Home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi has approved essential travel for South Africans who want to return to countries where they are based. The decision, made after consultations with the department of international relations & co-operation and the national coronavirus command council, was announced on Saturday. Many South Africans who work or live overseas and were […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has made it to the list of the top 50 personalities on the African continent who are daring to be different and causing change. He has been captured as one of the Top 50 African Disruptors for 2020. Making the list alongside the President is Nigerian Business Magnate, Aliko Dangote of […]
Information available to BestNewsGH.com reveals that top government officials in South Sudan have tested positive to the novel COVID-19. First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar, his wife, the Minister for Defense as well as their bodyguards have all been confirmed positive. BestNewsGH.com is told other unnamed top government officials have also been confirmed positive. Source: […]
A Cameroonian Pastor has died of COVID-19. Pastor Frankline Ndifor contracted the virus after laying hands on patients who tested positive for the virus in an attempt to heal them. The pastor, according to BestNewsGH.com sources shot to prominence after he claimed he could deliver anyone suffering from the novel virus which has been declared […]
A British Aircraft which allegedly defied a ban aimed at curbing COVID-19 has been impounded by Authorities in Nigeria, according to the BBC. Nigeria’s Minister for Aviation, Hadi Sirika explained that the aircraft which is being operated by Flairjet was permitted to fly humanitarian aid, but ended up contravening a ban on passenger flights. BestNewsGH.com […]
A manhunt has been launched for a man who sexually assaulted his wife after accusing her of infidelity on Saturday May 16. The police in Tharaka South Sub-County in Kenya said the suspect first persuaded his wife to move from their Marimanti township home, fearing that he would be arrested after having travelled from Nairobi […]
Officials and experts are sounding the alarm as Malawi shifts to top campaign gear with giant rallies for an unprecedented presidential re-run despite the coronavirus outbreak. The southern African country will hold elections in just under two months after the Constitutional Court overturned the results of last year’s controversial elections, which handed President Peter Mutharika […]
Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arrested two Chinese nationals for allegedly offering a $250,000 bribe in local currency to one of its senior officials. Meng Wei Kun and Xu Koi were arrested on Tuesday inside in their office in the northern city of Sokoto as they gave the money […]
The agriculture agency will give $40 million to a fund launched by Idris Elba to help farmers in poor nations. The Thomson Reuters Foundation spoke to IFAD’s president ahead of the announcement. Since the coronavirus pandemic began to hit developing nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has been finding ways to help rural […]
The European Union (EU) has blacklisted Ghana among several other countries for money laundering. Three other African countries have been blacklisted – Botswana, Mauritius and Zimbabwe. The EU said under the Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD), the Commission has revised its list, taking into account developments at the international level since 2018 and that the “new list is now […]
Kenyan health officials are giving communities safer options to substitute traditions that require physical contact in the wake of coronavirus outbreak Instead of a traditional handshake between traders in northern Kenya’s animal markets to signify the completion of a trade deal, health officials are showing them how to use herders’ sticks or an elder’s stick. […]
The Emir of Kaura-Namoda in Zamfara State, Mohammed Ahmad Asha, is dead. He died while waiting for his result of COVID-19 test. The monarch’s death is coming less than 24-hours after the Emir of Rano, Dr. Tafida Abubakar Ila II, passed on Saturday, after a brief illness. His younger brother, the Dan Jekan Kaura Namoda, […]
