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A federal judge has temporarily blocked an abortion ban in Alabama that would criminalise the procedure at any stage of a pregnancy in most cases. Abortion rights groups sued the state after Republican lawmakers approved the bill in May, but both sides expected the law to be blocked in federal …

At least 22 bodies were recovered from a landslide in Bafoussam in Western Cameroon on Tuesday. 34 others are reported missing following heavy torrential rain that caused the deadly landslide. “We present the government’s solidarity with Bafoussam. I think it is useful that, without delay the government support the people …

Member of Parliament for Ablekuma South, Alfred Okoe Vanderpuije, has said the government was implementing the free Senior High School (SHS) policy wrongly. Yes, it’s constitutional that we allow our children have access to free SHS, no one is against that but the way they (government) are implementing it is …

President Akufo Addo has commended his wife First Lady of the Republic, Mrs Rebecca Akufo Addo for her selfless service to Ghana in the last three years in various areas of public and social support. Addressing attendees of the 6th annual conference of the Merck Foundation Africa Asia Luminary at …

Lawyers of businessman, Ibrahim Mahama, who won a defamation case against Communications Director of the Ghana National Gas Company, Ernest Owusu Bempah and the Despite Group, are getting ready to get the GH¢300,000 awarded him. The court presided by Justice Georgina Mensah Datsa (High Court, Accra) granted all the reliefs, …

The Airport immigration officers have been accused of illegally taking money from foreign nationals and refusing to issue receipt after payment. According to Business and Financial Times, these officers ‘pocket’ visa on arrival cash leading to revenue leakages. A South African national who arrived in Ghana on October 24,2019 was …

Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin II, has launched the Asona Family Educational Foundation and Scholarship to assist members of the Asona clan to get a good tertiary education. At a durbar of all the Asona Chiefs in Ghana at Kyebi, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin II said the fund seeks to …

Former President John Mahama has said although the outflow of professionals and technocrats from the country to the diaspora can be disadvantageous to the economic growth of Ghana, it is not entirely bad since it has certain benefits, too. On the contrary, Mr Mahama believes Ghanaians living abroad make significant …

Over 200 aggrieved Menzgold customers trooped the Osu verification center on Tuesday as part of processes of recovering their held up investments. However, these aggrieved customers have expressed frustration with the slow pace of the process. Menzgold on October 23 announced outlets in the various regions for their customers to …

Former Ghana Football Association Communication Director Ibrahim Saanie Daara has stated that the association cannot afford his charges should they come calling for his services for the General Secretary position. Saanie Daara is among the many personalities who have been linked to the position to replace Isaac Addo following the …

South Africa’s unemployment rate has worsened to 29.1%, the highest level in more than 11 years. Statistician-General Risenga Maluleke on Tuesday announced the findings of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey for the third quarter of 2019, at a briefing in Pretoria. The unemployment rate increased 0.1 percentage point from the …

The case in which three police officers are facing allegations of stealing US$400 from a car belonging to a Harare woman was last week deferred to Monday next week to allow the court to gather evidence. Gladmore Munodawainda (34), Edson Ngwenyama (27) and Lovejoy Zamba (28), who are stationed at …

The US House of Representatives plans to take its first formal vote this week on the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the vote “sets forth due process rights for the President and his Counsel”. The president and his allies have argued the lack of …

The Federal Government has said almost half of Nigeria’s population, about 90 million people, live in extreme poverty. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Mrs Sadiya Farouq, declared this in Abuja on Monday when she appeared before the House Committee on Women Affairs and Social Development to …

The University of Ghana is looking into the allegations against staff in a BBC investigation, which found teachers harassing would-be students. The “Sex for Grades” documentary showed university lecturers at both the University of Ghana and the University of Lagos propositioning female reporters who were posing as students. Ghanaian activist …

Boris Johnson will try for a fourth time to secure an early general election, after MPs rejected his plan. The PM will now ask MPs to approve a 12 December election through a one-page bill – which needs the support of fewer MPs than his last attempt. But No 10 …

Four years ago Sandile Mkhize found out he was married to his mother, and his life has been on hold ever since. The 38-year-old from Adams Mission, near Durban, was gearing up to get married when the Department of Home Affairs told him he couldn’t because he was already legally …

People with psychiatric disorders may want to pass on the joint — at least until further research is done, a new Australian study suggests. The paper, published Monday in The Lancet Psychiatry, looked at 83 previous studies conducted over almost four decades on medical cannabinoids, including products from the cannabis …

US officials said Monday that the body of Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was buried at sea as fresh details surfaced about the US special forces operation that led to his death over the weekend. Syrian Kurds claimed to be a key source of the intelligence that led …

Ghana’s graded and sealed (G&S) cocoa arrivals hit 44,000 tonnes between the start of this year’s harvest on October 1 and October 17, up 7.3% from the same period of the previous season, data from marketing board Cocobod showed on Monday. G&S is cocoa that has been quality checked and …

The seat of government; The Jubilee House, has handsomely rewarded the Military Police personnel, who joined the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kalypo fever, ahead of the 2016 General Elections, with enlistment into the Ghana Military Academy, to become a commissioned officer of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF). Corporal Osei Owusu, …

Scientists say they’ve pinpointed the homeland of all humans alive today to a region south of the Zambesi River. The area is now dominated by salt pans, but was once home to an enormous lake, which may have been our ancestral heartland 200,000 years ago. Our ancestors settled for 70,000 …

Former President John Dramani Mahama has told party members that he is on a mission to rescue Ghana from the abysmal performance of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. According to the former President, Ghanaians are “disillusioned” under the direction of the Akufo-Addo led government. “I think that Ghanaians are more …

Residents of Shiabu Night Market, a community within Ablekuma West Municipality in the Greater Accra Region, have been thrown into a state of shock and dismay after their neighbour, a man believed to be in his late 30s, an usher of the Assembly of God Church, Mamprobi branch, allegedly murdered …

A man is in the grip of the police for allegedly stabbing his wife to death in the presence of his children at Dansoman Shiabu in Accra. The suspect, Prince Korley Commodore, 48, was married to his wife, Dorcas Anafi Commodore, 37, for nine years. Their children, both girls, aged …