‘Ghanaian Cocaine Woman’ Saga: British High Commission Muddies The Waters

A new twist to the controversy surrounding how a Ghanaian woman managed to smuggle 12 kilos of cocaine to the UK through the Kotoka International Airport has emerged.

Nigeria loses N27bn to gas flaring in one month

Nigeria lost about $170.166 million, around N27.227 billion to gas flaring in one month, as oil and gas companies flared 39.07 billion Standard Cubic Feet (SCF) of gas in the month of August 2014. 
Quoting data from the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), Bloomberg put the price of natural gas at $4.27 per million British Thermal Unit (BTU) of gas...Read More

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Chris Attoh And Fiancée Damilola Adegbite Hold A Naming Ceremony For Their First Child

In Africa, a name isn’t just a name.  It’s part of your identity.  

It speaks to who you are, when you were born, the circumstances surrounding your birth, and most important, where you come from. In Ghana, a person’s name tells their ethnicity and their religion. For these reasons, a name is not chosen by accident; much consideration is put into it. And so it’s only fitting that we have a ceremony surrounding the blessed occasion of the conferring of a name upon a baby. 

Ferguson riots: Ruling sparks night of violence

The US town of Ferguson has seen rioting and looting after a jury decided not to bring charges over the killing of a black teenager.

Michael Brown was shot by a white police officer, Darren Wilson, on 9 August, sparking protests.

A police chief said violence in the suburb of St Louis, Missouri, was "probably much worse" than on any night since the teenager's death.

Nigerian opposition APC condemns Lagos office raid

Nigeria's main opposition party has condemned a weekend raid of its Lagos offices by state security agents.

"We call for an independent commission of inquiry to ascertain the reasons why armed officers raided our office," the All Progressive Congress (APC) deputy chairman Lawal Shuaibu told the BBC.

The party said computers were destroyed and documents seized during the raid.

The State Security Service said it was investigating alleged cloning of voter cards, ahead of elections in February.

Al-Shabab denies Kenya reprisal over bus raid

Somalia’s rebel group, al-Shabab, has denied claims by Kenyan authorities that more than 100 of their fighters, who allegedly masterminded an attack on a bus in northern Kenya, were killed by Kenyan forces.

Deputy President William Ruto said on Sunday that his country’s armed forces carried out a cross-border attack in which they targeted the perpetrators of Saturday’s attack in which 28 bus passengers were killed near the town of Mandera.