Eight opposition MPs in Uganda have so far returned the $8,000 (£6,000) each of them were given by parliament for consultations with their constituents on the controversial presidential age-limit bill. The opposition has denounced the one-off payment as a “bribe” because MPs already get money to visit their constituencies, reports the BBC’s Patience Atuhaire from ...

Dozens of adult content creators have signed an open letter to Patreon challenging restrictions it has placed on the creation of pornography. The crowdfunding service updated its rules last week to explicitly ban the sale of pornographic content and provision of sexual services. It said at the time that it was clarifying an existing policy. But ...

Hollywood actor George Clooney has given $1m (£750,000) to The Sentry campaign group to investigate people who finance and benefit from conflict in Africa. In a statement, he said: Our focus is to make sure that war crimes don’t pay. We want to make it more difficult for those willing to kill en masse to ...

Two-goal Andre Ayew insists West Ham United’s never-say-die attitude inspired them to come from 2-0 down to defeat Tottenham Hotspur in the Carabaco Cup. The Hammers’ hopes of reaching the quarter-finals looked all but dead and buried when first-half goals from Moussa Sissoko and Dele Alli sent them back to the dressing room two goals ...

If there is a popular saying that will make so much sense to Ghanaian Gospel musician Simon Osei otherwise known by his stage name Don Simon, it is none other than, “brighten the corner where you are.” Almost three (3) years after releasing his debut album with lead single ‘Bless Me’ topping charts around the country, little ...

That said, there are some emotional qualities that attract men above all others. Here are ten emotional qualities that the average guy is attracted to, in no particular order. 1. Kindness I appreciate that 80s movies convinced us that “nice” was a one syllable way of saying “sucker” and that it’s become a charitable way ...

In a bid to sanitize the petroleum downstream industry, the National Petroleum Authority (NPA) has since August this year begun the implementation of new export guidelines to clamp down on fuel smuggling in the country. Addressing participants at the ongoing Oil Trading and Logistics Downstream Week in Lagos, Nigeria, Chief Executive Officer of NPA, Alhassan ...

The Ga South Municipal Chief Executive, Joseph Nyani, says he will abolish the public school shift system in his municipality by 2020. “When I came [into office], I found that almost 60% of the schools run the shift system. It is my vision to end the shift system or to abolish the shift system, and that’s ...

Moments after President Nana Akufo-Addo announced on Thursday that Black Stars captain, Asamoah Gyan had obtained a license to operate Baby Jet Airlines in the country, some fraudsters have the company which is yet to officially commence operations. The fraudsters have begun posing as agents of the company, taking money from unsuspecting Ghanaians under the ...

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) re-grouping after its comprehensive defeat in the 2016 election, will begin in November with the registration of members at various branches, after it scrapped its biometric register in favour of a manual process of registering members of the party. The National Executive Committee had unanimously agreed to scrap the register citing ...

The former headmaster of the La Presbyterian Senior High School, Samuel Salamat, who claims to have been unfairly transferred, has said he worked for free while serving on a committee whose work led to the implementation of the free Senior High school programme. Prior to the implementation of the free SHS policy, government set up ...

The former headmaster of La PRESEC Senior High School, Samuel Salamat, says he feels hurt about the treatment meted out to him by the Ghana Education Service (GES), over fallout from the implementation of the Free SHS policy at the school. According to him, the GES did not give him a fair hearing, expressing surprise at ...

Twitter has pledged to make advertising more transparent as it attempts to fend off proposed new regulations. It said it would be clearer about who funded ads and to what end, especially those pushing a political agenda. The company, like several tech firms, is keen to show it can self-regulate after it was found that ...

Leicester City have appointed ex-Southampton boss Claude Puel as their new manager on a three-year deal. Puel becomes the Foxes’ third manager this year, replacing Craig Shakespeare who succeeded Premier League title winner Claudio Ranieri in February. Puel, 56, led the Saints to eighth in his first season in charge, as well as reaching the ...

Regional and Zonal coordinators of the Ghana School Feeding programme(GSFP), have assured President Nana Akufo-Addo of their commitment to work assiduously and efficiently to improve on the quality of meals served under the school feeding programme across the country. The coordinators, who lauded the president for exhibiting commitment to improve the welfare of  women, say ...

The Tolon district in the Northern Region, now has a substantive District Chief Executive (DCE), in the person of Balchisu Yakubu. She was on Wednesday confirmed by 33 out of 34 assembly members who voted in an election supervised by the Electoral Commission. Until her appointment, the area had been without a DCE following the Tolon ...

Banks are expected to tighten their lending to the energy sector soon. It will follow the repayment of the accumulated energy debt to the affected banks. Currently, bids are being accepted for the first tranche of the bond to raise 6 billion cedis. This is expected to close by Friday, October 27, 2017. But Economist ...

Security has been tightened in Kenya as voting gets under way in a re-run of the presidential election which is being boycotted by the main opposition. Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta, who is seeking a second term, has urged people to vote and remain peaceful. Opposition leader Raila Odinga, who has pulled out of the election ...

The Minister of Roads and Highways, Amoako Attah, was on Wednesday night forced to cancel the commissioning of the South-bound Suhum overpass on the main Accra-Kumasi Highway, after keeping journalists and others waiting for hours. This comes after some residents raised concerns over their safety, especially that of their children who cross the road on daily basis ...