have been freed by their captors.  The release comes after the community paid a ransom of nearly thirty-three thousand dollars and handed…

President Bola Tinubu of Nigeria is expected to address the nation later today to mark June 12 – Democracy Day. On this day in 1993, some 14 million Nigerians went to the polls to elect a new president to end…

The Beninese government has imposed a six-month temporary ban on the export of grains and tubers to neighbouring countries. In a decree adopted by the council minister, Cotonou intends to promote the country’s food self-sufficiency. The decree was endorsed by…

The Global Fund has issued a final warning, to stop providing any form of funding to Ghana by the end of June this year, if the country fails to clear over 120 containers of essential drugs that have been stuck…

At least three thousand United States dollars worth of narcotic drugs have been discovered in the intestine of a 37-year-old man while undergoing surgery at the government’s largest referral health facility in Monrovia.   The suspect, who is said to be…