The government has renamed the University of Development Studies (UDS) Wa campus, S.D. Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies following the passage of the University for Business and Integrated Development Studies Bill 2018.The Minority MPs who were against the name changed refused to vote allowing the Majority to …

South African department chain Woolworths has pulled the plug on its Ghanaian business after closing its two stores there, in a second retreat from West Africa. “Following a comprehensive review of our operations in Ghana, we have closed our two stores in the country,” the Cape Town-based clothing and food …

A container that should have been full of computers donated by China to Kenya’s parliament has arrived empty. Officials are mystified by the disappearance as the seals on the container had not been broken. “I can’t understand how an empty container was loaded from China and shipped to Kenya,” the …

Pupils of Pakro Roman Catholic Primary and Junior High School near Nsawam in the Akuapim South District of the Eastern Region before vacating on Friday embarked on a demonstration against incessant defecation in their classrooms by unscrupulous persons in the Community. The pupils backed by their teachers marched through the …

Rwanda has closed part of its border with DR Congo, where an Ebola outbreak has killed more than 1,800 people in the past year. At least two people have died from the virus in the past month in the crowded Congolese border city of Goma. It is the worst Ebola …

Members of the National Social Studies Association (NaSSA) have called on the government to reconsider its decision to scrap social studies from the school curriculum.The group have threatened to demonstrate and picket the Jubilee House, if the subject is tampered with.Addressing a press conference in Kumasi on Wednesday, 31 July …

Members of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) have threatened to lay down their tools effective September 1, 2019, should the Ghana Education Service fail to halt monthly deductions of GHc10 from their salaries. The Ghana Education Service introduced an insurance policy which has become unpopular with many teachers. …

A second case of Ebola has been detected on Democratic Republic of Congo’s border with Rwanda, raising fears the deadly illness could spread. The case was confirmed in the city of Goma, home to two million people, authorities said. More than 1,600 people have died of Ebola in DR Congo …

Sudan’s authorities have ordered all schools nationwide to suspend classes indefinitely amid mass student demonstrations over the shooting dead of five people at a rally. A military council directive says their doors should remain closed from Wednesday, the state news agency said. Protesters gathered in cities including the capital Khartoum …

The Kenyan government has allegedly moved with speed to arrest and deport a man who has been masquerading as Jesus in the country, Officials have since signed the deportation order for the fake Jesus to leave the shores of the country Two church pastors who invited him, have also been …

The Kwesimintsim hospital in the Western Region is in dire need of financial support as government is unable to pay its nine months national health insurance payments amounting in excess of 2 million Ghana Cedis. The Administrator of the facility, Felix Kesse told Empire News’ Emmanuel Ohene-Gyan that the last …

An All Progressives Congress, APC, House of Representatives member, representing Yola South/Yola North/Girei Federal Constituency of Adamawa State, Mustapha Usman, has been sacked by the Supreme Court. A five-man panel of the court, in a unanimous judgment on Tuesday, upheld an appeal marked: SC/790/2019 from Abdulra’uf Abdulkadir Modibo also of …

An elderly female Nigerian pilgrim from Sokoto State was on Tuesday confirmed dead. The unidentified woman died in Madinah, Saudi Arabia, few days to the commencement of 2019 Hajj rites. Dr Hamidu Liman, Head of Medical team, National Hajj Commission of Nigeria (NAHCON), who made the disclosure while speaking with …

Following the proscription of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria by a Federal High Court In Abuja last Friday, the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered the arrest of the members and their leaders nationwide. He stated that the Shi’ites “will be treated like terrorists and enemies of state,” and …

Two 19-year-old U.S. citizens have confessed to a fatal knife attack on a Carabinieri police officer in Rome, police said on Monday. The alleged perpetrators were arrested after they were located in a hotel room, where police also found the knife believed to have been used in the attack behind …

Nigerian soldiers have been accused of arresting men with dreadlocks and those with tinted hair in Aba, a city in the south-eastern state of Abia. “The masked soldiers flogged many of their victims and used scissors to cut off the hair and then threw the victims into their vehicles and …

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) through the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) programme will from today begin the mass administration of anti-lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis) and river blindness (onchocerciasis) drugs across 126 endemic districts in the country. In all, 15 districts have been targeted for elephantiasis, 120 districts for river blindness and …

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released provisional results of candidates who wrote the 2019 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The examination body however withheld results of 48,855 (14.12%) candidates pending conclusion of investigations into various cases of examination malpractice detected during and after the conduct of …

The Kumasi Based first private radio station in Ghana, OTEC FM on Saturday July 27, 2019, drifted from their usual busy schedules to participate in the maiden edition of ‘’Exercise With Koda” Health Walk ashundreds joined yet another crowd puller to promote physical fitness. The event which saw hundreds of …

Thousands of Togolese from several West African countries stormed Lagos last Thursday to protest against Faure Gnassingbe’s attempts to run for a fourth term in office as president. The protesters who sang and danced to revolutionary songs in native Togolese dialects. Some of the placards carried by the protesters read: …

A marriage counsellor and relationship expert, Dr John Boakye, has cautioned married couples against enhancing their genitals for sexual pleasures, saying the fuss about genital enhancement is a “myth”. He said many people were obsessed with enhancing their body parts and spent huge sums of money in buying products for …

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A Lance Corporal identified as Moses Oguche attached to the 4 Brigade Nigeria Army has been arrested by men of the Edo State Police Command for allegedly stabbing a driver to death. The deceased driver simply known as Mr. Ogbimi works with the Big Joe Motors, Benin and had gone …

Troops of 1Division Nigerian Army have neutralized five bandits and arrested four others in two separate operations in Chikun and Igabi Local Government Areas of Kaduna State. Col. Ezindu Idimah, Deputy Director Army Public Relations, 1 Division Nigerian Army, made the disclosure in a press statement issued in Kaduna on …

Boko Haram gunmen on Saturday killed 23 mourners in Borno state in Nigeria’s restive northeast after they attended a funeral, local militia and residents said. ADVERTISING At around 1030 GMT, the attackers on three motorbikes opened fire on a group of men as they walked back from a funeral in …

Four Turkish nationals have been rescued a week after being kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria’s western state of Kwara, police say. The four, who are construction workers, were taken from a bar last week. The abductors had demanded a $1m (£800,000) ransom but police say no money was paid and …

            LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT Dear Sir, I believe and hope you very well and enjoying the full grace of our Lord Jess Christmas. Your Exellency, I will love to remind of view things you and your government are forgetting, Please I hope you witnessed …

The Minister of State in charge of Tertiary Education, Professor Kwesi Yankah has said that the new tertiary education policy document seeks to eliminate all barriers that restrict applicants from gaining admissions into tertiary institutions. According to him, the demand for pass mark in some core subjects before qualifying for …

A six-year-old child was one of the casualties in two separate shootings in Beacon Valley, Mitchells Plain on Saturday morning, Western Cape police said. The little boy was wounded in Lagonda Crescent when he was caught in the crossfire of rival gangs at about 09:30, police spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Andrè …

Having been arrested on May 2015; yesterday 26th August 2019, which commenced officially the 2019 legal vacation for Ghana’s Judiciary, marked the fifth time, Gregory Afoko ‘innocent until proven guilty according to law’, would endure painfully in the continue unlawful sub-human custody and degrading treatments from the ‘coercive’ powers of …