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Nigeria’s fuel shortage and a month-long power blackout have converged into a perfect storm scenario, paralysing the economy of Africa’s most populous country, causing social anxiety and raising questions about the country’s self-sufficiency in a resource it produces. As the sixth world crude oil producer, with a significant chunk of …

An Executive Committee member of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Nana Oduro Sarfo, has revealed that the President of the country’s football governing body, Kurt Okraku, and his vice, Mark Addo, are aware of the players invited for the 2022 World Cup playoff games against Nigeria. With less than a week for the Black …

A Gauteng man who set his former lover’s home alight and killed her five-year-old sibling in the process, has been sentenced to life in prison. Tebogo Daniel Maphopho was sentenced in the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg on Thursday after he was convicted for arson, murder, and attempted murder. The …

The Kumasi Circuit Court has sentenced 21-year-old Priscilla Appiah to two (2) and half years in prison with hard labour for conspiring with her mother to steal a newborn baby at the Kumasi South Hospital in June 2019. The court last year sentenced her mother, 45-year-old Theresah Asamoah, to six …

Mbali Ntuli, a prominent political figure in the DA, has resigned as a member of the party and as a member of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature. In a resignation letter on Thursday, she said her departure was a necessary move and that it did not come easily. “Change is good. It …

The Asakaa boys have waged war against popular Kumasi-based radio presenter, DJ Slim, on social media. This comes after DJ Slim called them out for blacklisting media houses and failing to grant interviews after they rose to fame. According to Slim, he granted the Asakaa boys’ their first interview yet …

Hundreds of thousands of condoms, mosquito nets and tuberculosis drugs worth $100,000 (£77,000) are alleged to have disappeared from a warehouse operated by the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (Kemsa). They are believed to have been stolen and resold on the black market and to private chemists, according to the UN’s …

Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has charged academia as well as media practitioners to utilize the RTI law, Act 989, to obtain reliable information from state institutions for their work. Answering questions in Parliament on Tuesday, Mr Nkrumah said the law which imposes an obligation on public institutions to provide …

An unidentified person suspected to have been killed by assailants has been found half-buried at a place called RTF near the cemetery road of Bole in the Bole District of the Savannah Region heightening fears among residents of the town. The latest strange killing and half burial discovered on Sunday, …

Isaac Kwesi Kyemenu Sarsah, a Primary School teacher is in the grips of the Apam District Police Command in the Central Region, for allegedly beating his wife to death. The 32-year-old female teacher of the Gomoa Ajumako D/A Primary School whose name has been given only as Yaa Linda was …