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About 21 passengers have been seriously injured in an accident at Gomoa Odumase near Anteadze on the Kasoa Cape Coast Highway. The accident was between a sprinter Benz bus with the registration GW 9678-12 and VW Jetta GT 8661-09.   In the last 24 hours, 45 passengers have been injured …

Ghanaian actor and YouTube skit maker, Ebenezer Akwasi Antwi, also known as Ras Nene or Dr. Likee has lost his 3 month baby girl. According to Kumawood actors, Komfo Kolege and colleague KyinkyinaaTwaan, who broke the news, the baby died in the early hours of Tuesday, February 28, 2023. The …

Canada will ban video app TikTok from all government-issued devices starting on Tuesday. The decision follows a review by Canada’s chief information officer, and the app “presents an unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security”, a government spokesperson said in a statement. A TikTok spokesperson said the company was …

A television reporter has allegedly been shot dead near Orlando, in Florida, US. The deceased has been identified as 24-year-old Dylan Lyons. Photojournalist Jesse Walden was also reportedly injured during the shooting. Local US media reports indicated that two other persons were killed in Wednesday’s two attacks in Pine Hills, …

Three people have died after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey on Monday, weeks after a deadly quake devastated the region. More than 680 people have been injured in Turkey and Syria. Turkey’s disaster and emergency agency Afad said the tremor occurred at 20:04 local time (17:04 GMT), followed by …

The Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research (ISSER) has revealed that 10.7 percent of teenagers aged between 15 and 19 got impregnated last year. That is about 102,000 teenagers countrywide. According to ISSER’s latest report, this is one of the key issues now affecting teenagers across the country. The …

Veteran Nollywood actress, Maureen Okpoko, has cried out for financial assistance over the sudden loss of her sight. In a video shared online, the actress revealed that she urgently needs medical attention or would completely lose her sight. The ailing thespian explained that she needs money to treat her vision …

Protests have broken out in parts of southern Nigeria as anger mounts over the scarcity of cash following the central bank’s controversial decision to scrap old banknotes and to replace them with new ones that are not widely available.   Two people are feared dead after the security forces foiled …

A Kenyan senator was ejected from parliament after attending a session while wearing a white suit stained red in an apparent menstrual activism campaign. Gloria Orwoba, of the ruling coalition, is due to table a motion on a bill to provide for free sanitary pads on Wednesday as part of …

“Some people are looking for my trouble. And I came here prepared,” joked Pastor Uche Aigbe on Sunday as he took to the pulpit brandishing an assault rifle. Under Nigerian law, it’s only legal to carry a gun if the Inspector General of Police grants you a licence.   It’s …