Kenya’s decision to close all schools until next January because of coronavirus has left many of its private schools struggling to survive, as Basillioh Mutahi and Mercy Juma report. The classrooms at Mwea Brethren School, which once resonated to the sound of children learning, are now filled with a cacophony …

Algeria’s President, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, has announced that a referendum on a new constitution will be held in just over two months, on 1 November. A draft of the proposed constitution released earlier this year indicated that it would give Algeria’s parliament and the prime minister’s office more power. There have …

Africa is to be declared free from wild polio by the independent body, the Africa Regional Certification Commission. Polio usually affects children under five, sometimes leading to irreversible paralysis. Death can occur when breathing muscles are affected by the paralysis. There is no cure but the polio vaccine protects children …

My News Ghana has sighted a screenshot of a conversation between a female student and her teacher where the student was proposing to her teacher. In the conversation, the student identified as Jessica told her teacher that she had something to tell him, he asked her to go ahead then she …

Amnesty International says it has documented an alarming escalation in attacks and abductions in northern Nigeria, with more than 1,100 deaths since the beginning of the year. The rights group says the authorities have left rural communities at the mercy of rampaging gunmen and describes the lack of protection as …

Looks like the guy has been eating from the poor boss’s honey pot. lt seems the guy has been having two job descriptions for all along, and when the salary was delayed, he decided to concentrate on one job description that would later break his boss’s heart. It goes to …

A  cargo plane transporting money for the UN’s World Food Programme has crashed near the South Sudanese capital, Juba, killing eight of the nine people on board, the authorities say. Four of the dead from Saturday morning’s crash were South Sudanese, two were from Tajikistan and the other was from …

A couple of suspected internet fraudsters (Yahoo Boys) reportedly clashed with some Policemen on Saturday morning, August 22, at Idiroko road in Ogun State. It was gathered that some Policemen had tried to stop the young men who were driving Benz at a checkpoint but the men ignored them and …

South Africa’s students in all grades resume classes on Monday after weeks of closure because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Final-year students had resumed classes earlier to prepare for examinations. President Cyril Ramaphosa closed the schools in July after they were briefly reopened following a public outcry on rising virus cases. Monday’s resumption …

The University of Cape Coast (UCC), University of Health and Allied Sciences(UHAS), technical universities and other colleges are expected to reopen today, August 24, 2020. This is to ensure their completion of the year’s academic work following the government’s gradual easing of restrictive protocols in the fight against the novel …

Suspected herdsmen have chopped off the hand of a farmer in Ikoyi-Ile in Orire local government area of Oyo State.   The Secretary of Idera Agbe Farmers Association in the council, Chief Joseph Oyekola, who confirmed this to The Nation, said the herdsmen terrorizing the area have also raped two …

The wife of the Chief Imam of Ayere community in Ijumu Local Government Area (LGA) of Kogi State, Nigeria, Mrs. Yemisi Baderu, has reportedly been murdered. According to reports received from Kogi State, Nigeria, the woman was murdered with cutlass in the presence of her husband on Thursday night. The …

The police in Anambra State on Saturday arrested a 30-year-old woman, who allegedly threw her newly born baby inside a pit toilet at Nkpor, Idemili North Local Government Area of the state. The suspect, Franca Udokwu, a native of Obuba Obofia Nkpor community in Idemili North LGA, was said to …

A video of a man crying by the side of a busy road after a woman turned down his public proposal has gone viral.   In the video, the man is seen going down on one knee to ask the woman to marry him. The woman didn’t seem pleased and …

Twenty prisoners were killed in Madagascar as the authorities attempted to stop a riot in a prison in the south of the island, the justice ministry said. The trouble began at the prison in Farafagana at around 12:00 local time (09:00 GMT) with inmates splitting into two groups and attacking …

Legit.ng crew had a major encounter with Elizabeth Packal, a woman who revealed she was pregnant for 10 years. In an exclusive interview with her, she revealed shocking information about the pregnancy. When the mysterious story of miss Packal was first heard, correspondents headed to Oyo state to find out …

Waste management expert, Zoomlion Ghana Limited, has begun the phase two of disinfecting tertiary institutions in the Central Region.   The exercise in the Central Region, which started on Friday, is collaboration between the Ministry of Education (MoE), Ghana Education Service (GES) and Zoomlion.   It followed the President Akufo-Addo’s …

As part of measures to reduce the risk of students exposure to COVID-19 when schools are reopened, government in collaboration with the number one Waste Management in Ghana and Africa, Zoomlion Ghana Limited has embarked on a 2nd phase disinfestation exercise in Tertiary institutions across the country.   It would …

Waste Management Experts Zoomlion Ghana Limited in collaboration with the Government under the supervision of the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service on Saturday 22nd August, 2020 began the second phase of the disinfection of tertiary institutions as directed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo ahead of Schools …

In line with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s directive for tertiary institutions to be disinfected before re-opening next week for continuing students, the Ministry of Education (MoE) and Ghana Education in collaboration with Zoomlion Ghana Limited (ZGL) has begun the second phase of disinfection in tertiary institutions in the Volta …

A cargo plane transporting money for the UN’s World Food Programme has crashed near the South Sudanese capital, Juba, killing eight of the nine people on board, the authorities say. Four of the dead from Saturday morning’s crash were South Sudanese, two were from Tajikistan and the other was from …

Ninety-seven people, including 28 unaccompanied minors, have been rescued from an overcrowded rubber boat that was drifting in the Mediterranean 30 miles off the Libyan coast, charity Sea-Watch International says. It is believed that the boat had set off from Libya. Crew on the search and rescue ship Sea-Watch 4 …

A South African who was thought to be the oldest man in the world has died at the age of 116. Fredie Blom’s identity documents showed he was born in Eastern Cape province in May 1904, although that was never verified by Guinness World Records. When he was teenager, his …

No fewer than four persons died in two separate road crashes in Ogun State on Friday, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has said. In the first accident, an okada rider and his passenger were killed when a bus rammed into them, along Ore-Benin-Ijebu-Ode expressway. The driver of the vehicle …

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) says he hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be over in under two years. Speaking in Geneva on Friday, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the Spanish flu of 1918 took two years to overcome. But he added that current advances in technology could enable …

The number of Ebola cases in the west of the Democratic Republic of Congo has risen to 100, double the number it was five weeks ago, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The first cases in the current outbreak were recorded in the capital of Equateur Province, Mbandaka. Ebola …

Nigeria will enforce the principle of reciprocity in granting permission to airlines to resume operations into the country as it opens its airspace, the Federal Government said on Thursday. According to the government, what this means is that only airlines from countries that allow flights from Nigeria will be allowed …

Mali’s Finance Minister Abdoulaye Daffe and another top official have been released by the military junta that ousted President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. The minister was among those detained after the military coup on Tuesday. Sabane Mahalmoudou, who worked for the president was among those arrested, and has been released alongside …

Madagascar on Thursday said it had fired its health minister as part of a government reshuffle, a move that came a month after he butted heads with the president for seeking outside help for coronavirus. The Indian Ocean island-nation saw COVID-19 cases surge in July despite an official campaign to promote a …

The World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations children’s agency have urged African governments to promote the safe reopening of schools during the coronavirus pandemic. They say prolonged closure of schools is harmful to students and want governments to invest in sanitation facilities to prevent the spread of coronavirus in …