A BBC Africa Eye undercover investigation at the University of Ghana has exposed a lecturer from the College of Education, Dr Paul Kwame Butakor, pleading to a ‘female’ student to become her side guy. He said repeatedly, “Let me be your side boy, side guy…men have side chicks…I will not give you trouble…seriously I will…

Academic institutions in West Africa have increasingly been facing allegations of sexual harassment by lecturers. This type of abuse is said to be endemic, but it’s almost never proven. After gathering dozens of testimonies, BBC Africa Eye sent undercover journalists posing as students inside the University of Lagos and the University of Ghana. Female reporters…

President Nana Akufo Addo is set to respond to controversy surrounding supposed plans to introduce Comprehensive Sexuality Education in public schools which has been condemned as “satanic” The Information minister took to Twitter to announce the event but did not state the day. “President @NAkufoAddo will this wknd address faith based organizations on the fears…

Ghana is capable of producing activated carbons or activated charcoal (ACs) using home-made materials to boost the gold and oil industries and the economy at large, Professor William Kwame Buah, Dean of School of Postgraduate Studies of the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), has said. This, he said, was because the country had acquired…

A Deputy Chairman of the African Union Commission (AUC), Mr Kwesi Quartey, has said Ghana needs to reconsider and review its retirement age upwards from the stipulated 60 years. Mr Quartey said that would help the nation benefit from the knowledge and experience of people who fell within that age bracket who were still very…

Facebook has removed several pages, groups and accounts on its platforms from the Middle East, Africa and Southeast Asia, citing “coordinated inauthentic behaviour” aimed at misleading social media users. A total of 443 Facebook accounts, 200 pages and 76 groups, as well as 125 Instagram accounts, were removed, the social media platform said on Thursday.…

Gunmen have abducted six girls and two staff members from a boarding school in northern Nigeria, according to a police spokesman. Yakubu Sabo said armed men gained entry on Thursday into the Engravers College, a mixed boarding school in a remote area south of the city of Kaduna. They “took away two staff of the…

Cameroon’s President Paul Biya has said he will drop charges against 333 prisoners arrested for their alleged roles in a two-year separatist uprising, but rebel leaders dismissed the move as a political stunt and pledged to keep fighting. Thursday’s announcement made on Twitter comes during talks launched by Biya to end fighting between rebels and…

Nearly 600 Burundian refugees have left Tanzania to return to their home country, the United Nations said – the first batch in the mass repatriation of hundreds of thousands of people who fled political violence in Burundi four years ago. A Tanzanian government official and the UN said all of Thursday’s returns had been voluntary. More…