A 24-year-old Czech student shot dead his father, then killed 14 people and wounded 25 others at his Prague university on Thursday before possibly killing himself, police said, marking the country's worst-ever mass shooting.
The government declared a day of mourning across the central European country for Dec. 23 to remember the victims, decided at a special cabinet meeting with...
Parliamentary Service Officers have been told that they will not be paid their December salary before Christmas.
The Director of Finance of Parliament, Daniel T. Chirawura stated that the service was yet “to receive Notification of Transfer of Salaries for December 2023.”
However the officers will be cushioned during the Christmas holidays, he said in a statement issued on Wednesday, December 20.
“The...
Gradually, African artefacts looted during the colonial era, are finding their way back to their countries of origin as discussions on restitution hit a crescendo, reports Graphic Online's Kwame Asare Boadu.
In the Republic of Benin, 26 royal artefacts that were looted from the Dahomey Kingdom by the French colonial army in 1892 have been repatriated.
Elsewhere in Ethiopia, 13 of...
Jonathan Majors was convicted Monday of assaulting his former girlfriend after a trial that he hoped would vindicate him and restore his status as an emerging Hollywood star. It did just the opposite: Marvel Studios and the Walt Disney Co. dropped him hours after the verdict.
A Manhattan jury found Majors, 34, guilty of one misdemeanour assault charge and one harassment...
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released provisional results of 448,674 candidates who sat for the 2023 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
Out of the number, the results of some subjects of candidates from 235 schools have been withheld for using Artificial Intelligence to generate answers.
Additionally, 3,647 subject results of candidates have been cancelled for bringing foreign...
The state has repatriated Shalimar Abbuissi, a spokesperson for the New Force, after the Ghana Immigration Service revoked her permit.
The Kaneshie District Court discharged the Belgian national on Tuesday, as state prosecutors decided to drop the charge related to obtaining a student permit under false declaration.
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Shalimar, according to the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) indicated in her document that she...
Some Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) have started reducing prices of petroleum products at the pumps.
Industry leader, GOIL, is selling a litre of petrol at ¢12.39 from the previous ¢12.80 this morning December 19, 2023.
Diesel on the other hand is going for ¢12.99 per litre from the old price of ¢13.30.
Many industry players will be looking forward to the margin...
One of the students who became the centre of school admission controversy back in 2021, Tyrone Iras Marhguy, has excelled in the just-ended West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
The science student scored 8 As in the 2023 edition of the examination.
A video shared on social media showed the Rastafarian in the company of others huddling around a computer...
The Electoral Commission (EC) of Ghana has announced that in the upcoming district-level election and subsequent polls, there would be no need for indelible ink.
Indelible Ink is a semi-permanent dye applied to voters' fingerprints to indicate who has exercised their franchise and prevents double voting.
Speaking at a press conference ahead of the December 19 district-level election, the EC chair,...
There is a post on the social media with the picture of Pope Francis in which he is said to have formally given Roman Catholic priests the permission to bless same-sex couples.
This has caused a lot of consternation among many people, some of whom have contacted me personally for my view on the matter. One person said, “Your Lordship,...
