Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are back. The apps, owned by Facebook, stopped working Monday for millions of users across the U.S., according to outage site Down Detector. Both the mobile and web browser editions of the apps were not working as of 11:42 a.m. ET, the site reported. They were down for more than six hours. “To the huge community ...

President Akufo-Addo says he has no favourite in the impending flagbearership race of the New Patriotic Party. According to him, his job is to hold the balance and provide a level playing field for all individuals seeking to contest. “My duty is to hold the balance, to make sure that there is a level playing field for all inside our ...

The DCE nominees for the Adaklu District and Agotime-Ziope Districts in the Volta region, have been rejected by members of their respective Assemblies during a confirmation exercise held on Monday. The two nominees, Phanuel Kadey Donkor for Adaklu and Emelia Emefa Adziamah for the Agotime-Ziope District failed to secure the 2/3 majority threshold needed to have them confirmed as the ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday, 4 October 2021, cut the sod for the construction of a 100-bed Trauma Hospital for the Obuasi Municipality. The construction of the Obuasi Municipal Trauma Hospital is being facilitated by a €55 million facility acquired by the Akufo-Addo government, which will also be used to remodel and construct three projects, namely Atiwa East ...

Twenty Seven players will open camp on Tuesday to begin preparations for this month’s FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 double-header qualifiers against Zimbabwe. This follows the decision of the Technical team to excuse five players from the squad ahead of the qualifiers. The excused players include, Ismail Abdul Ganiyu, Tariqe Fosu Henry, Joseph Alfred Duncan, Mubarak Wakaso and Emmanuel Gyasi. ...

South Africans have paid tribute to the second mayor to die in a car crash in under three weeks. Naledi local municipality mayor Neo Schalk was killed on Sunday morning after an accident outside of the town of Vryburg in North West province. South Africa’s Sunday Times reports that he was travelling with his wife on the way back from ...

After immediately ending his tour of the Ashanti Region, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is beginning one in the Eastern Region. The tour of his home region will take three days – from Tuesday to Thursday, October 7. President Akufo-Addo is expected to tour some sites of ongoing government projects and commission completed ones. Just like previous tours, he will ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has said he has no favourite in the flag bearer race of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP). “My duty is in two folds: one is; first of all, to hold a balance to make sure there is a level playing field for all of them [flag bearer hopefuls] because the decision has to be the decision ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo has dismissed claims that his government has abandoned the Ashanti Region which is tagged as NPP’s electoral “world bank”. The NPP since the fourth Republic in 1992 has won both in the Presidential and Parliamentary elections in the region. President Akufo-Addo has been slammed by his critics for failing to embark on any major development in the ...

Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth is nosediving amid revelations from a whistleblower and Monday’s widespread Facebook outages. Zuckerberg’s net worth dipped by $7 billion in a matter of hours as a stock selloff prompted Facebook to fall by roughly 5%. Zuckerberg’s wealth has now dropped to $120.9 billion, making him the fifth-richest person in the world behind Bill Gates, according to ...