A Kenyan journalist and TV presenter has won this year’s BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. Waihiga Mwaura presents Kenya’s most-watched evening news bulletin on Citizen TV. As part of the prize, he will spend three months at the BBC in London and travel back to the continent to report on a story there. The award was created to honour [...] The post Kenyan wins 2018 BBC Komla Dumor
A former Gunvor employee said he paid bribes to the president of the Republic of Congo via a presidential aide and Belgian firm Semlex to win Congolese oil contracts, according to a Swiss prosecution document. The employee said he also paid other bribes on behalf of Gunvor, the Geneva-based commodities and energy trading firm, to a state oil official and [...] The post Firm bribed Congo
Outgoing Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila pledged at the United Nations on Tuesday that “peaceful, credible” elections would be held in his country as planned at the end of the year. Kabila has ruled since his father’s assassination in 2001. He agreed last month not to defy term limits by running for re-election, opening the door to the [...] The post Kabila vows peaceful,
The Ghana Independent Broadcasters Association (GIBA) has urged the Ministry of Communications (MoC) to abrogate the deal it has signed with StarTimes China to develop the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) platform. According to GIBA, the contract would subject the country’s broadcast space to foreign control, a situation which would affect the sovereignty of the country. An Executive Council Member of [...] The post Abrogate
IN a restatement to world leaders at the on-going United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo restated Ghana’s determination to wean itself off foreign donor support. The president has championed the vision of “Ghana Beyond Aid” since assuming power nearly two years ago. Perhaps, since she was born, Ghana has depended on aid from [...] The post GHANA
An Accra circuit court has granted GH¢56,000.00 bail with three sureties to the Chief Executive Officer of the Sonzel Shipping Company. Frank Osei Assibey allegedly swindled a businessman of Toyota Corolla and GH¢25,000.00 under the pretext of clearing his Mercedes Benz car from the port. The court ordered that two of the sureties should be public servants earning [...] The post CEO
The Nkawie Circuit Court has jailed a 48-year-old man two years in hard labour, for stealing a wastebin, belonging to the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA). Mohammed Rufai, caused a stir when he went on his knees in the dock in tears and begged the court for forgiveness after pleading guilty to the charge of stealing. “Please, have mercy on me, [...] The post Man jailed 2 years for
A self-styled car dealer, Nana Kwame Ohene Agyekum, has been granted GH¢12,000 bail with two sureties by an Accra circuit court, for defrauding under the pretext of securing a businessman a Daewoo Matrix saloon car. He pleaded not guilty to two counts of dishonestly receiving and defrauding by false pretence and would appear again before the court on October 15. [...] The post Self-styled
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