A South African regional court on Friday rejected Zuma’s request to postpone his jail term. The 79-year old will remain behind bars after his application for his prison term to be delayed was dismissed by the Pietermaritzburg High Court. Zuma begun his 15-month jail sentence Thursday. He has one more …

Patients are crammed into every corner of the hospital’s emergency room ward, They lie on beds and gurneys, or sit slumped in wheelchairs. Many suck on oxygen, but nobody talks. Some die while waiting for a bed. On the worst nights in Johannesburg, currently in the grips of a terrible …

Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, Founder and President of Christ Embassy church, is set to hold a three-day healing programme ‘Healing Streams With Pastor Chris’ from Friday, July 9 up to Sunday, July 11. Interestingly, pastor Oyakhilome’s healing programme coincides with the funeral of founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations …

The 2020 Vice-Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Prof Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has visited the Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) for the funeral of late prphet T.B. Joshua. Prof Opoku-Agyemang was in the company of some big wigs of the NDC who were seen filing past the …

Police at Baastona in Accra have rescued 10 Nigerian nationals from their traffickers at Coastal Estates down, along the Spintex Road. They also managed to arrest six suspected traffickers. The said victims are between the ages of 21 and 24. In a statement, the police said they received an SOS …

Former president Jacob Zuma is in isolation at Estcourt Correctional Centre in KwaZulu-Natal, correctional services spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo confirmed on Thursday morning. “As per all new admissions due to Covid-19, he is in isolation.” Nxumalo said he had not checked on Zuma on Thursday morning, therefore he could not give …

Earlier, there was a procession conveying the body of God’s servant from The SCOAN Prayer Mountain to the church auditorium at The SCOAN, Ikotun-Egbe, Lagos, Nigeria. Peaceful indeed is the rest of a man who preached and acted nothing but love, humility, compassion and service to humanity in the mighty …

The celebrity US-based plastic Ghanaian surgeon, Dr Michael Obeng, says he is ready to help in the impending surgery to separate the conjoined twins at Ridge Hospital in Accra. The popular surgeon told Francis Abban on Morning Starr Thursday that even though he has never handled conjoined situations, he is …

An Accounts Officer with the Pediatric Department of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital has been caught on video negotiating and taking bribes from patients in order to slash their bills after treatment. A video secretly recorded by a parent of a toddler who was admitted at the hospital shows the …

Former president Jacob Zuma has officially handed himself over and is in police custody. Both national SAPS spokesman Brig Vish Naidoo and police ministry spokeswoman Lirandzu Themba confirmed the news. Naidoo said: “I can confirm that the former president has been taken into police custody well ahead of the deadline.” …

There is an outbreak of a human coronavirus (hCoVs) and Swine flu (H1N1) at Akuse Methodist Senior High Technical School in Lower Manya Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region. Starr News has gathered that the cases were recorded from last week. Out of 34 samples taken for testing, 13 students …

Police arrested seven suspected armed robbers in KwaDukuza while they were being cleansed by a traditional healer. Image: 123RF/BELCHONOK Seven men have been arrested in KwaDukuza, on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast, while being cleansed by a traditional healer after allegedly committing an armed robbery. Police spokesperson Col Thembeka Mbele said the …

Gunmen in Nigeria have kidnapped at least 140 schoolchildren in the north-west of the country, police say. At least eight people were also abducted from the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Centre in Zaria early on Sunday morning. Two nurses and a 12-month-old child were among those seized, said a hospital …

A typical African president is shielded from prosecution for as long as he or she is in office. In some jurisdictions, once out of office; they can be dragged to the courts once they leave office yet still there are countries where a former president maintains immunity from prosecution. In …

• TB Joshua’s security aid believes the late prophet never performed miracles • He said he did magic at his church • He indicated that people who claim to be healed from a particular sickness deceive the public  Cletus Ossai, former security aide to the late TB Joshua, has said …

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There was a fire outbreak at the Synagogue Church of All Nations located in Ikotun area of Lagos State on Monday night. The PUNCH gathered that the fire, which gutted a store house in the church’s premises, started around 11 pm. The fire incident happened on the night of the …

The Pietermaritzburg high court will on Tuesday hear an urgent application from legal representatives of former president Jacob Zuma to stay the execution of his arrest. Zuma was sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment by the Constitutional Court for contempt of court, after he defied an order by the apex court to …

  The venue is the Synagogue Church Of All Nations, SCOAN, headquarters in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos. The event is the candlelight procession kickstarting the funeral rites for Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua, popularly known as TB Joshua. Today (July ) is the first day of a weeklong series of events …

Specialists at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital at Ridge in Accra have offered to perform the medical procedure to separate a set of Siamese twins delivered at the hospital recently. The Siamese twins are conjoined at the head, and the procedure to separate them would be the first of its kind …

The government has decided to take up the cost for the surgery to separate the conjoined twins at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital (Ridge). The Chief of staff, Mrs Akosua Frema Osei-Opare announced this Monday morning on behalf of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The total cost of the surgery is …

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Management of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has suspended the 2021 Students Representative Council (SRC) election-related activities following a clash between two halls of residence on campus. Supporters of two SRC presidential aspirants, believed to be affiliated to University Hall (Katanga) and the Unity Hall (Conti), …

• Prophet Chinonso Stephen says he sees political tension in Ghana • He said this tension will last for three years • A lot of Ghanaians will die but can be averted through prayer Prophet Emmanuel Chinonso Stephen, a Nigerian clergyman, says Ghana will be experiencing political tension that will …

• 46 active cases out of an initial 135 have been recorded after over 800 persons were tested in the school • 21 of the students who tested positive for the new Delta variant are day students • Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Kuma Aboagye says results of …

Forty-three migrants were missing off the Tunisian coast and 84 others were rescued after their boat sank while heading to Europe, a Tunisian Red Crescent official said on Saturday. A rescue operation started on Friday after the boat capsized near the coastal town of Zarzis in Tunisia’s Medenine province, Munji …

• The deadly COVID-19 Delta variant has been detected among the Ghanaian populace • The variant is reported to be the most contagious of COVID-19 variants • Some students in an undisclosed Senior High School have contracted this new variant  The highly contagious COVID-19 strain, Delta has been recorded in one of the Senior …

Malawians have been sharing photos on social media of female Members of Parliament dressed up as schoolgirls – some delighting in their outfits others unimpressed by the stunt. The country’s 193-member Parliament usually has a strict dress code, but it was relaxed on Tuesday for the chamber’s 43 female politicians. …

The Takoradi Technical University (TTU), has dismissed one student and suspended 61 others for various academic offenses. The dismissed and suspended students, numbering 62, were punished for examination malpractices, misconduct and unacceptable behaviours. Mr Richardson Panyin, the Public Relations Officer of the school who made this known to the GNA, …

  The 27-member states of the European Union endorsed today, Wednesday, June 30, the concept of crisis management of the future European Union military training mission in Mozambique, taking the first step towards its formalization, diplomatic sources told Lusa. At the last meeting of EU ambassadors under the Portuguese presidency …