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The United States government has issued visa restriction threats to Ghana for failure to issue travel documents to over 7000 Ghanaian citizens awaiting deportation from the U.S. The U.S. Embassy in Ghana issued the threats in a statement on Thursday explaining that the Ghana government failed to meet its ICAO [International Civil Aviation Organisation] obligation regarding theContinue reading “U.S. threatens Ghana for non-compliance with deportation of 7,000 Ghanaians”

Nigerians have received with great joy the admission into the Nigerian Bar Association of a brave hijabi law graduate who was kicked out of a call to bar ceremony in December 2017 for refusing to remove her hijab. The graduate of the University of Ilorin, Amasa Firdaus, was denied entry into the hall and denied a callContinue reading “Brave Nigerian lawyer denied call to bar for wearing hijab gets second chance”

A woman who claims to be the mother of Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, has for the first time opened up about her son who has led the militant group that has killed and displaced thousands of people in the country’s northeast. Falmata Abubakar met with VOA reporters in a village called Shekau in the Nigerian stateContinue reading “Mother of most wanted Nigerian criminal, Abubakar Shekau, opens up”

The only two oil-producing countries in East Africa, Kenya, and Uganda are nurturing their ambitions of exporting crude oil to boost their economies which are hit by sporadic fuel shortages and power outages. Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta flagged off four trucks carrying the country’s first oil resource from the Ngamia 8 oil fields in TurkanaContinue reading “East African nations plan to export oil as citizens face sporadic fuel shortages”

Two African presidents have donated portions of their salaries to development funds in their countries ahead of Africa Day which fell on May 25, 2018. The first to announce his decision was the South African president Cyril Ramaphosa who announced last Wednesday that he will donate half of his presidential salary to a fund thatContinue reading “Two African presidents join five others to donate salaries to development funds”