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Zambian TV and radio presenter Dingindaba Jonah Buyoya has won the 2022 BBC News Komla Dumor Award. At 25, Buyoya is the youngest recipient of the award, launched in 2015, and the first of the seven winners so far from southern Africa. He is currently a TV host and reporter …

A 59-year-old man has been detained by the Police Command in Bauchi State for raping his neighbor’s 18-month-old child. The event was corroborated by the command’s spokesman, SP Ahmed Wakil, in a statement on Saturday, August 13. He claimed the suspect was apprehended after Nenkat Danladi, the baby’s mother, reported …

An eight-year-old girl lost her life after she drowned in a cesspit on Saturday night at Bamahu in the Wa municipality of the Upper West Region. The deceased, identified as Maafaaza Abu, is said to have fallen into a cesspit which was left open after sewage extraction, according to a …

A 29-year-old nursing mother from Oforikurom, a town near Samreboi in the Wassa Amenfi West Municipality, has been arrested for burning her four-year-old daughter’s lower area for misplacing her sandals worth GH₵8. According to the assembly member, Azure Suleman, the woman was allegedly punishing her child for misplacing her sandals …

15-year-old Kwadwo Emma, a first-year student of Agogo State SHS, has committed suicide at Abuakwa DKC in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Municipality of the Ashanti Region. According to sources, the incident was uncovered around 4 pm today (Friday, August 12, 2022”. The grandmother of the deceased, Madam Okyere Darkoah Rebecca, …

A 14-year-old boy has been praised for quickly rescuing a mother and her child from a burning house in Taifa. According to the ‘heroic’ rescuer, he was watching over his mother’s hairdressing salon when he heard cries for help and therefore sprang into action. The teenager, identified as Henry Laryea …

Abraham Gbodzi is an 86-year-old who has been working as a sewing machine repairer for 63 years, and he shares some secrets about what has kept him strong all these years. In a chat on SVTV Africa, Mr. Gbodzi revealed that laziness is unhealthy and causes weakness in the body. …

Medical Doctors at the Eastern Regional Hospital have amputated the leg of 39-year-old man Eric Kwabena Boafo alias Wayaas who sustained gunshot injury during chieftaincy clashes at Akropong -Akuapem Saturday, August 6, 2022. Eric Boafo was shot in the left leg around the fascia side of the knee. He was …

A 27-year-old lady at Abessim in the Sunyani Municipality of the Bono Region, Madam Hilda Asumani Embro Tuesday July 27, 2022 broke down in tears when the Sunyani Circuit Court presided over by Her Ladyship Justice Mavis Ekua Andoh sentenced her to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour. The sentence …

A father of 3-year-old boy who was allegedly neglected by school authorities at the St. Peter’s Cambridge School, Takoradi, has sued the school for its negligence. According to Astu Charan Kamal Kanta Kole, father of the boy, he took his son to the school because he was of the understanding …