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Stormzy has pledged £10 million to UK organisations, charities and movements tackling racial inequality, justice reform and black empowerment. The grime star said he will make his donation over the next 10 years. “We have to fight against the odds of a racist system stacked against us and designed for us to fail from before we are even born,” he said. He has also funded black British students at Cambridge University. Stormzy said he was making his £10m donation to fight racial inequality because “the uncomfortable truth that our country continuously fails to recognise and admit, is that black people…

Burundi’s cabinet has suspended playing secular music in public places during the seven-day mourning announced by the government following the death of President Pierre Nkurunziza. The mayor of the commercial capital, Bujumbura, Freddy Mbonimpa said secular music was banned but people could still play gospel music. The governor of the capital, Gitega, Venant Manirambona ,said songs “praising God” were allowed. Mayor Mbonimpa in a statement said leisure activities were suspended during the mourning period. He said secular music in bars, restaurants, hairdressing salons, cars and all other places of gathering was banned. Only wedding parties, funerals and mourning wakes are…

There have been 498 new cases of coronavirus recorded within the last 24 hours. The latest update by the Ghana Health Service (GHS) on its website puts the total figure at 10,856 from the previous 10,358 on Thursday. The Service was quiet on the source of the latest cases but the distribution is spread among the Greater Accra, Ashanti and Western regions with the Upper East Region recording over 80 cases. There are no deaths but six patients are in “critical” conditions while 16 are in “severe” conditions. Four continue to be on ventilators. About 97 others have recovered from…

The Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr Anthony Nsiah-Asare, has indicated that the bi-weekly press briefings that is organized by the Ministry of Information on the coronavirus situation in Ghana have not stopped. He told Alfred Ocansey on 3FM’s morning show Sunrise Friday, June 12 that although he does not speak for the Information Ministry, he will assure the general public that the programme has not been abrogated. The number of Covid-19 cases in Ghana has gone up to 10,856, the Ghana Health Service has reported. The number of recoveries has also risen to 3,921. However, the death toll remains 48.…

Other parts of the world also do have opposition parties just like us …but they have a common interest of developing their nation regardless of differences in ideas and political colors They follow a common agenda and a grand master plan to totally eradicate poverty and economic freedom of their citizens They understand that it’s a human rights abuse for a citizen to go hungry or denied a decent abode of living but we don’t So regardless the debates on the floor of parliament, the citizens have basic necessities like food, water, good roads, decent places to live, quality education,…

The chiefs of Gomoa Ojobi in the Gomoa East District of the Central Region has banned a 57-year-old pastor of the African Faith Tabernacle Church from churching in the community after having an affair with his aunt who already has 11 children. The chiefs also fined Pastor Peter Inkoom three sheep, three bottles of Schnapps and an amount of GH¢300 to be used to perform the necessary rituals to cleanse the community. Already, Pastor Inkoom has reportedly presented the bottles of Schnapps and the sheep for the rituals but the chiefs are awaiting the amount. The Odontenhene of Gomoa Ojobi…

Sony has given gamers a first look at the design of its next console as well as some of the titles it will play. The PlayStation 5 has a black core surrounded by curved white edging, and a blue glow. Two sequels to bestselling PS4 releases were among the standout games announcements – Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Horizon: Forbidden West. Sony’s machine will launch alongside Microsoft’s rival Xbox Series X before the end of the year. “While there’s still a lot of unanswered questions about the PS5, namely price and release date, I think Sony did exactly what they needed…

Ten years ago, former Black Stars captain Asamoah Gyan truly arrived on the world football stage at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. These days he is honing his skills in a different sport on the social tennis circuit in Accra and opens up about his favourite players and aspects of tennis. https://twitter.com/i/status/1271173506831659009 Source: 3news.com|Ghana

The National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) has received 50 Isuzu vehicles from the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo through the Office of the Chief of Staff to support the Commission’s public education campaign on Covid-19. In addition, a sum of GH¢2,517,000 has been released to the Commission to facilitate its work on Covid-19 across the country. Chairman of NCCE Josephine Nkrumah during a brief handing over of the vehicles to beneficiary regional and district offices was very thankful to President Akufo-Addo for personally taking interest in the work of the Commission. She said he has shown goodwill to resource…

Some two lecturers of the Koforidua Technical University have received letters of apology from one Bismark Agbelengor for “wrongly” including their names in a petition sent to the Chair of the Electoral Commission, Ghana (EC) by about 101 lecturers, calling on Jean Mensa to reconsider the decision to compile a new register for the December 7 elections. The two are Professor Smile Dzisi and Dr Benjamin Kwofie. The latter had written to the Vice Chancellor of the Koforidua Technical University, denying knowledge of the group, Concerned University Lecturers, Ghana, and the content of the letter sent to Mrs Mensa. Dr…