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An Ebola outbreak has been declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s north-western territory of Bikoro. There are two confirmed cases of the Ebola virus in the affected area and 17 deaths where it is suspected, the health ministry said on Tuesday. The incident comes more than a year after an outbreak in the country killed four people. A 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa killed over 11,000 people as it tore into Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. According to the World Health Organization, the outbreak declaration was made after laboratory results confirmed two cases of the Ebola virus out…

The board of the Ghana Cylinders Manufacturing Company has passed a unanimous resolution to suspend Chief Executive Officer Frances Essiam. The resolution was passed on Tuesday after a crunch meeting by the board. Before the meeting, the board led by chairman Frank Boakye Agyen had demanded some answers from Ms Essiam on several issues including the sidelining of the Ministry of Energy in awarding some contracts. The board also froze her authority to disburse any amount from the GH¢5 million stimulus package government sought for the Company. But Ms Essiam proved defiant to the board as she is reported to…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says the contributions of Jospeh Boakye Danquah to the establishment of Ghana’s premier university qualifies him as its founder. According to the president, it was the inspired, visionary leadership of Dr JB Danquah that enabled Ghanaians to reject the original decision of the colonial government that a single university be established in Ibadan, in Nigeria, for British West Africa. He continued it was Dr Danquah, affectionately referred to as the Doyen of Gold Coast politics, who got the colonial government to agree to the establishment of a separate university for Ghana. President Akufo-Addo recalled all…

Nigeria President Muhammadu Buhari leaves the capital Abuja Tuesday for a four-day medical trip to the United Kingdom – his fourth since he came to power in 2015. Mr Buhari, who arrived back from a visit to the United States last week, announced the trip on Twitter on Monday evening. https://twitter.com/MBuhari/status/993581405677506561 It is not known what the president is suffering from, and the announcement is sure to raise questions among opposition figures. However, last year he spent 104 days in the UK. He also met his doctor last week during a stopover to refuel in London on the way back…

African World Airlines has apologised to Rita Kriba, a physically challenged passenger who could not complete her flight to Kumasi last Saturday due to her disability. Ms Kriba was denied entry into the plane after waiting several hours to board because of her crutches, reports say. She has begun legal process to get compensation. READ: Woman denied entry into AWA plane due to disability heads to court But AWA, in a statement on Monday, said its aircraft has structural limitations for carrying certain categories of wheelchair passengers. “As such it is boldly written at all our sales points and in…

Landslides in Rwanda have killed at least 18 people over the weekend, bringing the death toll this year to 200. Residents have been digging to search for those buried after heavy downpours. “The four months have been far worse than other years. This is terrifying,” Philippe Habinshuti, from the disaster management ministry, told the Reuters. Known as “the land of a thousand hills”, Rwanda is one of Africa’s most densely populated countries. Fifteen people were killed on Sunday following heavy rains in the western region, Mr Habinshuti. A local official in the capital, Kigali, told the BBC that three people…

The outgoing SRC President of the African University College of Communications(AUCC), Emmanuel Nana Yaw Amoafo has been impeached by the school’s SRC Congress for allegedly defrauding a student of an amount of 2,500 cedis and refusing to pay back in full. This information was made public in a communique by the chairman of the privileges committee, Raymond Kwakye and also approved by the Speaker of Congress in the person of Edem Unity Avege. The communique revealed that the Current outgoing SRC President, refused to fully refund an amount of 2,300cedis to the student (name withheld in anonymity) who presented the…

The American author Mark Twain is often, possibly apocryphally, quoted as saying that quitting smoking was easy – he’d done it 100 times. The writer later died of lung cancer. As a society we accept the existence of addictions to substances, such as nicotine, alcohol and other drugs – and the harm they can cause. But when it comes to sex, some experts still disagree over whether addiction is real or a myth. Sex addiction is currently not a clinical diagnosis, which means we don’t have official figures on how many people have sought help for related concerns through the…

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has commissioned the newly constructed Tesano Divisional Police Headquarters of the Ghana Police Service, at a brief ceremony on Monday, 7th May, 2018.   The building, which was constructed by Dr. Osei Kwame ‘Despite’, will serve the peoples of Tesano and its environs. Delivering his remarks at the commissioning, President Akufo-Addo noted that the issue of law and order is particularly important at this time, when indiscipline, lawlessness and outbreaks of mob justice are threatening the rule of law, and, therefore, vital that the Executive should offer its full support to the…

Former Vice Chancellor of the University of Professional Studies, Accra Professor Joshua Alabi, who is aspiring to lead the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the 2020 elections, has revealed that there is no animosity between himself and ex-president John Mahama. He insists that he expects the former president to campaign for him after he wins his party’s flagbearership. “We are still friends,” Prof Alabi told TV3’s After Hours host Mikki Osei Berko. Asked when the two last spoke, he responded, “I don’t keep dates but we still talk. We are not enemies. When I win, he will all join…