Human rights activists are calling on the Eritrean authorities to release a woman who has been held incommunicado for more than six years. Ciham Abdu was arrested at the age of 15 shortly after her father – a former government minister – fled the country and sought asylum in Australia following a rift with President Isaias Afwerki. To mark her …
Theresa May will ask the EU for an extension to the Brexit deadline to “break the logjam” in Parliament. The Prime Minister says she wants to meet Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to agree a plan on the future relationship with the EU. But she insisted her withdrawal agreement – which was voted down last week would remain part of the …
Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Najib Razak is set to stand trial for his role in a financial scandal that has sent shockwaves around the world. Mr Najib is accused of pocketing $681m (£522m) from the sovereign wealth fund 1MDB. He denies any wrongdoing. The fund was meant to boost Malaysia’s economy through strategic investments. Instead, money from it was allegedly …
A Ugandan child rapper has been told to put down his microphone because he is too young to perform. Youth minister Florence Nakiwala told the BBC that the country’s labour laws state that no-one under 18 should work. In a television interview on Uganda’s NBS channel, she also warned that if the seven-year-old rapper Fresh Kid disobeyed the law he …
Information reaching Attractivemustapha.com indicates that the Member of Parliament for the Abetifi Constituency in the Eastern Region who doubles as the Minister of National Security, Bryan Acheampong has instructed the organizing team of “Bliss on the Hills” to collect a specific amount of money from Ghana’s self-acclaimed dancehall king Charles Nii Armah Mensah who goes by the stage name Shatta …
Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery has told the Emile Short Commission probing the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence that the vehicle used by the masked security men did not belong to the Police Service. According to him, in his interaction with the Inspector General of Police (IGP), he came to understand that the Service did not release any vehicles for use …
The minister for tourism and creative arts of Ghana, Madam Catherine Afeku has assured the entertainment industry of the Garden City of Ghana, Kumasi, that the president of the republic, H.E Akuffo-Addo has not forsaken them contrary to the claims of many people in the media space. According to her, they are only trying their very best to make …
Only two per cent of senior high school (SHS) students in the country are willing to venture into self-built enterprises after school, the Minister of Business Development, Dr Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, has disclosed. He said while 120,000 students who graduated from the various universities in the country annually were interested in public sector jobs, the government could employ only …
The Women In Tourism (WIT), Ghana has congratulated the Minister of Tourism Arts and Culture, Catherine Abelema Afeku on her new appointment as Chairperson of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Leadership Task Force Group. “Women In Tourism ( Ghana) hereby adds its voice to congratulations to the good news of the honour bestowed on our Honorable …
The Gender Minister, Ms Cynthia Morrison has adopted a two year old boy who was buried alive in Elmina in the Central Region. The boy, Kweku Lentil, who suffers from cerebral palsy, a neurological disorder, was barely a year old when he was left to die after being covered with earth in an uncompleted building. He was, however, rescued by …
