AFRICA

Dozens of Accra High students admitted over suspected food poisoning

Some 150 students of the Accra High School have been rushed to the Adabraka Polyclinic after eating meals served them at school. Information available to 3news.com indicates the students complained of stomach upset after taking the meals and were subsequently rushed to the hospital Monday dawn. They are all suspected …

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100 fake professors nabbed in Nigerian Varsities

No fewer than 100 fake professors have been uncovered in Nigerian universities by the National Universities Commission, NUC. Prof Abubakar Rasheed, the commission’s Executive Secretary, disclosed this in the NUC’s November bulletin. Rasheed said the NUC published the details of the fake professors on its website and also sent the …

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Nigeria’s desperate battle to end open defecation

On October 1, 2019, a 12-year-old boy known as Seyi, who lived in the Surulere area of Lagos, was found defecating in the open. Apparently the boy, who also hawked food items in the streets, had been under pressure to use a toilet. Unable to find one immediately, he had …

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Pastors arrested for conducting fake miracles

Personnel of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested four suspects, including two pastors, for allegedly staging fake miracles to defraud unsuspecting members of the public in the Lekki and Epe areas of the state. The alleged pastors, Favour David and Favour …

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Make me proud – Akufo-Addo to final year free SHS students

President Akufo-Addo has charged final year students and first beneficiaries of his flagship Free Senior High School programme to make him proud by passing decisively, their upcoming final exams scheduled for May and June 2020. Addressing the Management and the students body of the St. Mary’s Senior High School in …

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Nigerian pastors arrested for conducting fake miracles

Personnel of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested four suspects, including two pastors, for allegedly staging fake miracles to defraud unsuspecting members of the public in the Lekki and Epe areas of the state. The alleged pastors, Favour David and Favour …

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Mugabe left behind ‘$10m in cash’

Zimbabwe’s late President Robert Mugabe left behind $10m (£7.7m) in the bank and several properties in the capital, Harare, the state-owned Herald newspaper has reported. Mugabe, who died in September at the age of 95, had failed to leave a will, prompting legal authorities to call a meeting this week …

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Mugabe left behind ‘$10m in cash’

Zimbabwe’s late President Robert Mugabe left behind $10m (£7.7m) in the bank and several properties in the capital, Harare, the state-owned Herald newspaper has reported. Mugabe, who died in September at the age of 95, had failed to leave a will, prompting legal authorities to call a meeting this week …

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Be careful of what you eat – College of Medicine president

The president of the Accra College of Medicine is advising the public how to survive into the new year. Professor Afua Hersey spoke said people should be health cautions stressing they “should be careful of what they are eating”. She spoke to JoyNews at the 9th Annual Psychiatry Debate, themed …

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Why the floods in East Africa are so bad

Rain-triggered disasters, including flash floods and landslides, have killed at least 250 people and affected some three million people across East Africa in recent weeks, with about half of the deaths occurring in Kenya. Homes have been demolished, crops destroyed and roads swept away, hampering relief efforts in far-flung areas. …

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No basis to condemn free SHS policy – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says infrastructure and other logistical challenges are not enough basis to condemn the free senior high school (SHS) policy. He said the government was assiduously tackling the challenges, and encouraged teachers and students to give off their best to ensure that the policy succeeded. President …

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We owe no teacher an allowance or salary arrears – NAPO

Minister of Education, Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh has stated that no teacher has any course to claim arrears in salaries and allowances under the Nana Akufo-Addo presidency. Speaking at the 70th Anniversary commemoration of the Prempeh College where he is an alumnus, Dr. Opoku Prempeh insisted, “between 2017 and now, …

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Zambia in row with US envoy over jailing of gay couple

Zambia’s Foreign Affairs Minister Joseph Malanji plans to send a protest letter to Washington over last week’s comments by the US ambassador on the jailing of a gay couple. Japhet Chataba and Steven Samba were sentenced on Wednesday to 15 years in prison by the High Court in the capital, …

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The Founder/President of NMDI bagged a Leadership Award

The Founder/President Nkemdi Mordi Development Initiative(NMDI) Bringing Hope, Lighting Lives; bagged a Leadership Award (Outstanding Woman Of The Year 2019  it was conferred on her on the 28th of November 2019 at Sheraton Hotel Abuja Nigeria. Hear Her ; I was honoured family, yes I was honoured to God be …

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SHS 3 Boy Kills 16-Year-Old Girl for Denying him Sex

Broadcast Ghana has gathered from the foreign front that a boy has sent a young girl to the afterlife having declined to bed with him. A local media report says Police in Kenya are holding a 17-year-old boy who allegedly stabbed and killed a girl aged 16 for rejecting his …

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Rwanda, DRC Begin Joint Border Services

The Rwanda-DR Congo border of La Corniche, popularly known as Grande Barrière, on Saturday started operating as a One-Stop Border Post (OSBP), according to the Directorate General of Immigration and Emigration. The objective of this is to enhance trade through the efficient movement of goods, persons and services. “Today, La …

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Kenyans to use mobile phone numbers as post office boxes

Kenyans will now be able to rent outpost office boxes using their mobile phone numbers and consequently receive letters and parcels through a service provided by the country’s biggest telecoms operator Safaricom. The company, which is part-owned by South Africa’s Vodacom, targets 5 million new users of the service as …

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Another teen stabbed to death near Clifton beach

Western Cape police are investigating a case of murder after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed and killed near Clifton Beach on Saturday night – two months after an 18-year-old UCT student was stabbed there. “According to information, last night at about 22:45, members of law enforcement saw the victim with …

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Ghana Health Service prepares to fight CSM

The Public Health Unit of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) in the Upper East Region has engaged its counterparts from Togo and Burkina Faso in a cross-border meeting to share information on diseases of epidemic potential among the three countries. Dr Josephat Nyuzaghl, the Upper East Regional Deputy Director in …

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Zuma fails in court challenge over corruption case

South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma has failed in his legal attempt to get a decision on whether or not he should face trial for corruption taken to the Supreme Court. Last month, the High Court in Pietermaritzburg ruled that he should go on trial on charges relating to an …

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9-year-old girl commits suicide

A nine-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide at her guardian’s home located in Ankpa quarters extension in Makurdi metropolis of Benue State. It was gathered that the incident happened in the early hours of Wednesday and that the body was found in the bathroom. The state’s Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO) …

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