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UPDATE | More than 70 people dead after fire breaks out at ‘informal settlement’ inside Joburg building

A fire broke out at a five-storey building in Johannesburg early on Thursday morning. Screengrab via @CityofJoburgZA/ X At least 73 people have died and more than 50 others were injured after a fire broke out at a building in the Johannesburg CBD on Thursday morning. Johannesburg Emergency Management Services …

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Ayisha Modi exposed over ‘house gift’ from Obofour

Popular Ghanaian socialite, Ayisha Modi, has contradicted herself in a recent interview and netizens are reacting to it. Earlier in 2020, during an interview with Delay, Ayisha Modi claimed that she resides in a four-bedroom house, situated at East Legon Agiringanor and it was a gift from her ‘god-parents’; Rev. Obofour and …

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Tamale: Police man nabbed and detained for ‘stealing’ 3 confiscated motorbikes during clashes

Police in the Northern Region have detained a police officer was nabbed for allegedly stealing three confiscated motorbikes in Tamale. The Regional Police Command confiscated dozens of motorbikes during the clashes between its personnel and supporters of the volunteer Anti-drug Abuse Taskforce at the Tamale District Magistrate Court on Monday …

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Police file for injunction against Minority’s planned demo

The Ghana Police Service has filed for an injunction against the Minority’s proposed routes for its protest against the Bank of Ghana Governor and his two deputies. The Minority will on September 5 seek to march from Makola, through Rawlings Park and Opera Square to the frontage of the Bank …

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You should have poisoned yourself by now – Ken Agyapong reminded of threat to Ibrahim Mahama

Dr. Sampson Kwasi Anoma, a senior lecturer at Kumasi Technical University (KsTU), has criticized New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer hopeful and Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong’s consistency in upholding publicly made promises. Reacting to the recent outburst of the MP threatening to give President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo …

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Gabon coup: Watch huge cash stash allegedly found at home of politician

Hours after the August 30, 2023 coup was announced in Gabon, two videos went viral not only in the country but across the world. The two, trended for different reasons. Controversial cash stash video The more controversial video was of a massive cash discovery allegedly in the home of a …

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NPP primaries: Boakye Agyarko withdraws from September 2 run-off

New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer hopeful, Boakye Kyerematen Agyarko has announced his decision to withdraw from the party’s special run-off election scheduled for September 2, 2023. According to Mr Agyarko, the decision by the party’s Presidential Elections Committee to limit the number of persons to vote in run-off vote between himself …

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Meet Brice Oligui Nguema: Gabon’s military president

Brice Clothaire Oligui Nguema, commander-in-chief of the Gabonese Republican Guard, the country’s most powerful security unit, has emerged as leader of the military junta that ousted president Ali Bongo Ondimba on August 30, 2023. The swift shift from electoral results to military intervention saw Nguema, a cousin of Bongo, leading …

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Gabon coup sign of spreading autocratic contagion – ECOWAS chair Tinubu worried

Nigerian president and current chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has reacted to the August 30 coup in Gabon, stressing that he was worried with the developments. In a statement signed by his spokesperson Ajuri Ngelale, Tinubu said the coup situation seem to be a sign …

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Son of ousted Gabon president, close allies arrested for corruption, treason

In the wake of the August 30 coup in Gabon, ousted president Ali Bongo was placed under house arrest and his eldest son and wife ‘taken away’ to unknown locations he said in his address appealing for help. It turns out that the military junta that seized power was holding …

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