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Liberia Awards Starlink One-Year License To Provide Internet Across Country
The Liberia Telecommunication Authority (LTA) has announced that Starlink, owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, has been granted a one-year provisional license to provide...
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Despite Ignoring Smuggling Scandal, Nigeria Customs Service Acquires Surveillance Aircraft
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has acquired the Cessna Grand Caravan EX-208B, a utility aircraft, to support its “surveillance capabilities.” Adewale Adeniyi, the...
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Burkina Faso Launches Digital Platform Containing Over 11,000 Laws Of Ministries, Institutions
Burkina Faso has introduced a new digital platform that centralises over 11,000 laws and regulations from various ministries and institutions. The platform was...
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Zambia’s Electricity Crisis Worsens As Over-Reliance On Hydropower Backfires
Zambia is grappling with its worst electricity shortages, with blackouts lasting up to three days in some areas. The country, which relies heavily...
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Uganda Commissions $1.7 Billion Hydropower Plant Financed By China
Uganda commissioned its largest electricity generation facility, the 600-megawatt Karuma Hydropower Project. The $1.7 billion project, primarily financed through a loan from China,...
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X Updates Block Feature, Allows Blocked Accounts to View Public Posts
X, formerly Twitter, has updated its block feature to let blocked accounts see public posts. An app researcher, Nima Owji, recently discovered this...
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Information Ministry To Spend N58 million On Digitisation of Cash Books Registers
Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Information has budgeted the sum of N58 million for the digitisation of items such as cash books, vote books,...
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Ghana To Build Its First Small-Scale Nuclear Reactor After Signing Deal
Ghana has signed a deal with a United States company to build its first nuclear power plant using NuScale Power’s small modular reactor...
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Amid Widespread Whistleblower Safety Concerns, Boeing and Nigeria Sign MoU To Strengthen Aviation Sector
Amid the widespread safety concerns raised by whistleblowers, the Boeing Company and Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Aviation and Aerospace Development have signed a...
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SCAM Alert: Don’t Fall For ‘Anitha Jacobs’ E-Mail
One of West Africa Weekly’s reporter on Monday, August 26, received a phishing e-mail from one “Anitha Jacobs” who want a donation to...
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Senegal Launches First Satellite Into Orbit
Senegal has successfully launched its first satellite, GAINDESAT-1A, into orbit, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye announced late Friday. The satellite was launched on Friday...
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EFCC’s X (Twitter) Page Disappears After Supposed Threats by Suspected Internet Fraudsters
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) official X (formerly Twitter) handle, @officialEFCC, has vanished from the platform, leaving its 2.2 million followers...