First-year Senior High School (SHS) students Thursday reported to school to begin the 2021/22 academic year. A visit by the Ghana News Agency (GNA) to the St Thomas Aquinas SHS and Accra High School saw the ‘freshers’ going through the registration process. Mr Paul K. Amoasi Baidoo, the Headmaster of …

Tanzanian president John Pombe Magufuli was declared dead yesterday in a statement issued by his deputy, Samia Suluhu. The announcement ended spreading social media rumours about the whereabouts of the 61-year-old president who had won a resounding second five-year term late last year. A number of African leaders sent their …

Eskom said it would suspend load-shedding between 10am and 2pm on Thursday to allow SA to mourn the death of Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini. This, the embattled power utility said, would allow the nation to participate in the King’s memorial service. “This extraordinary measure has been implemented to allow the …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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Tension run high in Ilorin, capital of Nigeria’s Kwara State as Muslims and Christians violently clashed over the use of hijab in state schools controlled by the church. The violent exchanges of today were specifically at the Baptist Secondary School where persons of both faiths threw stones and plastic chairs …

German police detained a Gambian man on Tuesday suspected of participating in crimes against humanity, including the killing of a journalist, as a driver in the elite guard of former President Yahya Jammeh, Germany’s federal prosecutor said. The Federal Public Prosecutor General (GBA) identified the suspect as Bai L., under …

The High Court in Kenya is due to rule today (Wednesday) on whether to decriminalise female genital mutilation for adult women. The case is in response to a 2017 petition by a doctor who argued that banning the practice was unconstitutional as women had the right to choose what to …

The Food and Drugs Authority has assured the Ghanaian public that the AstraZeneca vaccines are safe adding that no side effects have been recorded in Ghana yet. Over 300, 000 Ghanaians have been given the jab after the country took delivery of some 600, 000 doses of the vaccines last …

As part of measures to help recover Ghana’s economy, government has announced a one percent increment (1%) in the National Health Insurance Levy(NHIL). This is to say that the hitherto 2.5% NHIL charge on goods and services has increased to 3.5%. Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Majority Leader in Parliament …

Gunmen on motorbikes stormed a primary school in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kaduna and kidnapped three teachers but no children, a state official said on Monday after the fifth school abduction in three months. It was the first attack on an elementary school in a wave of such attacks …

Tanzania’s exiled opposition leader, Tundu Lissu, says plans are underway for an official declaration of the status of missing president John Pombe Magufuli. “The countdown to official declaration seems to be well underway. Military parade vehicles in the streets of Dar es Salaam,” he posted in a tweet accompanied by …

A pregnant woman has allegedly hacked her husband to death over an alleged extramarital affair in Delta. The incident happened on Monday, March 15, at Ekrejebor axis of Ughelli town in Ughelli North Local Government Area of the state. It was gathered that the 22-year-old woman identified as Faith Okiemute …

Tanzania president John Pombe Magufuli is partially paralyzed and on life support, an exiled opposition leader has alleged in a Twitter post. According to Lissu, his sources in the Tanzania Intelligence and Security Service, TISS, had informed him that the president’s condition was worsening. “VP Samia suggested today that the …

The Vatican said on Monday that priests and other Catholic Church ministers cannot bless same-sex unions and that such blessings are “not licit” if carried out. The Vatican’s doctrinal office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), issued the ruling in response to questions and moves in some …

An unknown number of school children and teachers have been kidnapped by gunmen from a primary school in Nigeria in a fresh attack in the north of the country, local authorities said in a statement on Monday. It is not yet been specified how many were abducted from the school …

It started on the very first day that we returned from our honeymoon. We had barely taken our seats when he told me that he had something to discuss with me. He sounded very excited and that made me wonder what he had to tell me. He said, “This is …

The Ghana Aids Commission chalked some notable successes at the end of 2020 as it was focused on achieving its mandate. One of the most recognizable achievements was the reduction of new infections from 20,068 in 2019 to 17,581 in 2020. This was captured in the 2021 budget presented by …

Here is a full list of winners in categories at the 63rd annual Grammy Awards, which were handed out on Sunday in Los Angeles. Beyonce had a big night, winning four prizes and thereby breaking the record for the most-ever Grammy wins by a female artist, and the most by …

Tanzanian police have arrested a man for circulating posts saying that President John Magufuli is in ill health. Magufuli has not been seen in public for two weeks, sparking unconfirmed reports from opposition leaders that he is unwell and incapacitated. At least one man was arrested for allegedly spreading false …

A Supreme Court has ordered Electoral Commission boss, Madam Jane Ansah to step aside after conducting what it says is a sham election that had the potential that leads to a full-blown Civil War. This comes after the Electoral Commission boss conducted an election in 2019 in which Malawi’s incumbent …

Twice as Tall won the award formerly known as Best World Music Album over records by Tinariwen, Antibalas, and others Burna Boy won Best Global Music Album at the 2021 Grammy Awards. His album Twice as Tall won the award over records by Antibalas (FU Chronicles), Bebel Gilberto (Agora), Anoushka Shankar (Love Letters), and Tinariwen …

Parliament is expected to invite the Minister of Education Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum to appear on the floor of the House to answer questions relating to newly-authored history textbooks for students. This comes after lawmaker for North Tongu Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has said he has filed an urgent parliamentary question requesting the …

In Ghana, one’s Senior High School (Alma Mater) is one’s pride. More often than not, people will cite and tout their secondary schools, especially in the face of educational quizzes and competitions. There are several senior High Schools in the country and each has a history. A history behind its …

“Palace in crisis.” That was the dominant headline in many UK newspapers following Oprah Winfrey’s bombshell interview with Prince Harry and Meghan in which the Duchess of Sussex revealed that a member of the British Royal Family made comments about the skin color of her baby. In the two-hour, pre-recorded …

A 97-year-old woman who was violently raped inside her home in Gadaka, Fika local government area of Yobe state, Nigeria , says she hasn’t had s£x in 40 years until she was violently raped. Speaking to newsmen at the State Criminal Investigation Department in Damaturu, the state capital, the victim …

She was a girl I knew in the neighborhood but we hardly talked. We went to church together and sometimes brought her home because we lived close together. She would greet me and I would respond. Sometimes I would ask how she was doing and she would say she was …

Thirty pupils are missing and many others were injured after armed men attacked a school in northern Nigeria, an official said on Friday. The Kaduna State Commissioner for International Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, said in a statement that the Federal College of Forestry Mechanization was attacked on Thursday …