About 500 buffaloes running away from a pride of lions drowned in Chobe River between Namibia and Botswana, yesterday November 9, 2018. After the lions finished their dinner, locals came with trucks and dishes to help themselves. Source: BestNewsGH.com
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has rejected China loan totaling to 325 Billion Shillings. In his defense the Kenyan president said it will be difficult to run the country with all the loans they have received from China. Already Kenya is facing huge amount of Loans from Both World Bank and China. Some of the collaterals […]
Rwanda has broken it’s current world record of 64% women representation in parliament. The new world record for women representation in parliament has now shot up to 67.5%. Out of 80, now women occupy 54 seats, which is 67.5%. The new record came out on Tuesday night after the National Electoral Commission announced the September […]
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has appointed Ghana’s former Electoral Commission Chairperson Charlotte Osei as deputy head of the sub-regional body’s pre-election mission to Nigeria ahead of the country’s 2019 polls. The mission is led by Mohammed N’fah Alie Conteh, Chairperson of the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone and will stay in […]
The regional governor of Tanzania’s largest city, Dar es Salaam Paul Makonda has vowed to arrest people suspected of being gay this week in an escalating crackdown on LGBT communities in the East African nation. “I have received reports that there are so many homosexuals in our city, and these homosexuals, are advertising and selling […]
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was feted like a superstar by his countrymen in Germany, whom he called on to return home and help build a new Ethiopia. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed just can’t stay out of the headlines. After making peace with Eritrea he appointed a slim 20-person cabinet, with an unheard of fifty percent of posts […]
Africa’s richest woman Mrs Folorunsho Alakija is set to become the owner of the most expensive building in West Africa, if not Africa. Famfa Towers is currently being built on Alfred Rewane Road in Ikoyi Lagos. The 22-floor edifice will set the billionaire oil mogul back a whooping N60billion or $165million but at a networth […]
Women in Kenya stormed the streets yesterday to protest the lack of men in the country to impregnate them. They accuse the men of spending all their time in drinking bars and beer parlours, usually returning home at night, weak and drunk and unable to perform. They want President Uhuru Kenyatta and his government to […]
Civil society, native doctors, communities and electricity consumers came together in their numbers to protest in Benin city, Edo state against the purported plan to renew the operational license of Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC). The Public Relations Officer of the Edo State Civil Society Organizations (EDOSCO), Osaze Edigin said the peaceful demonstration which will […]
Human rights lawyer Meaza Ashenafi was sworn in Thursday as the head of Ethiopia’s Supreme Court by the country’s parliament in a wave of appointments for women in top government positions. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed nominated Meaza, the country’s chief of staff announced. The Ethiopian leader has pushed for more female representation in his Cabinet. “She […]
The body of the missing army general, Retired Major-General Idris Alkali has been found. General Alkali’s remains were discovered in an abandoned well in a mining village, Guchwet in Shen of Jos South LGA of Plateau on Wednesday. The leader of the search and rescue operation, Brigadier General Umar Mohammed, while announcing the development, told […]
Kampala Archbishop Cyprian Kizito Lwanga has fronted a controversial proposal that seeks to have the central government deduct 10% from people’s monthly salary and forwarded to the church. Speaking at Saint Mary’s Cathedral Rubaga during mass, the Catholic Archbishop said many Christians don’t tithe and this affects projects by the church. “Whenever we ask for […]
