A delegation led by the Vice President of Equatorial Guinea, Theodorin Nguema Obiang, son of the country’s long time president has had 16 million dollars worth of cash and luxury watches confiscated at an airport in São Paulo, Brazil. In October 2017, Mr. Obiang was sentenced to a three year suspended sentence in France on […]
Category: Africa
Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s failing health, government flies him to Singapore for treatment
Former president Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace have been flown to Singapore by the Zimbabwe government for medical treatment. There are rumors that the Zimbabwean former leader’s health is fast deteriorating. The couple and their aides left on a plane chartered by the government in the early hours of today Sunday, barely days after […]
Tanzania: parliament bans fake nails and eye lashes
The speaker of the National Assembly of Tanzania has banned lawmakers from entering parliament with fake nails and eye lashes. The ban has been extended to visitors who go to the legislature. The speaker, Job Ndugai announced the ban on Monday during a session of the house in Dodoma, Tanzania Short dresses and jeans have […]
Nigeria: President Buhari submits letter of intent to contest 2019 elections
Nigerian President Muhamadu Buhari has put to rest, speculations as to whether or not he will be contesting the 2019 elections. BestNewsGH.com can confirm that the president has submitted his name to the leadership of his party the All Progressives Congress (APC) to contest the 2019 presidential elections. The President took the opportunity to assure […]
Kenya’s Raila Odinga heads to Ghana to mourn Kofi Annan
Former Prime Minister of Kenya, Raila Odinga is expected in Ghana on Thursday as a guest at the burial ceremony of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in Accra. Mr. Odinga’s Spokesman, Dennis Onyango told the media Mr. Odinga who leads the opposition Orange Democratic party will arrive in Ghana after stopping over briefly in the […]
Sudan: Omar al-Bashir slashes ministries from 31 to 21
Sudan will form a new government within two days, President Omar al-Bashir said on Monday, a day after he dissolved the cash-strapped administration and slashed the number of ministries by a third to tackle a deepening economic crisis. Sudan has been looking to cut down spending as it grapples with a crisis-ridden economy battered in […]
Nigeria: Police open up on Officer who died while having sex in his office
Detectives attached to the homicide section, Lagos State Criminal Investigative Department (CID), Panti, Yaba, have launched investigation into the death of Sunday Eguakhide, a Superintendent of Police (SP), who died at the Police College on August 11, according to a report by the New Telegraph. The Public Relations Officer of the college, Mr. Oluwaseyi Sotayo, […]
Zimbabwe: Gov’t to ‘bribe’ men to marry more wives
The Zimbabwean government is set to induce men to marry two or more wives by giving them incentive packages on the condition that the men do not abuse their wives. Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa is advocating polygamy as a way of curtailing adultery and prostitution in the Southern African country. According to him, the country […]
Rwanda: African leaders move to revolutionize Agriculture
African leaders have initiated measures that will empower food crop, fish and livestock farmers across the continent, in move aimed at revolutionizing the Agriculture sector. The leaders who made the declaration to support the farmers were unanimous in their belief and conviction that Agriculture plays a very cardinal role in the economies of the various nations. […]
Akufo-Addo lobbies Alibaba group to make Ghana Africa’s Headquarters
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as part of his visit to the People’s Republic of China has met with co-founder and Chairman of Alibaba, a Chinese Multinational Holding Conglomerate specializing in e-commerce, retail, internet, Al and Technology Jack Ma.










