[Premium Times] APC won four seats while PDP picked two in last Saturday's bye-elections conducted in four of Nigeria's six geo-political zones

[VOA] Abuja, Nigeria -- Nigeria has agreed to supply natural gas to Equatorial Guinea at Nigeria's International Energy Summit in Abuja. African energy experts are urging quick implementation of the gas deal amid high demand and supply disruptions ca...

[Chatham House] Ukraine draws focus away from Africa's conflict hotspots, a key concern at the AU and UN Joint Strategic Assessment on Security in the Sahel high-level consultation.

[Ghana Presidency] The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has inaugurated the new Governing Board of the Ghana AIDS Commission with a charge to the new Board to ensure that the strategic goals of the National HIV and AIDS Plan 2021-2025 are achieve...

[Premium Times] According to the new dress code, female police are permitted to wear stud earrings, and headscarf under their berets or peak caps as the case may be while in uniform.

[Premium Times] The company says the current low and unstable supply of electricity to homes and businesses is as a result of low power generated to the national grid.

[Premium Times] Mr Echono will take over from the incumbent, Suleiman Bogoro, whose five-year tenure ends on March 18.

[Premium Times] The 2009 FG-ASUU agreement has been a source of the protracted industrial dispute between the government and the lecturers' union.

[Premium Times] A woman narrated to the Abuja #EndSARS panel how some of the summoned police officers allegedly kidnapped her husband and eventually killed him in 2013.

[Premium Times] BBC Hausa Service reported an unnamed associate of the former governor saying that he is leaving the PDP due to a crisis in the Kano chapter of the party.

[Vanguard] The first set of 411 Nigerians, escaping the ongoing war in Ukraine, have arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja.

[Premium Times] It is 21 days to the crucial first leg encounter against Ghana at the Cape Coast Stadium.

[African Arguments] Seeing that getting access to COVID-19 vaccines was such a tall order, one polio survivor decided to do something about it.

[allAfrica] After Paris announced the withdrawal of its troops from Mali on February 17, 2022, along with the reorganisation of its military force Barkhane, and of the European Force "Takuba", the country has now decided to freeze its civil cooperati...

[Premium Times] Our analysis of wildlife crimes data, supported by numerous interviews, finds evidence of systematic failure by Nigerian law enforcement and the judicial system to hold wildlife poachers and traffickers accountable.

[VOA] Yaounde -- Anglophone separatists in Cameroon have claimed responsibility for an attack Wednesday that killed seven people, including a senior official and a mayor. Cameroon's military says the officials were on a tour to raise support against ...

[DW] German prosecutors have accused a Gambian man of being involved in killing dissidents during the rule of strongman leader Yahya Jammeh. The suspect allegedly drove members of a paramilitary squad to kill sites.

[Premium Times] The GTI report said Boko Haram was responsible for only 69 deaths in Nigeria in 2021, a decrease of 77 per cent from the previous year.

[Premium Times] The bill seeks to make it mandatory for public officers to secure the approval of the Minister of Education before sending their children or wards to foreign schools.

[Premium Times] The power minister cites low hydro capacity during the dry season and maintenance work at gas plants.7

[Nigeria Health Watch] For any person seeking to ascertain how well a Primary Health Centre (PHC) operates, the best people to speak to are the health workers in the facility, as well as the patients, preferably pregnant women, who use it more freque...

[Ghanaian Times] The commencement of the trial of the General Overseer of the Glorious Word Power Ministry, Rev Isaac OwusuBempah, and six others, could not take place before the Accra Circuit Court as planned.

[Ghanaian Times] The non-release of funds to undertake the comprehensive integrity audit of all public buildings and structures in the country, to check their capability to withstand earthquakes has stalled the project, Registrar of the Engineering C...

[Ghanaian Times] The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has reported to Parliament that 80 per cent of trees planted under the Green Ghana Project in 2021 are doing well.

[Ghanaian Times] Yesterday was observed as World Hearing Day, an event the World Health Organisation (WHO) established in 2007 to create awareness of hearing loss.

[Ghanaian Times] The Hearing Assessment Centre of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) in Accra, has appealed to government to provide hearing assistive devices for patients with hearing losses and apply some tax waivers as medical products.

[Ghanaian Times] The Ghana National Association of the Deaf (GNAD) has called on government to resource existing hearing, screening and assessment centres across the country, including those in schools for the deaf, to make them more efficient and ef...

[Ghanaian Times] Sunyani -- The Police in Techiman in the Bono East Region yesterday arrested three suspects believed to be involved in robbery cases in the area.

[Ghanaian Times] Wa -- The Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the Upper West Region is poised to reduce maternal mortality in the region to ensure that pregnant women delivered safely.

[Ghanaian Times] An award scheme to encourage Assembly Members to play leading roles in the development of their various areas had been launched in Accra.