DAKAR, Senegal — Lawmakers from the West African regional bloc ECOWAS have called on member states to ring-fence at least five per cent of their national...
NDIOB, Senegal — For decades, a failing power grid has choked economic growth across West Africa. In rural communities, millions remain entirely cut off from...
Nigeria’s electoral body says it is fully prepared for the upcoming governorship election in Ekiti State, but has warned that “fake news” and...
Nigeria has become more deeply fractured than it was two decades ago, with politics, ethnicity, and faith driving a wedge between citizens and severely...
The former head of Nigeria’s electoral body, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has arrived in the Qatari capital, Doha, to officially assume his duties as...
Nigeria’s electoral body says more than one million people are registered to vote in this weekend’s crucial governorship election in the south-western state of...
Electricity in rural West Africa must be treated as an economic engine rather than a mere household amenity, experts have warned regional lawmakers. Speaking...
West Africa has set its sights on a major green transition, targeting a 48% renewable energy share by 2030 to tackle widespread power outages and drive...
An appeals court in Nigeria has heavily criticised a lower court judge for what it described as “the highest form of judicial impertinence” after...
Nigerian troops have rescued the wife of a deceased senior military general weeks after the couple was abducted by armed gangs in the country’s north-west. Mrs...