It has emerged that four out of every ten Ghanaians who apply for a United Kingdom Visa from Accra are refused. Ghana’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Papa Owusu Anokmah, who revealed this to JoyNews says it is the case now because a number of Ghanaians who apply to visit the United Kingdom end up staying permanently in that ...

Facebook’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is to testify before the US House Commerce Committee regarding the firm’s use and protection of user data. Facebook has faced criticism after it emerged it had known for years that Cambridge Analytica had harvested data from about 50 million of its users. He will testify before the committee on Wednesday, 11 April. Committee chairman ...

Snapchat has launched a feature that enables up to 16 people to take part in a live chat together, using either video or just their voices. The app’s members can also start tagging each other by username, using the @ symbol in their posts. The changes will roll out over the coming weeks, the firm said. Snapchat came under fire ...

A company attempting to map people’s brains so their memories can be stored in computers has lost its link to one of the United States’ top universities. US start-up Nectome revealed its brain back-up plan last month, warning at the time that the process involved would be “100% fatal”. A number of neuroscientists subsequently poured scorn on the plan. The ...

An advert showing British Olympic diver Tom Daley using a smartphone at a swimming pool has been banned on the grounds that similar behaviour by consumers would damage the device. HTC has promoted the ad on social media since mid-2017. But an investigation by the UK’s advertising watchdog discovered that the device’s own instructions said the phone should not come ...

Spy kits that can track mobile phones and intercept calls and messages have been discovered in Washington and beyond, the US government has said. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says it has observed “anomalous activity” consistent with the use of so-called stingrays. They could be used by foreign spies or criminals, although the DHS said it did not know ...

President Yoweri Museveni has reportedly reached out to the head of the Catholic church in Uganda over reports that the latter is behind a plot to overthrow the government. State House said the president and the Archbishop of Kampala Catholic Archdiocese, Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, spoke over the phone on Monday and agreed on a way forward. The discussion followed the ...

Singer Belinda Nana Akua Amoah popularly known as Mzbel has said that songs released in recent times do not make sense. According to her,songs of yesteryears conveyed a message to the public but the new generation only wants hit songs so fail to spend time on producing songs that communicate to the listener. In an interview on GTV, the ’16 ...

A half century after Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.‘s death, celebrities have been remembering him and reflecting on how much progress has been made in racial equality in the decades since his assassination. “The fact that I’m walking this carpet starring in a movie, that’s the impact he had on my life,” said Oscar-nominated actress Taraji P. Henson. “There has ...

A Libyan appeals court cleared one of the sons of late leader Muammar Gaddafi on Tuesday of charges of murdering a footballer before Libya’s 2011 uprising, the justice ministry said. Saadi Gaddafi, who has been held in the capital Tripoli since his extradition from Niger in 2014, was found not guilty of “murder, deception, threats, enslavement and defamation of the ...