The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has acquired the Cessna Grand Caravan EX-208B, a utility aircraft, to support its “surveillance capabilities.” Adewale Adeniyi, the...
ByMayowa DurosinmiOctober 7, 2024Burkina Faso has introduced a new digital platform that centralises over 11,000 laws and regulations from various ministries and institutions. The platform was...
ByEmmanuel EjioforOctober 4, 2024Zambia is grappling with its worst electricity shortages, with blackouts lasting up to three days in some areas. The country, which relies heavily...
ByEmmanuel EjioforOctober 3, 2024Uganda commissioned its largest electricity generation facility, the 600-megawatt Karuma Hydropower Project. The $1.7 billion project, primarily financed through a loan from China,...
ByEmmanuel EjioforSeptember 27, 2024X, formerly Twitter, has updated its block feature to let blocked accounts see public posts. An app researcher, Nima Owji, recently discovered this...
ByConfidence UbaniSeptember 24, 2024Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Information has budgeted the sum of N58 million for the digitisation of items such as cash books, vote books,...
ByOluwatobi OdeyinkaSeptember 6, 2024Ghana has signed a deal with a United States company to build its first nuclear power plant using NuScale Power’s small modular reactor...
ByEmmanuel EjioforAugust 30, 2024Amid the widespread safety concerns raised by whistleblowers, the Boeing Company and Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development have signed a...
ByMayowa DurosinmiAugust 29, 2024One of West Africa Weekly’s reporter on Monday, August 26, received a phishing e-mail from one “Anitha Jacobs” who want a donation to...
ByMayowa DurosinmiAugust 28, 2024Senegal has successfully launched its first satellite, GAINDESAT-1A, into orbit, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced late Friday. The satellite was launched on Friday...
ByEmmanuel EjioforAugust 17, 2024The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) official X (formerly Twitter) handle, @officialEFCC, has vanished from the platform, leaving its 2.2 million followers...
ByOluwasegun SanusiAugust 15, 2024A fraudulent website, Alatbywema.com, has been created to scam users of AlatByWema, a digital banking platform by Wema Bank. As reported by the...
ByConfidence UbaniAugust 7, 2024