Secondary school is the one the stages of education, that enables the young generations to express their youthful Age and juvenile delinquent stages. It is during this stage of academic level that a student is being thought, on what he or she is likely going to face in the High …

Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, Minister of Education, says no student in the public universities will pay utility bills from next academic year. This is intended to lessen the financial burden on students and increase access to tertiary education in the country. Dr Opoku Prempeh, who announced this at the third …

Ghanaian musician Isaac Ofori Sika known in music circles as Nana Sika has officially released his first single titled ‘Kwaadonto’. The talented highlife musician who has uncountable songs in his music box said though it has taken him too long to come out with a single he believes his first …

Nigeria’s police chief has ordered the unconditional release of all demonstrators arrested during protests against police brutality. This was a key demand of protesters who have rallied against the hated Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars) in major cities for seven days. Amnesty International said that 10 people were killed in the …

A 6-year-old boy, Joshua Beckford from Tottenham, is the youngest to ever attend Oxford University. Joshua Beckford has been featured in a number of news reports and has confirmed in interviews, his admission into Oxford University to study Philosophy and History when he was six years old. A photo, which …

Management of the University of Cape Coast (UCC) has denied reports that two students have been killed by armed robbers. Twitter has been awash with rumours that armed robbers stormed a lecture hall on Monday night and attacked students who were learning and robbed them of their money, mobile phones, …

Michael Jackson secretly met with Robert Mugabe and his second wife Grace more than two decades ago. Footage of the highly secretive meeting has been released and shows the late King of Pop fraternising with the former president of Zimbabwe. The video, which was shot in the State House in …

Juornalist Kwaku Justice who participated in an online workshop organized by renowned Down To Earth  Magazine ( www.downtoearth.org) and Centre For Science and Environment ( CSE- www.cseindia.org) on the subject ” REPORTING ON CLIMATE CHANGE “, both in  New Delhi in India  via zoom with his colleagues  Ghanaian journalists  and that was his …

A police officer and a civilian have been killed in the Nigerian city of Lagos as protests continue against police brutality for a sixth day. There are reports that police used live ammunition on the protesters in the country’s largest city. This comes a day after a notorious police unit …

The Ministry of Education through Ghana Education Service has collaborated with the University of Cape Coast to run a three-semester programme to upgrade all Diploma holding teachers to the Degree level. The move is to ensure that the minimum qualification required to teach in any school in Ghana is the …

A wedding ceremony over the weekend ended in a tragedy when the groom lost his legs in an accident. A guest, who was traveling with the groom, also died on the spot. This unfortunate incident occurred at Kwara State in Nigeria. According to reports, the guest and the groom were …

A man was shot dead and three more were arrested following a robbery in Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, on Saturday. According to police spokesperson Colonel Thembeka Mbele, police officers were alerted about a robbery at a business premises on Hill Street in Pinetown. On arrival, they learnt the robbers had boarded a …

A fatal collision between a car and a bakkie on the R301 in Franschhoek in the Western Cape left four people dead and further six people injured, according to reports from ER24. Life Healthcare and Stellenbosch Fire Services were the first to arrive on the scene, quickly followed by ER24 paramedics …

Three people were confirmed dead in separate shack fires across Cape Town in the early hours of Sunday morning. City of Cape Town fire and rescue services spokesperson Jermaine Carelse said the first fire they responded to was in Scottsdene, Kraaifontein, just after midnight. Carelse said four fire engines, two …

Nigeria’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, has been disbanded. Mohammed Adamu, the Inspector-General of Police, made the announcement on Sunday afternoon. This follows days of a nationwide protest against the police operation. Nigerians, mostly the youths, had taken to the streets of major cities to protest SARS’ brutality while the hashtag …

Former South African president, Jacob Zuma, was ordered on Friday by a judicial panel to testify next month over allegations of state corruption during his nine years in office. The badgered politician is obligated to appear in court before a commission — chaired by deputy chief justice Raymond Zondo and …

It has been reported that no less than two Junior Secondary School students have been killed in Kwara state. The young Nigerians were reportedly crushed to death while five others sustained injuries in a fatal auto accident in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. According to an eyewitness who posted the …

Police say the women from Midrand in Gauteng were with a property developer viewing buildings to buy when they were attacked. Police say two women have died after being shot execution style while inside a luxury car at an industrial site in Polokwane, Limpopo. Police say the women from Midrand …

A four-year-old boy who went missing on his way to a local tuck-shop was found hours later, dead in a box in the Northern Cape. The boy’s family, from Ikhutseng in Warrenton, reported him missing on Friday when he did not return home. His body was found in a box …

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has said he is determined to end police brutality, introduce reforms and bring “erring personnel… to justice”. His comments came after two days of protests sparked by a video of a man allegedly being killed by police. The protest movement initially targeted the federal Special Anti-Robbery …

At least 12-people have been killed in a horrific taxi accident in Underberg, KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday. Three other people were injured and transported to nearby hospitals. Emergency services say the taxi rolled down an embankment flinging passengers out as it rolled. Source: NCA

The City of Cape Town’s Fire and Rescue Service received an emergency call at 07:40 about an informal structure that was alight just off Tienie Meyer Bypass, Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson Jermaine Carelse said. “Bellville’s fire crew was quickly on [the] scene and found a man with third-degree burn …

A previously unknown work by Ben Enwonwu, Nigeria’s most celebrated 20th Century visual artist, is up for auction in an online sale organised by Sotheby’s. The Court of the Oba of Benin, thought to have been painted in the 1940s, is described as a “masterpiece” by the auctioneers, but was …

A man who killed nine women in a case that caused outrage in Nigeria has been sentenced to death in the southern city of Port Harcourt. Prosecutors say 40-year-old Gracious David-West strangled his victims in hotel rooms across Nigeria between July and September 2019. Justice Adolphus Enebeli said he is …

Lirandzu Themba, a spokeswoman for South Africa’s Ministry of Police has reported that callers, some of whom identified as disgruntled farmers in the town of Senekal, threatened and racially abused her following the murder of a farm manager in the town last week. The Police ministry had criticized a violent …

A woman was allegedly shot in the mouth by a mobile police officer in Lagos today, October 8.   According to Twitter user @abba_kamselem, the incident happened at Salvation busstop, Opebi in Lagos. Spokesperson of the state police command, Muyiwa Adejobi, couldn’t immediately confirm the incident. He however, promised to revert …

The Paramount chief of Ahodwo Akuapeng Anorfo community in the Ashanti Region has accused the government of abandoning the Ahodwo Akuapeng Anorfo School Project. He said, the community has managed to raise funds for the construct Junior High School but due to financial constraints the project has been abandoned. A …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has congratulated the Presbyterian Boys Senior High School (PRESEC), Legon for emerging as winners of the 2020 edition of the much talked about competition. The President described the schools as the undisputed kings of the National Science and Maths Quiz after they clinched their sixth …

Presbyterian Boys’ Senior High School (PRESEC) have won the 2020 edition of the National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ). They beat off competition from Adisadel College and Opoku Ware School on Thursday, October 8 to win their sixth title. PRESEC won by 36 points, Adisadel College amassed 31 whereas Opolu …

The Libyan authorities have arrested three suspects for killing a man by setting him on fire, the interior ministry has said. The interior ministry is quoted as saying that the three Libyans, all in their 30s, stormed a Tripoli factory where African migrants were working, detained one of the workers, …