Sierra Leone is to start producing iron rods and other metal related materials with the construction of the country's first iron refinery industry underway on the outskirts of the capital city – Freetown. As Patrick Sallia reports, an agreement was…

Ghana’s chair for civic education is to leave her position later this year to pick up a new job with the Economic Community for West Africa States,  ECOWAS.  Josephine Nkrumah worked with the national commission for civic education in Ghana…

The government of Liberia has announced the introduction of a drug revolving fund policy in rural Liberia.   According to Liberian Health Minister Wilhelmina Jallah, unlike previous years when Liberians were provided free medication at government run-health centers, patients accessing…

A bill seeking more seats for women in the National Assembly of the Gambia has been dumped at the second reading on Monday. The bill failed to proceed to the third and final reading as members did not meet the…

The National Association of Nigeria Students, NANS, has issued a one-week ultimatum to the Nigerian Government to resolve its disagreement with the country’s university lecturers’ union, ASUU or face a national mass action by all Nigerian students across the country.…

Students in The Gambia risk missing both the West Africa Senior Secondary Secondary Schools Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and the Gambia Basic Education Certificate Examination (GABECE) this year due to arrears owed to the West African Examination Council (WAEC), the government…

Four operatives of Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps and some residents of Galadima Kogo, a village in  Shiroro Local government area of Niger state, north-central Nigeria, have been killed in a bomb blast.   The bomb incident which occurred on…

At least sixty people were reportedly killed on a gold panning site in Burkina Faso. The incident on Monday followed an explosion of a dynamite warehouse on a Gomgombiro gold panning site in Gbomblora, a village located about fifteen kilometers…

Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan believes the challenges confronting the ECOWAS region are surmountable. Dr. Jonathan, who spoke at the council of the wise meeting in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, noted that the crisis rocking the region are not new…