Lagos (AFP) – Nigeria’s acting president Yemi Osinbajo has ordered troops in to keep the peace in the restive state of Taraba after deadly clashes between herders and farmers. The vice-president, standing in for President Muhammadu Buhari, who is on indefinite medical leave, said Thursday the extra military battalions and police reinforcements had been sent. Police say 18 people were ...

What started as a normal act at a friend’s wedding ceremony has turned out to be a business venture raking in substantial cash after a video of his dance moves went viral on social media platforms. Biggie Happiness, as he has become known, due to his huge frame and affable nature is not deterred by his figure to do what ...

The Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly, together with the Central Regional Coordinating Council, has donated food items on behalf of the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to the Muslim community in Cape Coast. The donation is in support of this year’s Eid al-Fitr, which comes off on Sunday 25 June. The donation was made to the Central, Kotokuraba, and Abura Ahmadiyya ...

China and the United States agreed that efforts to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula should be “complete, verifiable and irreversible,” Chinese state media said on Saturday, reporting the results of high level talks in Washington this week. “Both sides reaffirm that they will strive for the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” a consensus document released by the ...

The United States (US) gave the Ghana government an amount of US$300,000 to cater for the two ex-Guantanamo Bay inmates being housed in the country for two years, Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby, George Loh, a former Vice Chairperson on parliament’s Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee, has revealed. The former MP for North Dayi, ...

Kumasi High School has secured a semi-final spot at the ongoing National Science and Maths Quiz after dismissing Wesley Girls High School, a female powerhouse. At the end of the five rounds of competition, Kumasi High School collected 43pts to keep ‘Wey Gey Hey’ 12 points away from victory. T. I. AMASS, Fomena, placed second but will find solace in the fact that ...

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has said pregnant girls should be expelled from school. Here Jackie Leonard Lomboma, who runs a centre for teenage mothers in the eastern city of Morogoro, gives her reaction: I was orphaned at three months old and raised by my grandfather in Tabora village in central-western region of the country. He struggled to provide me with ...

Kofi Adams, National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress has jumped to the defence of former President John Dramani Mahama, rubbishing claims suggesting the latter caused the NDC’s defeat in last year’s general election. Doubled as the 2016 national campaign organiser of the party, Mr. Adams insisted that irrespective of what others think, the former president is NDC’s best bet ...

Ayew brothers – Andre and Jordan Ayew and Leicester City defender Daniel Amartey have been excluded from the Black Stars squad to play Mexico and USA in a doubleheader friendly by head coach Kwesi Appiah. The trio were excluded because their clubs had raised fatigue concerns following a tough Premier League season. Despite training with the side during their sessions ...

Former president Jerry John Rawlings has applauded Ghana’s accomplished playwright Uncle Ebo Whyte for his dexterity and passion to put Ghana’s creative arts on a higher pedestal. Even though he admitted Ghana is playing a catch-up role to Nigeria in terms of film, music, theatre and others, he believes the efforts and success story of the Roverman Production CEO will ...