AFRICA

J.A Kufuor SHS completed, ready for admission

A new school, J.A Kufuor Senior High School has been completed and ready for use. The school is located in Sokoban in Kumasi of the Ashanti Region. All structures have been put in place for the 2020/2021 placement. A statement issued by the Ghana Education Service (GES) to the National …

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Good news for all schools and teachers in Ghana

Ghana health service (GHS) was established in 1996. It is Ghanaian government body as part of the health sector reform. The Ghana health service is responsible for the comprehensive health service at all levels in Ghana. The GHS also establish effective mechanism for disease surveillance, prevention and control in Ghana. …

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Good news for all schools and teachers in Ghana

Ghana health service (GHS) was established in 1996. It is Ghanaian government body as part of the health sector reform. The Ghana health service is responsible for the comprehensive health service at all levels in Ghana. The GHS also establish effective mechanism for disease surveillance, prevention and control in Ghana. …

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VIDEO: Swaziland king shares Coronavirus experience

Swaziland’s King Mswati III said he had recovered from COVID-19 after Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen sent antiviral medication to help him. The small southern African country now called eSwatini, an absolute monarchy is Taiwan’s only remaining diplomatic ally on the continent, and Taipei has provided large amounts of economic and …

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Ghana to secure Ebola vaccine from WHO

Ghana is making plans to secure Ebola vaccines from the World Health Organization (WHO) to mitigate the effect of the virus in case the country records cases, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS), Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye has disclosed. This follows recent reports of an outbreak of the virus …

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SAD VIDEO: Beautiful university lady runs mad

Beautiful university students runs mad after lodging with man in a hotel.. Reports claim that a young university lady has gone bonkers after lodging at a hotel with a man. Stories about young ladies who became mentally unstable after lodging hotel with men have been reported on social media. People …

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Nigerian security forces tracking Kagara students’ kidnappers

Nigerian security forces on Thursday said they were tracking the armed gang that kidnapped more than 40 people from a school a day earlier, as families and a survivor described how students fled gunfire during the early morning attack. The kidnapping in Kagara in central Niger state was the latest …

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Namon Sec/Tech. staff arrested over GHS244K recruitment scam

A 45-year-old tutor at Namon Senior High School in the Offinso Municipality of the Ashanti region has been remanded by the Offinso Circuit Court for allegedly defrauding two Pastors and other residents of the community of a total amount of GHS244,700. The two Pastors namely Bernard Kokroko and Eric Owusu …

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Man jailed for killing pregnant 28-year-old

A man has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for the brutal murder of a pregnant woman whose death galvanised protests in South Africa and prompted a speech by the president. The body of 28-year-old Tshegofatso Pule was found hanging from a tree last June, with multiple stab wounds. …

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WAEC freezes 401 private WASSCE candidates’ results for malpractice

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has withheld the results of 401 candidates suspected to have been involved in various examination malpractices during the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidates. This follows the release of the examination results for private candidates who sat the WASSCE …

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SA moves to manufacture, commercialise hydrogen cell technology

After over a decade of research and development around hydrogen fuel technology, President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa is now ready to manufacture and commercialise hydrogen fuels technology. The President said this when he responded to a debate on the State of the Nation Address in Parliament on Thursday. “For …

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Bodies of 2 teenagers who drowned in Limpopo river recovered

Two teenage boys have drowned in a river in Limpopo, the police said on Thursday. Spokesperson Colonel Moatshe Ngoepe said Thabang Mohale, 16, and Maropeng Maphoto, 15, were swimming in the Letaba River near Lemondokop Village when they were swept away on Wednesday. The police were notified and a joint …

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Is it time to ban imports of second-hand clothes?

By some estimates, almost 70% of all clothes donated globally end up in Africa. And, for decades, people across the continent welcomed those imports – mostly from the US and Europe – with open arms. They proved to be a real lifeline for those of us who couldn’t afford brand …

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Uganda army chief apologises for beating of reporters

Uganda’s army chief, Gen David Muhoozi, says the beating of journalists by military police was neither sanctioned nor justified, and the army would pay their medical bills. The incident occurred outside the UN Human Rights office where the opposition MP and musician Bobi Wine was delivering a petition over human …

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Nigerian entrepreneur jailed 10 years in $11m email scam

Celebrated Nigerian entrepreneur, Obinwanne Okeke, has been jailed 10 years by a United States (US) federal court for masterminding an $11 million cyber fraud on a British company. The court heard that “through subterfuge and impersonation, Obinwanne Okeke engaged in a multi-year global business email and computer hacking scheme that …

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Longest serving pilot retires after 40 years in the sky

One of the country’s longest-serving pilots, Capt Charles Karabarinde, has officially retired after 40 years of service Capt Karabarinde undertook his final flight from Mogadishu in Somalia to Entebbe International Airport yesterday. He retires with a record of flying for more than 21,600 hours. While sharing his career journey yesterday, …

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Lecturer slumps, dies in lecture hall

The Management of Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education has confirmed the death of a senior lecturer, simply identified as Mr Echetama, who slumped and died in a lecture hall on Tuesday. The Acting Public Relations Officer of the college, Mr Joseph Okwulehi, who confirmed the death to newsmen in …

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Teachers, education officials disagree over new curriculum

Teachers and the Ministry of Education officials are speaking at cross-purposes over a compressed curriculum, just weeks to reopening of schools for semi-candidate classes on March 1. Whereas Mr Alex Kakooza, the Education ministry permanent secretary, says they have condensed the content for Terms II and III to fast-track teaching …

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KATH explains why abandoned maternity block will be demolished

The state is to pull down the four-decade-old uncompleted maternity and children’s block of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) officials have announced. This, according to government officials is to allow for the reconstruction of an entirely new ultramodern edifice at the nation’s second referral centre. Speaking on the Happy …

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