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1,713 Divorce in Zambia’s eastern province – the country’s main agricultural hub is on course to rise for a second year, reports the state-owned Zambia Daily Mail newspaper. In the last eight months close to 3,400 couples in the east filed for divorce, it reports. The cases were filed between January and August – with […]
2,005 Ugandan’s President Yoweri Museveni has said Europe’s return to coal-powered plants amid a biting energy shortage makes a mockery of its commitments to climate change targets. The veteran leader also criticized new conditions that allow for Western investment in African fossil fuel – but only if the oil and gas is being exported to […]
1,635 Amnesty International has condemned the sentencing of two TikTok stars in the northern Nigerian state of Kano for defaming the state governor Abdullahi Ganduje. The TikTokers, Mubarak Muhammad alias Unique Pikin and Nazifi Muhammad, had pleaded guilty and asked for leniency. But the judge ordered them to be given 20 lashes each, to pay […]
1,669 The Defence Minister, Dominic Nitiwul, has rubbished allegations made by the Minority in Parliament that the government is training mercenaries at the Presidency to disrupt 2024 polls. This follows allegation first made by social media commentator, Kelvin Taylor, that some mercenaries were being trained by a top security officer at the seat of government. […]
1,618 Dr Priscilla Twumasi Baffour, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics, University of Ghana (UG), has asked the Government to retool various State transport systems to lessen the economic burden on the travelling public. In October alone, drivers increased transportation fares three times to a cumulative 39 per cent after separate announcements in hikes […]
1,627 The Functional Executive Committee (FEC) of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has dissolved the Bono East Regional Elections Committee with immediate effect and put the region’s executives’ elections on hold. The decision by the NDC comes months after police arrested five people in connection with the attack on the Bono East NDC party office […]
1,631An immigration officer has testified that when he and other officers arrested some Chinese illegal miners in 2017 at Bepotenten in the Ashanti Region, they claimed they were working for En Huang a.k.a. Aisha Huang. He, however, said he did not see Aisha Huang at the mining site or saw her engaging in illegal mining […]
1,917 The Chief Director of the Ministry of Environment Science Technology and Innovation, Mrs. Cynthia Asare Bediako, has defended the number of registered Ghanaians participating in the ongoing Conference of Parties (COP 27) in Egypt. The number of participants at the ongoing climate conference got social media users and Ghanaians talking with some alleging 270 […]
1,515Lotto operators, agents and writers across the country have kicked against a decision by the National Lottery Authority (NLA) to reduce commissions paid to lotto writers from 30 per cent to 20 per cent. The lotto operators, writers and agents said the reduction in the commissions would make life difficult for them, especially in the […]
1,746 An economist, Professor Godfred Bokpin, has urged President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to cut the number of Ministers in his administration to 40. According to him the number of Ministers, coupled with other costs of operationalizing Ghana’s democracy such as maintaining 275 Members of Parliament and other Presidential appointees was too expensive for the […]