A majority of people in Germany support recognising a Palestinian state, according to a new poll, a move the federal government currently rejects. In the survey by the Forsa Institute for the foreign policy journal Internationale Politik, 54 per cent of respondents answered “Yes” to the question: “Should Germany now recognise Palestine as its own […]
A British health officer who stole £80,000 to send to her online boyfriend in Nigeria has been handed a two-year jail sentence. Hyacinth Blair, 63, worked as an administrator for South London and Maudsley NHS trust. Between June 2021 and January 2023, she withdrew £80,000 from the trust’s accounts. Blair sent the money to a […]
By FORTUNE ABANG THE Federal Government of Nigeria has expressed its deepest condolences to the Government and people of the Republic of Ghana following the tragic helicopter crash on Wednesday, 6 August 2025, which claimed the lives of several Ghanaian officials. Among the victims were Ghana’s Minister of Defence, Dr Edward Boamah, and Minister of […]
GHANA’S government has issued a stern ultimatum to MultiChoice Ghana, ordering the pay-TV operator to cut DStv subscription prices by 30% before 7 August. Speaking on Monday, Minister of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations, Samuel Nartey George, said he has instructed the National Communications Authority (NCA) to initiate suspension proceedings against MultiChoice Ghana if it […]
By EMMANUEL YASHIM BRAZILIAN President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has revealed plans to discuss with India and China. a joint BRICS response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs on U.S. imports. Da Silva presented himself as a torchbearer for multilateralism in a fractured world in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday. “What Trump is doing […]
By CECILIA ODEY LABOUR’S UK homelessness minister is facing criticism for hiking rent on a property she owns by hundreds of pounds, reportedly just weeks after the previous tenants’ contract ended. Four tenants who rented a house in East London from Rushanara Ali were sent an email last November saying their lease would not be […]
FORMER Arsenal midfielder, Thomas Partey, has arrived in London court, where he is due to appear on rape and sexual assault charges. The Ghana international, 32, has been charged with five counts of rape against two women, as well as a charge of sexual assault against a third woman. The alleged offences took place between […]
AROUND 31 residents died by flooding at a care home for elderly people on the outskirts of Beijing this week, local officials have said. Footage showed emergency teams wading through chest-high water trying to rescue those trapped in the home in the Miyun District. Many of those who died were reportedly immobile. Local officials have […]
POPE Emeritus Benedict XVI has died at the age of 95, the Vatican announced on Saturday. It said that the 95-year-old Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI passed away on Saturday at 9:34 AM in his residence at the Vatican’s Mater Ecclesiae Monastery. The Pope Emeritus has been down with sickness. The statement reads: “The Holy See […]
EULOGIES from global leaders and leading personalities all over the world poured in for Queen Elizabeth II, the United Kingdom’s longest reigning monarch, as she died at the age of 96 on Thursday. She died peacefully at Balmoral Castle, her estate in the Scottish Highlands in the afternoon marking the end of an era in […]