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A 31-year-old man, who was on a flight from Los Angeles to Dubai when he assaulted an air hostess and behaved erratically, faced multiple charges at the Dubai Court of First Instance on Sunday. The Dubai public prosecution accused the Jordanian passenger – who works as a purchase PRO – of sexually harassing the Ghanaian hostess and physically assaulting her by twisting her arm on April 13. He also treated her with contempt by telling her that he did not want to look at her face or at any of the crew members. The man also verbally abused and threatened…

A 31-year-old man, who was on a flight from Los Angeles to Dubai when he assaulted an air hostess and behaved erratically, faced multiple charges at the Dubai Court of First Instance on Sunday. The Dubai public prosecution accused the Jordanian passenger – who works as a purchase PRO – of sexually harassing the Ghanaian hostess and physically assaulting her by twisting her arm on April 13. He also treated her with contempt by telling her that he did not want to look at her face or at any of the crew members. The man also verbally abused and threatened…

A popular Nigerian pastor accused of rape has returned to the pulpit one month after taking a “leave of absence”. Biodun Fatoyinbo, who is the founder and senior pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (Coza) in the capital, Abuja, was accused on 28 June by celebrity photographer Busola Dakolo of raping her twice when she was a teenager. Mr Fatoyinbo denied the accusation and the police are currently investigating the case. He said he was taking a leave of absence on 1 July after protesters at branches of the church called for him to step down. In a packed…

A popular Nigerian pastor accused of rape has returned to the pulpit one month after taking a “leave of absence”. Biodun Fatoyinbo, who is the founder and senior pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (Coza) in the capital, Abuja, was accused on 28 June by celebrity photographer Busola Dakolo of raping her twice when she was a teenager. Mr Fatoyinbo denied the accusation and the police are currently investigating the case. He said he was taking a leave of absence on 1 July after protesters at branches of the church called for him to step down. In a packed…

An explosion outside Egypt’s National Cancer Institute in the centre of the capital, Cairo, has killed 19 people and injured 30 others. The interior ministry said a car travelling against the traffic collided on the corniche with other vehicles, causing an explosion. Pictures show the burnt remains of at least one car: There is no immediate indication that the incident was terror-related. The health ministry says staff and patients inside the hospital were unharmed. Source: BBC

A non-governmental organisation, Mawuvio Outreach Programme (MOP), is providing 200 under privileged children at Ayikumah and its environs in the Greater Accra region with free education and skills training. The beneficiaries, who are mostly orphaned and disadvantaged children, have been receiving free boarding education from kindergarten to Junior High School. MOP, which has a Ghana Education Service accreditation to operate a government approved school. Aside the free education, each of the beneficiaries is being provided free food, uniforms, shoes and educational materials as well as employable skills training. Eight of the beneficiaries who wrote this year’ Basic Education Certificate Examination…

A drug dealer in Brazil was caught trying to escape from the jail where he was locked up by disguising himself as his 19-year-old daughter. Prison authorities in Rio de Janeiro released a video showing the inmate wearing a wig, a silicone mask, a bra and a tight-fitting T-shirt. The 42-year-old removes the items one by one to reveal a muscular physique very unlike that of his daughter. Officials said the daughter could be charged with aiding a prison escape. They said the 19-year-old had come to visit her father, Clauvino da Silva, at the jail in Rio de Janeiro…

A four-year-old boy who was reported missing in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis of the Western Region has been found dead 24 hours later. The lifeless body of Justice Kofi Minta was on Sunday found floating in a small lagoon close to a Police barracks at Effia. He was said to have drowned in the lagoon in an attempt to remove a ball he was playing with his colleagues in the area Saturday afternoon. Residents who were shocked by the incident could not hold back their tears as the body of the kindergarten pupil was discovered at about 4:30pm, host of Takoradi-based…

Two South African pilots behind a project that saw teenage students fly a homemade aircraft across Africa have been killed in a plane crash in western Tanzania. Des Werner and Werner Froneman were in a support plane following the teenagers that went down in Tabora region. They were accompanying a team who had just flown a four-seater Sling 4 plane from Cape Town to Cairo. They had been expected to land back in South Africa on Monday. Tanzania authorities said the plane went down on Saturday after take-off from Tabora airport. The pilots sent a distress signal about engine failure…

Border patrol officers of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) are to be armed with guns before this year’s Christmas, the Comptroller-General, Kwame Asuah-Takyi has assured. He said the arms have already been procured with funds from the government and currently being shipped to Ghana. “It’s gone through the processes and it’s being shipped to the country for distribution,” he said during the inspection of the Saru, Sawla Kabla, Tanglyiri, Saru, Vouvou and Kalba unapproved routes in the Savannah Region. Mr Asuah-Takyi is currently on a nine day tour and working visit to some GIS installations in the Northern, Upper West,…