
For the first time since 2010, Nigeria’s Budget Office of the Federation (BOF), under the Bola Tinubu-led regime, has failed to publish the...
ByMayowa DurosinmiAugust 20, 2025Damning US public records obtained by West Africa Weekly have revealed that Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, secretly acquired a...
ByMayowa DurosinmiAugust 19, 2025West Africa’s biggest stars are leaving an identifiable visual mark on carpets, stages, and magazine covers. Behind the razor-sharp tailoring, silhouette statements, and...
ByIkenna ChurchillAugust 19, 2025President John Mahama has granted amnesty to 998 prisoners serving various sentences across the country’s prisons. The decision, announced in a statement by...
ByOluwasegun SanusiAugust 19, 2025FIFA is considering staging the Club World Cup every two years from 2029, a proposal that could reshape the global football calendar but...
ByChinalurumogu EzeAugust 18, 2025As the Sahel steadily moves away from imperial and neocolonial influence, France, backed by its state-owned media outlet France24, has once again resorted...
ByMayowa DurosinmiAugust 18, 2025In a Hollywood surprise, YouTube reportedly approached the Academy Awards about obtaining the rights to present them. This would represent a huge shift...
ByIkenna ChurchillAugust 18, 2025The body of Burkinabè activist Alain Christophe Traoré, widely known as Alino Faso, is expected to arrive in Ouagadougou today after weeks of...
ByOluwasegun SanusiAugust 18, 2025Nigeria’s two most critical transport projects, the Third Mainland Bridge and the Lagos–Benin Expressway, have become national disgrace projects, riddled with waste and...
ByWest Africa WeeklyAugust 16, 2025Mali’s military government says it has foiled a coup plot and arrested a French national accused of working with foreign agents to destabilise...
ByChinalurumogu EzeAugust 15, 2025Chad is moving closer to full integration with the Confederation of Sahel States (CSS) through plans to host a regional security coordination centre...
ByOluwasegun SanusiAugust 15, 2025An injectable birth control drug, medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA), widely known as Depo-Provera and marketed globally as Sayana Press, is at the centre of...
ByWest Africa WeeklyAugust 14, 2025