Following the widespread recent service disruption recorded after undersea cable cuts disrupted connectivity in many countries in the region, Nigeria has called for a coordinated and...
President Bola Tinubu on Sunday implored West African leaders to prioritise good governance and collective prosperity in their various countries. The president, according to a statement...
Few weeks ago the First Lady of Sierra Leone, Fatima Maada Bio, had caused a controversy in the United States when she declared recklessly during a...
A former President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan has bemoaned the recurring coups within the West African subregion as a threat to democracy. Jonathan stated this at...
After many years of colonialism by the French, the English, the Portuguese and the Belgians many African countries gained independence in a blaze of glory in...
The United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, on Friday commended President Muhammadu Buhari for his leadership roles in the West African sub-region and the continent as a...
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has disclosed that Nigeria accounts for about 11 per cent of unregistered children in West Africa. Speaking in a statement...
Michael Blackson, a Hollywood actor of Ghanaian-descent has taken to social media to urge African leaders to fix the continent. The actor and comedian stated that...
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami, on Wednesday urged Information and Communication Technology (ICT) experts across West Africa to be ambitious towards...
President Muhammadu Buhari has attributed the spate of insecurity spreading across most parts of West Africa to mercenaries of the late Muammar Gaddafi of Libya. Buhari...
The West African Health Organisation (WAHO) has stated that Nigeria and four other countries account for over 80 per cent of COVID-19 cases in West Africa....
The United Kingdom has intensified military support in the West African sub region to combat the world’s fastest growing Islamist-led insurgency which has claimed countless of...
The British independent oil and gas company, Savannah Petroleum Plc, has announced its completion of acquisition of assets of the Seven Energy International Limited (SEIL) in...
No fewer than nine sailors of a Norway-based shipping company have been abducted by gunmen off the coast of Benin Republic. According to the shipping firm,...
Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, on Wednesday distanced himself from an alleged ploy by some governors in Progressives Governors Forum to oust the National chairman...
The Nigeria Police Force has announced the arrest of 38 persons suspected to be involved in Kidnapping and banditry in the Northwest. According to the force,...
The Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, has said that Nigeria will exporting excess quantum of electricity that is unutilised in the country to other other West...
The upcoming handover of a $4.5 billion Seme border facility to Nigeria and the Republic of Benin has increased hopes of smoother trade across West Africa...
Gambian President Adama Barrow Tuesday said President Muhammadu Buhari was key to the ouster of Yahya Jammeh, former president of the country, during the political crisis...
The Red Cross says it has uncovered several cases of fraud by officials during efforts to combat the Ebola epidemic that hit West Africa between 2014...
The World Bank has ranked Nigeria in fourth position among West African countries in its Global Trade Logistics Performance Index (LPI) for 2016. Leading the pack...
The World Bank will in the next three years invest about $57.3 billion in the West African subregion, aimed at stimulating growth. And Nigeria tops the...
Defiant President of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh has declared while delivering a New Year’s speech that he is ready to defend his country against external aggression after...
Airline operators have threatened to suspend flights pending when the government would provide modern landing aids that would enable them fly with minimum visibility as obtained...
The West African country of Gambia has announced it is quitting the International Criminal Court (ICC) after accusing the world body of ignoring the “war crimes”...
Abundant rainfall in 2015, and early part of 2016, plus other inputs have soared cocoa production level of Ivory Coast over other countries in West Africa....
Over half a million protesters thronged the streets of Conakry, Guinea in protests over alleged government corruption as one man was shot dead and 12 others...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says, if Nigeria reduces assistance to it, the community would find it difficult to survive most challenges facing...
According to a military source, militant group, Boko Haram has recaptured the town of Bosso in the south-eastern part of Niger in West Africa after clashes...
Authorities in Ivory Coast have arrested a man linked with attacks at the Grand Bassam Hotel which witnessed the killing of 19 people at the beach...
As a precaution against the spread of Ebola following the death of four people, Liberia closed its border with Guinea on Tuesday. Guinea Information Minister...
Citing recent terror attacks, the Pentagon, United States military on Wednesday restricted its service members’ from travelling to five West African countries. The order limits unofficial...
President Muhammadu Buhari and his Liberian counterpart, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, on Tuesday said both countries will ensure the conduct of free and fair elections in five...
