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Nigerian musician Tekno has been arrested after travelling through Lagos in a lorry with semi-naked women. A video, which appears to be filmed from another car in a traffic jam, shows a man sitting in a glass-sided lorry throwing money at women dancing around a pole in their underwear. He has denied accusations that it was an advert for a strip club. Instead he insists that he was in the glass box on a truck travelling between locations while shooting a music video. The police told Nigerian news site The Daily Trust that the singer and two women had been arrested for…

Workers of the Producer Buying Company (PBC) Limited have appealed to government for a bail out to enable the company service its debt and re-profile its short term maturing debt to a long-term one. This, they said, would give the company the needed space to recover and retire all debt properly to ensure that it became a vibrant company once more. This was stated in a press release by the Professional and Managerial Staff Union (PMSU) and Local Workers Union. They said the current debt profile of the company amounted to GHȼ700 million, making it difficult to access funds directly…

More than five million people in Zimbabwe – about a third of the population – need food aid, with many coming close to starving, the UN says. The World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a $331m (£270m) appeal as the country battles the effects of drought, a cyclone and an economic crisis. David Beasley, head of the WFP, said many were “in crisis emergency mode… marching towards starvation”. Once a regional bread basket, Zimbabwe has suffered years of turmoil. Recent harvests have been badly affected by drought and the price of food has risen sharply. Low water levels have also…

The Ministry of Education has debunked allegations that Social Studies has been scrapped from the basic school curriculum. The National Social Studies Association (NaSSA) in a press conference threatened to march to the seat of government over the issue. Social Studies teachers threaten to storm Jubilee House over scrapping of subject But speaking exclusively to 3news.com, the Public Relations Officer for the Ministry, Ekow Vincent Assafuah, stressed that Social Studies has not been scrapped. He said stakeholders engagement is still in progress towards the second phase of the curriculum. According to him, the new pre–tertiary curriculum review process is in two…

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) with funding from the European Union (EU) has trained 20 cluster development experts from relevant institutions responsible for trade industrialization, export, agribusiness, quality infrastructure, trade associations and standards on cluster development in Accra. The four-day training on UNIDO’s cluster development methodology is aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 5, 8 and 9. It is part of the activities of the West Africa Competitiveness Programme (WACOMP) implemented by UNIDO in partnership with the Government of Ghana through the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI) to develop the technical capacity and capability of potential…

A man who donated his mother’s body to what he thought was Alzheimer’s research learned later it was used to test explosives. So what does happen when your body is donated to medical science? Last week new details of a lawsuit emerged against The Biological Resource Centre in Arizona following an FBI raid in 2014 in which gruesome remains of hundreds of discarded body parts were discovered. The now closed centre is accused of illegally selling body parts against the donors wishes. Newly-released court documents revealed that families of those whose bodies had been donated to the centre said they…

Nobel Prize-winning US author Toni Morrison has died at the age of 88. Her family confirmed “with profound sadness” that Morrison had died “following a short illness”. Author of 11 novels, she won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993, having published her first novel, The Bluest Eye, in 1970. Her 1987 book Beloved told the story of a runaway female slave and was made into a film starring Oprah Winfrey in 1998. Morrison once said: “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” The Morrison family…

Prison authorities in Brazil have found convicted drug dealer Clauvino da Silva dead in his cell, three days after an elaborate escape was foiled. Prison officials said it appeared that Silva had hanged himself. Guards on Saturday stopped Silva as he tried to walk out of the prison disguised as his teenage daughter. A video that showed him removing his disguise – which included a silicone mask and a wig – piece by piece received widespread media coverage. Silva was 42 and was serving a sentence of 73 years and 10 months for drug trafficking. On Tuesday guards found him in…

Chief Executive Officer of the Media General Group Beatrice Agyemang Abbey has urged parents to prioritize the education of their female children. She believes this is key to promoting gender equality. Mrs Abbey said this while addressing a delegation of children from Junior Shapers Africa, following their return from a camp meeting christened ‘Future Men Boot Camp 2019’. ‘Future Men Boot Camp’ is an annual event organized by the Junior Shapers Africa to train, mentor, guide and imbibe social and academic values into boys to take up responsible roles in every sphere of life. The boot camp, which is held…