One year after it opened an office in Ghana, its first in Africa, Twitter has laid off almost the entire workforce in the West African country in a massive global layoff which has hit workers at the microblogging site since Elon Musk bought the company a week ago. The...
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The Seme Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) on Friday said that 16 Nigerians had been deported from Ghana for allegedly committing cyber crimes there. Dr Chukwu Emeka, the Controller of the Command, disclosed this during a news conference in Seme, Lagos State. According to Emeka, these are...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Dr Fatima Waziri-Azi, has ordered a manhunt of a trafficking suspect identified as Nkiru. NAPTIP’s spokesperson, Mr Vincent Adekoye, made this known in a statement he issued on Monday in...
Nigeria’s Super Eagles team B were on Saturday knocked out of the 2022 African Nations Championship (CHAN) qualifying race after losing 4-5 to Ghana via penalty shootout. The CHAN qualifier second leg match played at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja saw the hard-fighting Eagles score two unreplied goals...
Ghana’s Black Galaxies shot into the driving seat in their 7th African Nations Championship final qualifying fixture against Nigeria after a 2-0 win over Super Eagles B at the Cape Coast Sports Stadium on Sunday evening. After an evenly-balanced first period, during which goalkeeper Adeyinka Adewale quickly redeemed himself after...
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has picked Beninoise officials to take charge of Super Eagles Team B’s 7th African Nations Championship qualifying match against Ghana on Sunday. According to a statement from the Director, Communication, Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Ademola Olajire, Issa Mouhamed will be at the centre....
An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday ordered that a 60-year- old Ghanaian, Edward Quayson, be remanded in Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly defiling his neighbour’s daughter. The police charged Quayson, who resides at 14, Kalejaiye St., Sasha, Lagos with defilement. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs B. O Osunsanmi refused...
Accra/Brazzaville – Ghana has announced the country’s first outbreak of Marburg virus disease, after a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre laboratory confirmed earlier results. The Institut Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal received samples from each of the two patients from the southern Ashanti region of Ghana – both deceased and...
Accra – Ghana has announced the preliminary finding of two cases of Marburg virus disease and if confirmed these would the first such infections recorded in the country. Marburg is a highly infectious viral haemorrhagic fever in the same family as the more well-known Ebola virus disease. Preliminary analysis of...
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) says access to finance, markets and technologies for women will guarantee full transformation on the continent’s food system. Ms Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade, the Director-General, West Africa Regional Development and Business Delivery Office of the Bank, said this in a telephone interview with the News...
The Golden Eaglets of Nigeria will take on Burkina Faso in the final match of the 2022 WAFU B Under-17 tournament on Friday in Cape Coast, Ghana. In the competition’s second semi-final match on Tuesday, Burkina Faso edged hosts Ghana 1-0. This was courtesy of a second half penalty...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Arc. Sonny Echono has again made history as he bagged the first and most prestigious Medal of Honour Award by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA). Echono received the award in Accra, Ghana, at...
The All Progressives Congress (APC), Ghana Chapter, has urged the party’s Presidential Candidate, Sen. Bola Tinubu to pick a female as his running mate. The Chairman of APC Ghana, Mr Oghenosa Micheletti, who made the appeal in a statement on Friday, recalled that Tinubu, who fielded a female running...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Muhammadu Buhari will on Saturday in Accra, Ghana, attend an Extraordinary Summit of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government on the political situation in Mali and other parts of the sub-region. The President’s spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina disclosed this in...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) says Africa needs an annual investment of 32 to 40 billion dollars along the energy value chain to achieve universal access for electricity by 2030. The AfDB’s African Economic Outlook 2022 unveiled at the Bank’s Annual Meetings on Thursday in Accra, Ghana, said the...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $1.5 billion emergency programme to alleviate the impact of worsening food insecurity due to the Ukraine war, its director said on Monday. About 20 million farmers on the continent will benefit from the fund as Africa faces a shortage of at least 30...
Ebonyi soccer fans have hailed the Flying Eagles’ 2-0 defeat of Black Satellites of Ghana in the ongoing West African Football Union (WAFU) Zone B, U-20 competition in Niamey. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the Eagles beat defending champions Ghana on Sunday, in its first match...
Nigeria’s National Under-20 men football team, the Flying Eagles, on Sunday in Niamey beat their Ghanian counterpart 2-0 in the WAFU-B U-20 championship. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the opening match in Group B of the competition was played at the General Seyni Kountche Stadium, Niamey,...
Shatta Bandle is reportedly one of the richest and most influential social media celebrities in Ghana, the young billionaire has recently shared a new video on social media. In addition, the video clip was shared through the verified Instagram account of Shatta Bandle the moment he was showing off...
Director – General (DG), National Biosafety Management Agency (NBMA) Dr Rufus Ebegba, on Thursday said Nigeria has set standard for the African continent in the regulation of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). Ebegba spoke in Abuja while welcoming a team of regulators from Ghana’s Biosafety Management Authority who came to...