•Togo flag Burkina Faso’s former transitional president and the alleged mastermind behind various coup plots in the country was arrested in neighbouring Togo and expelled, sources close to the case said yesterday. Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba was arrested last week in Lome and tried for “attempted destabilisation” in Burkina Faso before being ta...
Togo, Niger, and Benin owe Nigeria $17.8m, an equivalent of over N25 billion at the current exchange rate, for electricity supplied under bilateral arrangements, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has said. In its Third Quarter 2025 report, NERC disclosed that the three international customers were invoiced a total of $18.69m by th...
•A bus accident Five French citizens have died while on a charitable mission in West Africa after their bus crashed off a bridge in Togo, several sources told our correspondent yesterday. Confirming Tuesday’s road accident in the centre of the coastal nation, the Togolese government gave a toll of five dead and eight wounded, without […...
•President John Mahama of Ghana Ghana has deported at least six West Africans to Togo after they were expelled to Accra as part of an immigration crackdown by US President Donald Trump, their lawyers said today. Eleven deportees in total had sued the Ghanaian government to stop their further deportation, but one of their lawyers, […]
•Dangote Refinery Loading Bay Some fuel importers in the country have alleged that the Dangote refinery sells a litre of petrol to international traders at N65 cheaper than the amount it gives the product to marketers in Nigeria. The Depot and Petroleum Product Marketers Association of Nigeria, Petroleum Products Retail Outlet Owners Associati...
The House of Representatives, based on information received via diplomatic channels in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have cleared the Republic of Togo of allegations that its universities were issuing fake certificates to students, even as it has fixed July 10, 2025, to investigate universities from the Benin Republic. The...
•Electricity grid Benin Republic and Togo owe Nigeria $8.84m for the electricity consumed in the fourth quarter of 2024. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission revealed this in a report highlighting the remittances made by bilateral customers (domestic and international) and special customers for invoices issued in 2024/Q4 by the Marke...
Nigerian passengers aboard an Air France flight have been left stranded in Lomé, Togo, following a diversion caused by bad weather in Abuja. The Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo, raised the alarm over the situation in a statement posted on his official X account last night. Keyamo revealed that the Air France [&hel...
•Nigerian students Despite the federal government’s hammer on degrees obtained from universities in Togo and Benin Republic, Nigerian youth continue to seek higher education in these neighbouring French-speaking countries. This article reveals why the youths are undaunted by the government’s blacklist of certificates from such universities and...
•Tinubu The federal government has fired some civil servants with degrees from private tertiary institutions in Benin Republic and Togo. The directive affected federal workers who graduated from the institutions from 2017 to date, reports The PUNCH. The Director of Information and Public Relations in the Office of the Secretary to the Governme...
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