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Google To Give African Computer Science Students Graduating In 2017 Exclusive Access To Its Offices In Warsaw & Zurich

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Google has announced it will be giving African computer science students that are graduating in 2017 exclusive access to its offices in Warsaw, Poland and Zurich, Switzerland. This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is made possible through Google’s new Inside Look events. The students will get an inside view into working as a Software Engineer at Google, and see the products Googlers are developing in each of the offices. In Warsaw, the selected students will get to know more about the Google Cloud platform. The students will learn more about the projects the Cloud team is working on. On the other hand, the Zurich Inside Look event will be all about YouTube and Inbox. During both events, there’ll be tech talks, panels, hands-on workshops and plenty of food and Google goodies. The Warsaw event will hold on September 23, 2016 while that of Zurich will take place on September 30, 2016. Interested students should apply by July 24, 2016. Selected students will be notified by mid-August

Woman Sentenced to Death in Tamale

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A 22-year-old woman has been sentenced to death by hanging by the Tamale High Court. A five-member jury convicted trader, Zeila Sulemana for murder. The jury unanimously pronounced Zeila guilty of murder; she stabbed a nursing student, Rawdia Aminu in the abdomen and chest at Lamashegu in the Northern region. The two were involved in an argument over a boy [Alhassan Abdul-Rahman]. Alhassan happened to be a boyfriend to Rawdia and an ex-boyfriend also to Zeila. The prosecutor of the case, Mr Salia Qudus narrated to the court that the two ladies were involved in a heated conversation about Alhassan, leading to the stabbing of Aminu in her chest and abdomen and eventual death. Even though Ghana has not undertaken any execution since 1993, the number of death sentences as at 2015, was 18.

Kenya women protest after men fail to impregnate them

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Call it whatever you will but reports have it that Kenyan women on Thursday held a serious demo in Limuru, Kiambu County protesting the dwindling performance of men in the bedroom. A Kenyan website, Tuko, reports that a section of women held a peaceful demonstration in Ndeiya ward claiming that most of their men, including young men have failed to perform their conjugal rights. The women said the trend was worsened by high levels of alcohol consumption which saw many men abandon their families. The women further claimed that only a few newly married women are currently pregnant with the rest of the bulk dreaming about ever having a baby since men have failed to impregnate them. “If you walk in this village, you will find so many young married women but only a few are pregnant,” Nancy Wangare, one of the protesters, is quoted as saying. Women have now threatened to move outside Kiambu to other counties where they can find real men who are serious enough to impregnate them. They fu