•Supreme Court of Ghana Ghana’s Supreme Court today rejected two bids to overturn a contested piece of legislation severely curtailing LGBTQ rights which was adopted by MPs earlier this year. “Until there is presidential assent to the bill, there is no act of which the Supreme Court will use its supervisory jurisdiction to overturn,” Avril [&h...
•Flags of some member-nations of ECOWAS The Economies of West African States (ECOWAS) has intensified efforts on practical arrangements for the launch of the single currency, ECO for the region following consensus reached in the implementation of the directives issued at its 65th Ordinary Session. This was revealed in a communiqué issued at th...
•INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu receiving Benin Republic electoral officials The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) today received a 12-member delegation from Benin Republic’s Autonomous National Electoral Commission (CENA) who visited on a study tour. INEC Chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, received the delegation from Benin Republic along...
•Tinubu Andel-Fatau Musah, ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, says the regional body, struggled financially before Nigeria’s payment of ₦85bn, $54m levy yesterday. “Up till last year, and the beginning of this year, we are cash-strapped at ECOWAS because much of the community levy remains with the member states. Tha...
(L-R ) The military leaders of Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré, Mali, Colonel Assimi Goita and Niger, General Abdourahmane Tchiani. The military junta of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger Republic will end their membership of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in January 2025, the regional bloc said yesterday. This is part of the [...
•Tinubu (L) at ECOWAS meeting Nigeria has paid its accrued debt owed the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to the tune of ₦85 billion. President of the ECOWAS Commission, Omar Touray, disclosed this in his statement at the opening of the 66th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and […]
•John Dramani Mahama Ghana’s former president John Dramani Mahama has won a historic comeback election victory today after voters appeared to punish the ruling New Patriotic Party over its management of an economic crisis. NPP candidate Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia today conceded defeat in the weekend presidential election after failing to ...
Ghana counted ballots yesterday after a tight election with the ruling party’s Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia trying to shake off anger over economic woes and rebuff a challenge by opposition party candidate ex-President John Mahama. Ghana’s struggling economy dominated the election, after the west Africa gold and cacao producer went through ...
•A voter casts his ballot at a polling station in Bole today Ghanaians are voting in elections today with frontrunners vice president and former central banker Mahamudu Bawumia and opposition ex-President John Mahama facing off in a closely fought race. Ghana’s struggling economy emerged as the dominant electoral issue after the West African g...
•Tinubu and Ramaphosa Many South Africans are kicking over the recent decision of President Cyril Ramaphosa to relax visa rules for Nigerian businessmen and tourists. Some are even asking Ramaphosa to resign for “selling” the country to Nigeria on the strength of a part of the deal that allows that category of Nigerians to apply […]...
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