The Ghana Police Service in the Upper East Region has successfully recovered a significant quantity of ammunition that was hidden at a mechanic workshop located near the Assemblies of God Church in Bolgatanga. According to the police, this recovery occurred after a report was filed on Saturday, May 9, 2026, by an auto mechanic who…
The Federal government has exempted candidates seeking admission into Colleges of Education from writing the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, disclosed this while speaking at the admission policy meeting for the 2026 UTME in Abuja today May 11. He said candidates with four credit passes in relevant…
The All Progressives Congress (APC) screening committee for the Rivers State House of Assembly elections has approved 33 aspirants while disqualifying 65 others ahead of the party primaries. The screening exercise was led by Muraina Ajibola, who chaired the committee responsible for reviewing the candidates. In total, 98 individuals bought nomination forms to contest for…
The political friction between FCT Minister Nyesom Wike and Rivers State Governor Siminalayi Fubara has intensified following the disqualification of 32 aspirants loyal to the governor by the All Progressives Congress (APC) House of Assembly Screening Committee. While the governor’s preferred candidates were rejected, the four-man committee cleared all 29 serving members of the State…
Our rent was due, and my husband told me, “Start packing your bags; we’ll have to stay at my parents’ house.” We lived miles away from his parents. I had a job which was easier to get to from where we were staying, and we also had a six-month-old baby. I couldn’t do all the…
A long-standing family feud over property ended in tragedy Friday afternoon last week when Walter Earnest Birdsong Jr., 62, and his wife, Amanda Lynn Birdsong, 43, were shot and killed in their Florence, Mississippi home. Authorities identified the shooter as Walter’s relative, 56-year-old Kurt Birdsong, who took his own life following the attack. …
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that candidates applying for Education courses and non-engineering Agriculture programmes in Colleges of Education and Polytechnics will no longer need to write the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). JAMB made this known on Monday in a statement issued on its official X page during its ongoing…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has fixed 150 as the minimum cut-off mark for admission into Nigerian universities for the 2026 academic session. The decision was reached at the ongoing 2026 Policy Meeting on Admissions in Abuja today May 11. The meeting had in attendance the Minister of Education, Tuniji Alausa,…
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has reacted to claims that he had a “friends with benefits” arrangement with Sarah Ferguson, the former wife of Queen Elizabeth’s second son. In his book, Entitled, Andrew Lownie alleges that Diddy and Sarah Ferguson first met in 2002 at a party thrown by Ghislaine Maxwell. Following this meeting, in 2004, the pair began what one of…
A packed passenger plane caught fire after landing , forcing a mass evacuation of nearly 300 people on board and an airport shutdown. The Turkish Airlines flight, heading from Istanbul to Kathmandu, was set ablaze after a spark went off in the jet’s landing gear, authorities said. A spokesperson for Nepal’s civil aviation…
