Benin’s Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni secured a landslide victory in the West African nation’s April 12 presidential election, garnering over 94% of ?the votes, provisional results from the electoral commission showed on Monday. Sacca Lafia, head ?of the country’s ?independent … Read more →
The Deputy Minister of Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has jumped to the defense of the Governing Board of the National Service Scheme (NSS) saying they did nothing wrong. According to the Minister, the preliminary report from the Bureau of National … Read more →
Kenya’s high court has ordered the country’s education authorities to amend the name on a school certificate of a woman who was born male. The name should be changed from Andrew Mbugua to Audrey Mbugua, it ruled. Audrey Mbugua has … Read more →
If you missed April’s total eclipse of the moon, now’s your chance.But you’ll need to get up early. But don’t bother if you are in Africa. It also will be visible across Australia and much of Asia. Only Europe, Africa and … Read more →
It has emerged that the President, John Mahama, ordered the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) to investigate the operations of the National Service Secretariat (NSS). This is according to a member of the Governing Board of the NSS, Isaac Annan … Read more →
Officers discovered body parts of Volke’s girlfriend in a pot on the stove, while other parts of the Indonesian woman’s mutilated body were found in garbage bins outside the apartment, according to local media. The woman has been named locally … Read more →
The Spanish health minister has confirmed that a nurse who treated a victim of Ebola in Madrid has tested positive for the disease. The nurse is said to be the first person in the current outbreak known to have contracted … Read more →
A former inmate at Ghana’s borstal institute for juveniles, Moses Louis Ametemey, has revealed that minors at the facility are allowed to watch hardcore pornography. The correctional and re-formational centre is meant for holding minors, who commit serious crimes. Ametemey, … Read more →
A 7-year-old girl has drowned in a galamsey pit at Apapam, a community at Kyebi, in the Eastern region. The little girl, in the company of her siblings, was asked to fetch water from a nearby river when the incident … Read more →
The Kasoa District Police Command has arrested a 26-year-old teacher for defrauding some persons under the pretext of helping them to secure admission to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) through protocol. Issah Kabiru Gerard, who claimed to be a staff of the Text and Administration Department of the West … Read more →
A couple, whom the police accuse of making pick-pocketing their source of livelihood, are now in the firm grip of the law enforcers. Paul Akuoko, 25, and his wife, Elizabeth Boatemaa, 30, are suspected to belong to a stealing syndicate … Read more →
The Mampong Police has arrested a security man in his 30s for allegedly beating his one and half year old daughter to death because she could not walk. Kwabena Acheampong was said to have, for a while, been frustrated by his … Read more →
Two teenagers are in police custody for allegedly breaking into a house at Ofankor in Accra to steal two flat-screen television sets. The names of the suspects, who are aged 15 and 16, are being withheld. The suspects, said to … Read more →
Two teenagers are in police custody for allegedly breaking into a house at Ofankor in Accra to steal two flat-screen television sets. The names of the suspects, who are aged 15 and 16, are being withheld. The suspects, said to … Read more →
A woman in Sweden has given birth to a baby boy using a transplanted womb, in a medical first, doctors report. The 36-year-old mother, who was born without a uterus, received a donated womb from a friend in her 60s. … Read more →
A man is set to marry his former stepmother after months of battling with French authorities. Eric Holder, 45, will marry his father’s former wife 48-year-old Elisabeth Lorentz in the small village of Dabo in Alsace-Lorraine, in northeastern France. Although … Read more →
Four members of a family the U.S. Ebola patient was staying with were confined to their Texas home under armed guard Thursday as the circle of people possibly exposed to the virus widened, while Liberian authorities said they would prosecute … Read more →
A woman so fed up with the dating scene and single life has become the first person in Britain to marry HERSELF. Grace Gelder even ‘proposed’ to herself on a park bench and staged a full wedding ceremony with 50 … Read more →
THE GOVERNING Board of the National Service Secretariat (NSS) has directed the Management of the Scheme to proceed on leave with immediate effect. Those affected are the Executive Director of the Scheme, Alhaji Alhassan Imoro, and his two Deputies, Michael … Read more →
These two female teachers have found themselves in trouble after taking their teaching duties just a little too far with one of their students. 34 year old Shelley Dufresne and 24 year old Rachel Respess, both English teachers, were arrested … Read more →
A list of 23 directors of the National Service Scheme (NSS) who paid GH¢200,000 as bribe to investigators of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) to conceal a GH¢7.9 million financial canker at the NSS has emerged. A total of … Read more →