2018

Recently, there has been a lot of talk and polls about how men find it irritating when women apply makeup on public transport. I don’t really know why, perhaps the poor delicate little princes will go into prophylactic shock if they inhale…
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Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has appointed the country's first female defence minister in a new cabinet in which half the posts are taken up by women. Aisha Mohammed, from the country's Afar region in the north-east, had served as…
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At least four people died and dozens more were injured when a train derailed near Morocco's capital Rabat, reports say. Reuters news agency quotes an official who says up to eight people may have died, with 80 more injured. The incident…
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An aid worker with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been killed in Nigeria by Islamist militants who kidnapped her last March. Hauwa Liman, a midwife, was killed days after kidnappers set a deadline. The ICRC said…
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In our series of letters from African journalists, Kenyan Joseph Warungu looks at the new strategy by the country's anti-corruption body to use the Bible to deter theft of public funds. You know you are in deep trouble when nothing else…
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Another shakeup has hit the police service as the Inspector General of Police, David Asante Apeatu, has re-assigned some 32 officers. An internal memo dated October 15, 2018, said the reassignments take immediate effect. Former Public…
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Businessman Alfred Woyome has said Deputy Attorney General Godfred Yeboah Dame has peddled lies following claims by the latter that he (Mr Woyome) had tried colluding with the now-defunct UT Bank to hide his landed assets from the state in…
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NDC Flag bearer-aspirant Alban Bagbin has appointed former Minister of Information, Fritz Baffour, as his Director of Campaign and Communication.Subsequently, the former Defence and Interior Committee Chair of Parliament and former Member…
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Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah, Monday called on the founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Jerry John Rawlings at his residence in Accra. The visit by Dr. Spio-Garbrah,a leading contender in the flagbearership race of the National…
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Former president John Mahama, in August, put speculation regarding his political future to bed and took his first concrete step towards competing in the 2020 presidential election. The 59-year-old, who suffered a stunning defeat at the…
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