Police say Amal Umar gave an officer 250,000 naira (£137; $175) to have her impounded car released.
The president is under pressure from Ghanaians who want him to sign the bill, and from those who condemn it.
The travel ban is an attempt to cut government spending amid an ongoing cost-of-living crisis.
Chocolate prices rise in the run up to Easter after high temperatures curb cocoa crops in West Africa.
How one man is secretly helping families pay kidnappers to release their relatives.
Customers who don't return money they withdrew face prosecution, an Ethiopian bank chief tells the BBC.
He tells the BBC he won't apologise for attempting to delay the vote, a move that led to deadly protests.
Macky Sall refuses to apologise for the deaths that followed the decision to postpone elections last month.
BBC teams report from the devastated capital and hear accounts of rapes and street executions from refugees.
Fulham first team coach Luis Boa Morte will leave his role with the Premier League side at the end of the season to take charge of Guinea-Bissau.
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula has been accused of corruption while defence minister, which she denies.
A social media video showing Amaechi Muonagor only able to utter a few words has elicited sympathy.
Kenyans will now pay a 1.5% of their wages, intended to help build housing for the less well-off.
ADF militants, blamed for a series of deadly attacks, entered Uganda on Saturday, the army says.
Meet Matron Rose Amankwaah, a former medallist at the Commonwealth Games who has spent almost 50 years working for the NHS.
Shamiso Mosaka was removed from a flight by police officers after crew said she was being "abusive".
Clients at Ethiopia's biggest commercial bank are being urged to return any money that isn't theirs.
Authorities say the extreme heat could last for two weeks and bring temperatures of up to 45C (113F).
How 54 Malawian women trafficked to Oman to work in slave-like conditions were rescued.
President Tinubu vows justice for 16 soldiers killed while on a peace mission in Delta state last week - and more
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