John Pombe Magufuli, President of Tanzania has died. The announcement was made by the country’s Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan on state TV. According to her, Magufuli died of heart complications while being treated at Mzena Hospital in the port city of Dar es Salaam. Magufuli’s death followed more than …
Read More »Tema will not celebrate Kplejoo festival
The Tema Traditional Council (TTC), on Wednesday, announced the cancellation of this year’s Kplejoo festival. The Council said the cancellation was necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the President’s ban on large gathering as a measure against the spread of the virus. Nii Amarh Somponu II, Tema Shipi and Stool …
Read More »More officials may face the music over prison ‘sex video’
Disciplinary steps have already been taken against the inmate who recorded himself allegedly having sex with a female warden in an office at a prison in KwaZulu-Natal. And while the warden has already been suspended, more officials could find themselves in trouble over the incident at the Ncome Correctional Centre, …
Read More »Atlanta shootings: Spa shooting victims identified after arrest
Police in the US state of Georgia have identified four of the eight people who were killed in mass shootings at three massage parlours in the Atlanta area. Officials say it is still too early to know whether the attack, in which six Asian women were killed, was racially motivated. …
Read More »SHS final year student, 3 others drown in Volta Lake
A final year student of Kadjebi-Asato Senior High School (SHS), Evelyn Gadagoe, and three others have drowned in the Volta Lake at Kpando. According to JoyNews sources, she was travelling with 10 other people in a canoe, on Tuesday, when they were hit by a storm on the lake. Six people on …
Read More »Few African scientists appear on the list of coronavirus researchers1
African scientists have continued to perform dismally in research on Covid-19, authoring just three percent of research on the virus, according to analyses of leading medical and global health journals. Worse, even what is published — 1,130 documents between November 2019 and August 2020 — almost 65 percent of the …
Read More »Video of gari and sugar served at a wedding reception causes stir
A video of gari, sugar, and groundnut been shared as part of serve yourself at an even has caused stirs online. The couple who decided to do something different on their wedding day agreed with the wedding planner to serve guests with ‘Gari’. Many people keeps wondering if someone will …
Read More »PHOTOS: Female MPs in uniform as House debates women’s health and development
If they were in a school setting or at the hospital, at a training college, or even at the Makola School of Law, perhaps, the idea that they would all be spotting the same fabric might not be quite a subject to explore. But when the female Members of Parliament appeared in …
Read More »PHOTOS: Timber falls from truck; one dead, another in critical condition
A timber truck driver is reportedly dead while another person is in critical condition after a terrifying accident at Abene in Kwahu East District of the Eastern region. The accident occurred Wednesday morning on Kwahu Abetifi to Abene road. According to a witness, the logging trailer was carting three big …
Read More »‘Akufo-Addo is 2nd best president ever, Mahama 4th’ – Ghanaian Soldier who fought in WWII
WO1 Joseph Ashitey Hammond, a Ghanaian soldier who fought in the Second World War, has said he has witnessed the performance of all the presidents that have come after Ghana’s independence and can therefore state on authority that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is the second-best president ever in the history of …
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