Mustapha Bature Sallama
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- Jul 19, 2026
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Three crises, one ministry: Haruna Iddrisu's mounting test in Ghana's senior high schools (opens the original)
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Ghana's Education Minister, Haruna Iddrisu, is confronting a convergence of crises in the country's senior high schools that few of his predecessors have faced simultaneously: allegations of sexual predation by a teacher against a student, an escalating pattern of student indiscipline that has turned violent, and the open sale of narcotics on school compounds. Together, they have exposed structural weaknesses in Ghana's pre-tertiary education system that a single disciplinary crackdown is unlike
The power of Sahelian terrorism does not come from abroad it comes from the state's own weaknesses (opens the original)
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For years, the dominant image of Sahelian terrorism has been one of foreign-armed q roaming the desert in pickup trucks, their weapons flowing in from Libyan arsenals, Middle Eastern patrons or shadowy international networks. It is a compelling story. It is also, according to the most rigorous field investigation yet conducted on the subject, largely wrong. What eight years of weapons tracing actually foundConflict Armament Research spent eight years investigating arms flows into Mali, Burkina F
South Africa accuses Ghana of coordinated misinformation campaign amid xenophobia row (opens the original)
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A diplomatic quarrel between Accra and Pretoria has burst into the open, with the South African Presidency publicly accusing Ghana, alongside Nigeria, of running a sustained misinformation campaign designed to portray South Africa as a pariah state over its handling of anti-illegal immigration protests. The allegation, delivered by Presidential spokesperson Vincent Magwenya at a briefing at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, marks an unusually direct escalation between two countries that have long
Nurse's death inside Minister Umahi's Ebonyi residence sparks calls for independent probe (opens the original)
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A death that has become a national controversy The death of a 26-year-old healthcare worker inside the country home of Nigeria's Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, has become one of the most closely watched controversies in Abuja in recent weeks, drawing opposition demands for the minister's resignation, conflicting accounts of what happened, and an unresolved dispute over whether an autopsy should even proceed. Mary Habila died on June 27, 2026, at Umahi's residence in Uburu, Ohaozara Loca
Two years after Supreme Court ruling, local government funds still trapped between the well and the bucket (opens the original)
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A judgment without teethTwo years after Nigeria's Supreme Court ordered that federal allocations be paid directly into local government accounts, the implementation of that landmark ruling remains stalled, even as more than N10.48 trillion has flowed into the third tier of government during the period, according to findings by The PUNCH. It is a Hausa saying that captures the situation best: the well gives water, but the bucket refuses to draw it up. The resource is there. The mechanism to deliv
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