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Zambian TV and radio presenter Dingindaba Jonah Buyoya has won the 2022 BBC News Komla Dumor Award. At 25, Buyoya is the youngest recipient of the award, launched in 2015, and the first of the seven winners so far from southern Africa. He is currently a TV host and reporter …

Ghana may still be finding its teeth in technological innovations, but in its recent digitalization drive, Ghana has proved to be ahead of many developed countries in a number of digital innovations. One of them is Motor Insurance Database, where Ghana has proved to be a step ahead of Britain, …

In north western Nigeria bandit gangs raid villages, attack drivers, abduct schoolchildren, and kill anyone who resists. But who are these men, and what do they want? A new documentary from BBC Africa Eye talks us into the heart of Nigeria’s worst security crisis, and brings us face to face …

“In Africa, Ghana is one of the most expensive countries to live in, prices of goods and services have increased sharply since the beginning of the pandemic and some say the situation is becoming unbearable. Rising fuel and food prices are affecting all parts of society…,” this is the introduction …

Ace Nigerian BBC broadcaster, Peter Okwoche, has expressed admiration for Ghanaian presidents whom he has described as widely intelligent. Regardless he says, he has a responsibility of raising concerns and questions as and when they arise to ensure accountability in the various governments. According to him, he does this through …

Dear Mike, Back in January 1982, I was forced to leave Ghana in a hurry because I heard on the car radio, a directive from the new authorities that had overthrown the constitutionally elected government that I should report at the Military camp. I had written an article in the …

Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo on April 3, 2022, sat for an interview with the BBC’s Peter Okochwe to discuss wide-ranging issues including the state of the Ghanaian economy and the introduction of the contentious Electronic Transaction Levy(E-Levy). Fuel prices in the West African nation have shot up together with commodity …

In an exclusive investigation BBC Africa eye uncovers how rogue pastors exploit the trust and belief of their followers for profit and power in Uganda. For hundreds of millions of Africans, Christianity is the cornerstone of their existence. But an increase in rogue pastors has led to a fight for …

Corruption Watch’s Investigative Journalist, Francisca Enchill, has been shortlisted for the 2022 BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. The shortlisted Journalists were selected from thousands of applications received by BBC from Journalists living and practicing in the African continent for the 2022 award. In an email on Thursday, March 3, …

Since 2018 no Ghanaian has been nominated for the award Abedi Pele won the first edition of the award in 1992 The 2021 awards feature only one footballer Ghanaian sports personalities have been left out of this year’s BBC African Sports Personality of the Year award. The award which is …