An online study by market research and consulting firm Ipsos has found that more than eight out of 10 online South Africans support the lockdown. “84% agree that a total lockdown was correct – given the risks of the Covid-19 pandemic,” its spokesperson, Mari Harris, said in a statement on Friday. …

A request for waiver on income taxes amounting to GH¢ 288,644,003.34 submitted to the legislature by the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, to help cushion health workers in both public and private health facilities, who are on the frontline fighting the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been granted. …

Sudan has criminalised carrying out Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), making it punishable by three years in jail. Some 87% of Sudanese women aged between 14 and 49 have undergone some form of FGM, according to the United Nations. In Sudan it is common for women to get the inner and …

The Tamale Teaching Hospital has commenced testing of Covid-19 samples for Northern, Savannah, Upper West, Upper East and North East regions in Tamale in the Northern region. Head of the Tamale Testing Center at the Tamale Teaching Hospital, Dr. Abass Abdul Karim told DGN Online that the facility can test …

Over 36,000 COVID-19 cases have been reported in African, with over 1,500 deaths recorded, as at Thursday, April 30, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). The international health agency also revealed that South Africa, Algeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, Guinea and Cote d’Ivoire are the most affected by COVID-19 in Africa (WHO …

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Daffiama Bussie Issa in the Upper West Region, Dr. Sebastian Sandaare says the Deputy Health Minister, Dr. Bernard Okoe Boye misled Parliament on his assessment of the meningitis situation in the regions of the north. On Thursday, April 30, Dr. Okoe Boye told Parliament …

South African anti-apartheid activist, Denis Goldberg has died at his home near Cape Town, aged 87. Goldberg was a prominent member of the ruling African National Congress and stood trial alongside Nelson Mandela. He spent 22 years in prison for his involvement with the ANC’s fight against apartheid, the racist …

US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo on Wednesday criticised South Africa and Qatar for accepting doctors from Cuba to battle the coronavirus, accusing the communist island of profiting from the pandemic. Cuba’s globe-trotting doctors have long been a source of diplomatic soft power and pride for Havana, but the US …

Two guards and five inmates of a prison in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown were killed on Wednesday in a riot described by authorities as an attempted escape, according to a new report released by police. The cause of the mutiny by the inmates of Pademba Road Prison, who set fire …

The University of Ghana has been ranked as the best university in the country according to the Times Higher Education World University Ranking. 2020’s ranking included almost 1,400 universities in 92 countries with the assessment on 13 performance indicators including teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook. University of Ghana was …

As part of the measures put in place by the government through the Ministry of Health(MOH)  and the Ghana Health Service (GHS) to help halt the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Ghana, it’s  sanctioned that all people living in Ghana must wash their hands frequently or sanitize their …

Domestic and sexual violence experts in Nigeria say they have seen an increase in the number of people asking them for help. It comes as the United Nations warns of a shadow pandemic with rising reports of physical and verbal abuse in homes around the world because of coronavirus lockdowns. …

The Enugu State Police Command has commenced investigation into the death of five members of a family in the outskirts of Enugu metropolis in Enugu State. The sixth member of the family, a boy, was however found in coma and had been rushed to a hospital The command’s Public Relations …

The Department of Basic Education has clarified that only senior officials in the education sector will return to work on 4 May to prepare for the eventual reopening of schools. There had been uproar and anxiety among parents after the department’s presentation to Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Basic Education, where …

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a dead man into office, naming the late Tobias Chukwuemeka Okwuru as a board member for a government agency, two months after he died. Mr. Buhari sent a letter to the country’s senate on Tuesday to confirm the list of 37 appointees but was …

The Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research has undertaken a total of one hundred thousand test samples of suspected COVID-19 cases especially across the southern parts of the Ghana since the outbreak of the disease some two months ago. Prof. Abraham Kwabena Annan who maintained that the cost of the …

Kenyans online are outraged after the ministry of health spent huge sums on tea, snacks and mobile phone airtime for its staff in the battle against coronavirus pandemic. Some 4m Kenyan shillings ($37,000; £30,000) has been spent on tea and snacks, while 2m Kenyan shillings has been used on airtime for …

The total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in South Africa is 5 350, with 103 deaths reported. This is an increase of 354 from Tuesday. “This is the highest number of cases in a 24 hour cycle recorded to date and represents a 73% increase relative to the day before,” …

Did you know you had a higher risk of opening up yourself to infections and the coronavirus with a weak immune system? A weak immune system opens you up to infections that your body cannot fight. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the immune system is a network …

Popular televangelist, Temitope Balogun Joshua, commonly referred to as T. B. Joshua, leader of The Synagogue Church of All Nations, has once again visited the prayer mountain to commune with the Almighty God for answers to the dreaded Covid-19. Photos of the prophet are all over social media where he …

Management and the staff of the Ankaase Methodist hospital in the Afigya Kwabre South District of the Ashanti Region say they will lay down their tools if persistent robbery attacks on their facility and their staff continue. The incessant attacks on the hospital led to the death of one member …

Mozambique’s security forces have killed nearly 130 Islamist militants in the past three weeks, the government says. Interior Minister Amad Miquidade said the gas-rich northern province of Cabo Delgado was now under government control. He said the military would carry out further operations to make sure all jihadist bases were …

The department of basic education appeared to backtrack on Wednesday from the announcement that schools would partially reopen for certain pupils next week. “We can’t say we are presenting a cast-in-stone plan. Yesterday, after presenting to the social cluster, they indicated that the date of May 6 is not realistic …

A Nigerian woman put up for sale on Facebook in Lebanon has been rescued – days after a man suspected of involvement in the advert was arrested. The advert caused an outcry in Nigeria. Chairperson of the Commission for Nigerians in the Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa told the BBC that the …

A Nigerian nurse was allegedly brutalized and abandoned by some Nigerian police officers of the Ondo State police force when she was on her way to attend to an emergency case at the hospital. The news was announced y a Facebook user named Fasasi Adelewa who wrote; “Nigerian Police With …

The world as we know it is reeling under the effects of the global pandemic that is COVID 19. The highly contagious, still mysterious disease, has found its way into almost every single corner of the world and though it seemed to take its time, in the beginning, it has …

Chad on Tuesday abolished the death penalty for terrorist acts, quashing an exception that was on the books for four years, Justice Minister Djimet Arabi told AFP. The Sahel country passed legislation in 2016 to abolish capital punishment, but made an exception for perpetrators of terrorism. Arabi, who proposed the …

Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum the Deputy Education Minister says universities will continue their lessons from their online sessions when school finally resumes. He said only basic and secondary school students will have the benefit of going over everything they have learnt so far with regards to the online and TV …

Mother of twins who were kidnapped in Ojoo area of Ibadan in Nigeria has sent a touching message to the abductors. In the emotionally laden video, the woman told the kidnappers to consider the number of years she has had to wait before she had the kids. As she spoke, she kept …

Nigerian Pastor TB Joshua has spent four days at an undisclosed “prayer mountain” to “present the nations” to God in prayer. The cleric was notably absent from the usual Sunday broadcast from Emmanuel TV’s studios on Sunday 26th April 2020 but clips of him ‘crying unto God’ amidst a large expanse of rocks …