West Africa

Nigerian Police Inspector General, Usman Baba, issued a warning to film producers who used to portray police officers in a bad light, without prior permission. Inspector General Usman Baba says movie scenes of actors in police uniforms must now be approved as set out in law and defaulters will be …

Ghana’s gender minister, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has been relieved of her duties after more than a year of continuous absence from work. The presidency did not state the exact reason for her sacking in a press release, but it could be due to her continuous absence, which has raised concerns …

A supposed phone seller was arrested by the police in Grand-Yoff (commune of Dakar) following the complaint of his girlfriend’s mother, reports seneweb.com. The respondent sent his 16-year-old girlfriend to prostitute herself with a 53-year-old French national at the price of 50,000F CFA, the sexual intercourse. The young man was …

At least 18 people, including 15 members of the Malian security forces, have been killed in coordinated attacks in the southwest of the country where jihadist insurgency is raging, the army said. Assaults on military camps in Sokolo and near Kalumba were repulsed with almost 50 militants being killed. A …

Nigerian education authorities have decided to close one of the colleges in the capital, Abuja, citing fears of attack by armed gangs. The education ministry said the closure of the Federal Government College in the city’s suburb of Kwali became necessary over insecurity in nearby villages. According to the ministry, …

Few days after the attack on an advance convoy of President Muhammadu Buhari in Katsina State, terrorist group Islamic State, in the West Africa Province (ISWAP), issued serious threats to the place of Nigerian number 1. Terrorists of the ISWAP group are determined to sow terror in Nigeria. In a …

Ghana has recorded one more death from the Marburg virus bringing to three the number of deaths since the outbreak of the virus began here. The victim is a relative of one of the first two cases. Marburg is a highly infectious disease in the same family as Ebola and …

A video of a group of commercial motorcyclists (Okada riders) forcibly bathing their colleague who had allegedly not taken his bath for six months has emerged, Pulse reported. The footage that has gone viral on social media shows the motorcyclists grabbing their fellow rider and pouring buckets of water on him, while …

Heavy gunfire was heard early on Friday at the main military base outside Mali’s capital Bamako before easing after about an hour, in what residents of the camp said they believed was an attack by Islamist militants, several media reported. Helicopters have been circling overhead and there are reports that …

At least 17 people, including five police officers were killed in the Nigerian state of Katsina, during distinct attacks of armed men, local authorities said. About 300 armed men on motorbikes targeted a police post in Kankara on Wednesday, shooting the officers dead. They also killed at least three people …