Two years after the death of the enigmatic and charismatic Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, his wife Grace has been fined five cows and two goats by a traditional court in the country for the transgression of not burying her husband according to traditional customs. Mrs. Mugabe was tried in absentia …

• President Bah Ndaw and PM Moctar Ouane were arrested late Monday • They were hauled to Kati, the centre of Mali’s military apparatus • The reason for the arrest has been put down to a cabinet reshuffle that sidelined two military officers from the transitional government Malian soldiers unhappy …

  • The incident reportedly occurred at the Sogakope Hospital • According to the patient’s relative she does not understand why her mother who does not speak the Twi language was being addressed by a worker who could not speak their native Ewe language in the Volta Region • The …

  Hundreds of protesters partially blocked a highway into Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Monday after residents reported a spate of kidnappings in the area. Setting tyres on fire, the crowd barricaded a section of the Abuja-Kaduna highway in the Tafa area of Niger state, bordering the federal capital, an AFP …

  Two persons are in the grips of the Northern Regional Police Command for allegedly possessing firearms without authority in Tamale. At a media briefing in Tamale, Deputy Northern Regional Police Commander DCOP Moses A. Atibilla said a joint operation by the Counter-Terrorism Unit, Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and the …

  Observers in the aviation industry note that in February, a military aircraft crashed near Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, in which seven people died. They recalled that in 2021 alone, we had three crashes associated with the military — on February 27, March 31 and the third one was …

  Three people, including a two-year-old boy, perished when a speeding fuel tanker was involved in an accident at Onyinanumfo in the Ahafo-Ano South-West District of the Ashanti Region, on Monday, May 24. The tanker said to be carrying diesel from Kumasi, which was to be off-loaded at Tepa, reportedly …

The Ministry of Education (MOE) has released an amount of Gh¢125,998,145.00 to the Buffer Stock Company and Headmasters of Senior High Schools for the payment of perishable food items for the school feeding programme across the country. Out of the total amount paid on May 14, 2021, Gh¢83, 184,673.00 was …

• The Kumasi Law Faculty of the Central University College was closed down for operating without authorisation from NAB • Affected students for the 2020/2021 academic year are being sorted out by the university • The main campus of the Central University College remains a top tier accredited tertiary institution …

Three people, including a two-year-old boy, perished when a speeding fuel tanker was involved in an accident at Onyinanumfo in the Ahafo-Ano South-West District of the Ashanti Region, on Monday, May 24. The tanker said to be carrying diesel from Kumasi, which was to be off-loaded at Tepa, reportedly caught …