Posts

CHRIS BROWN ARRESTED...AGAIN.

LOS ANGELES — Chris Brown has been arrested on suspicion of felony assault with a deadly weapon and was being transported to the Los Angeles Police Department's downtown robbery-homicide division for questioning, a police spokesperson told Mashable. Police served a search warrant at the home of the troubled singer Tuesday afternoon following a peaceful standoff that dragged on through most of the day, LAPD Public Information Officer Tony Im said. Detectives initially responded to a 3:11 a.m. call from outside Brown's home in the affluent Los Angeles neighborhood of Tarzana, where a woman told police that Brown pointed a gun at her in a violent rage. Brown insisted that police get a search warrant to enter the palatial estate, and cops spent the next 12 hours stationed outside while a magistrate prepared the papers. TMZ reported that during that time, Brown taunted police and threw a duffel bag out a window that contained weapons and drugs. By late afternoon, Brown and severa...

Airtel money to pay interest to customers effective September 11

Image
Airtel Money, a sub brand of Airtel Ghana has announced its readiness, in conjunction with partner banks, to pay interests earned by customers on their Airtel Money wallets effective 11th September 2016. The interest payment is in line with directives from the Bank of Ghana issued earlier this year for Mobile Money Operators to pay interests on customers’ E-value. Speaking to the company’s readiness to comply with this directive, Edmund Barwuah, Head of Corporate Sales, Airtel Money said “ we are excited that the Bank of Ghana has given the green light for us to pay interest accrued on the pooled E-money float for eligible customers effective the second week of September. Together with our partner banks, interest earned for the first half of the year will be paid to customers in two tranches with the first payments made by 11th September covering the period January to March and the second payments made by 18th September covering April to June 2016. As with normal pr...

Top producer B2 nominated for Ghana Tertiary Awards.

Image
B2,real name Michael Boafo,one of Ghana's topmost producers has once more been nominated for the Ghana Tertiary Awards after winning the FAME awards. He has a lot of production credits to his name working with some of GH's top artistes,like,EL(Segbefia,BAR2 - Intro,Gbagbalaja),Gemini(Postinor 2,Ceasefire),Eazzy(Kpakposhito,Forever),Ak-Songstress(Henya,Bloodclat song) and many others including Epixode,Shaker and Stargo. To vote to reward this talent from Ghana,kindly text "B6 to 1762" and "Sn1 to 1762" on all networks for him to win "Best sound engineer" and "Most influential student in music". Winning this would be a continuation to a wonderful journey which is already in progress and he'll like to thank everyone for the love he's receiving so far.

World Bank, Global Fund commit $24bn into universal health coverage in Africa

Image
At the Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD-VI) today, African heads of state and partners vowed to accelerate progress toward universal health coverage (UHC) in Africa. To help countries implement their health reforms, the World Bank and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (Global Fund) committed to invest$24 billion in Africa over the next three to five years. The announcement was made ahead of the two-day TICAD conference, which is Japan’s flagship program for African development. One of the focal points at this year’s conference is expandingUHC in Africa. “ African countries can become more competitive in the global economy by making several strategic investments, including investing more in their people, their most prized resource, ” said Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group. “A critical part of this commitment is to accelerate progress on universal health coverage—ensuring that everyone, every...

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

Image
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...

Woman Sentenced to Death in Tamale

Image
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

Image
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 the...