Ghanaians have expressed confidence the forthcoming presidential elections will be peaceful, free and fair. Ghana will hold the election on December 7. About 17 people are…
Browsing: West Africa Politics
West Africa Politics Live as they happen on News Central
On Monday, 7th of December, West Africa’s second-biggest economy, Ghana will elect its President. The election, the 8th consecutive one since 1992, has 12 candidates contesting…
The Nigerian government has secured the extradition of a former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Mr Abdulrasheed Maina, who jumped bail and…
Alieu Kosiah, a former commander of the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy (ULIMO) faction, on Thursday, appeared before a court in Switzerland over war…
The remains of deceased former President of Ghana, Jerry John Rawlings, will be buried on December 23, his family has said. James Victor Gbeho, Head of…
President Nana Addo Akufo-Addo of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) will face former president John Dramani Mahama, leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), in…
A Nigerian lawmaker, Victor Mela, was on Friday sentenced to one month in prison by a Magistrate Court in Wuse, Zone 6, Abuja. Mela, who is…
President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré of Burkina Faso has been re-elected to lead the West African nation for another five years. Preliminary results from the National…
President Muhammadu Buhari will set Nigeria on fire if he chooses to turn a deaf ear to Nigerians’ demands, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State said…
Senator Elisha Abbo, a lawmaker from Adamawa State, Northeast Nigeria has defected from Nigeria’s opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling party, the…