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“Help. I got shot and they keep shooting…I am dying.”
These were among the last words that Mozambican blogger Albino Sibia streamed live on Facebook on December 12, 2024, after a police officer shot him twice in the back as he was filming police action against protestors.

Armed men, some wearing military camouflage, attacked journalist Ohemeng Tawiah with stones and machetes on December 20, 2024, after Tawiah and his camera operator, Joseph Kusi, joined a police team investigating allegations of illegal mining at a site in Ghana’s northern Ashanti region.

Nigeria’s Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Mr. Bosun Tijani, has said that the Nigerian Government plans to increase broadband investments by 300 to 500 per cent under a new initiative designed to accelerate internet connectivity across the country,

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has urged Guinea’s High Authority of Communication to reverse its decision to indefinitely suspend the privately owned news site Dépêche Guinée and ensure the public has unrestrained access to diverse media sources.

The Project Management Institute and the United Nations specialised agency for ICTs, the International Telecommunication Union, have signed a collaboration agreement to enhance project governance, implementation, and the development of future-ready skills within ITU’s global initiatives.

Nigeria’s Minister of Communication, Innovation and Digital Economy, Mr. Bosun Tijani, says that the Nigerian Government approved a 50 per cent tariff hike for telecommunication companies to sustain the industry.

The Committee to Protect Journalists has urged the Beninese authorities to reverse their January 21 orders suspending six privately owned media outlets — news sites Reporter Médias Monde, Les Pharaons, and Crystal News, the Mme Actu Tiktok account, and Le Patriote and Audace Info newspapers — and to return the press card of Audace Info’s publication director Romuald Alingo.

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) led by its President, Mr. Joseph Ajaero, has criticised the 50 per cent hike in telecoms tariffs, describing it as an added burden on Nigerian workers who earn less than $50 per month as minimum wage.

The Ministry of Information and Civic Education is currently holding a two-day staff retreat at the Country Lodge Hotel in Hill Station.

MTN Nigeria Communications Plc has raised N42.2 billion through its Series 15 and 16 Commercial Paper issuance under the company’s N250 billion Commercial Paper Issuance Programme.