Ekeomah Atuonwu A boy from Ghana who had the highly contagious Marburg virus—which is similar to Ebola—has died, according to a representative of the World Health Organization. Since Ghana reported its first-ever outbreak of the disease last month, there have been three fatalities in the nation as of Tuesday. Only two outbreaks have been reported in West […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Nigeria will have the chance to exhibit her cultural history through theater, poetry, dance, and other forms as part of celebrations for her 60th anniversary of independence in Jamaica. This information was revealed on Sunday at an event with the subject “Emancipation jubilee,” per a statement from the Nigerian High Commissioner to Jamaica, […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu In a small South African town, a group of armed men broke into a music video shoot and sexually assaulted eight of the young cast members, authorities said over the weekend. Police Minister Bheki Cele reported that three of the approximately 20 suspects in the attack on Thursday on the outskirts of Krugersdorp, […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu More than 91 million Africans live with Hepatitis B or C, which are the deadliest strains of the virus, according to a World Health Organisation scorecard. The Viral Hepatitis Scorecard 2021 looks at data from the African region but focuses on Hepatitis B and C, both of which cause liver cirrhosis and cancer. It found that in […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu In a strong appeal to Nigeria’s business, banking, and political leaders to promote non-oil exports, Aliko Dangote, the founder, chairman, and CEO of the Dangote Group, the largest industrial conglomerate in West Africa, cited the Dangote Petrochemical Plant as an example of a facility that will increase non-oil export earnings for the nation. Speaking in Lagos at the 2022 […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu The biggest pink diamond of its kind to be found in 300 years has reportedly been unearthed in Angola and weighs 170 carats. The “Lulo Rose” diamond was discovered in the Lulo alluvial diamond mine, according to a statement posted on the website of the Lucapa Diamond Company, which owns the mine. The pink gemstone is anticipated to […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu On Wednesday, senators from all political parties demanded that Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari be removed from office due to the nation’s continuing high levels of insecurity. Around 2.10 pm, a group of parliamentarians walked out of the plenary shouting loudly, “Buhari must go.“ Senator Philip Aduda, the minority leader, told reporters at the Senate Press Corps Center that they […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Burkina Faso’s ex-president Blaise Compaore, sentenced in absentia to life in jail for the 1987 assassination of revolutionary icon Thomas Sankara, apologised to the ex-leader’s family on Tuesday. “I ask the Burkinabe people for forgiveness for all the acts I may have committed during my tenure, and especially the family of my brother and friend Thomas Sankara,” he […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson, an award-winning actress with Ghanaian roots, has been starred in the new sequel of Black Panther dubbed Wakanda Forever. On her personal Instagram handle, Ewuraba whose parents are Ghanaian but grew up with her sister in London, shared the Wakanda-Forever trailer with a shot that captured a scene of her. The Ghanaian-British woman has worked as an actress, screenwriter, […]
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Ekeomah Atuonwu Tobi Amusan won the women’s 100m hurdles event in Eugene, Oregon, to become the first Nigerian athlete to win a gold medal at a World Athletics Championship. Amusan crossed the finish line at Hayward Field in an astounding 12.06 seconds after breaking the world record in the semi-final with a time of 12.12. Due to an […]
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