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PRESIDENT NANA Akufo-Addo is scheduled to present Constitutional Instruments (C.I.s) for the creation of the six new regions following a successful referendum held on December 28, 2018. The presentations are expected to begin on Tuesday, February 12, 2019 with the North East and Savannah Regions, according to a statement issued by Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah. According to the statement, on Wednesday, February 13, the President will present the C.I.s for Bono East and…

Saturday afternoon’s Millrose Games had to be temporarily put on hold when Jamaican distance runner Kemoy Campbell collapsed while performing his rabbiting, or pacing, duties during the men’s 3000-meter race.  Campbell can be seen collapsing near the shot put area and did not immediately responding to contact from nearby personnel. Police and paramedics soon arrived and reportedly had to use a defibrillator on his unconscious body. Some have speculated that he was revived and taken…

The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), has said a total of 15.2 million passengers passed through Nigerian airports in 227,834 aircraft movements in 2018. This was revealed in FAAN’s 2018 Annual Report released on Sunday. The report posted an increase of 2.5 million passengers from 12.7 million passengers recorded in 2017 representing 19.11 per cent increase. It also revealed an increase of 27,068 from the 200,766 aircraft movements recorded in 2017 representing 11.48 per…

Police were Thursday allowed to hold a man suspected to have been in constant communication with the main attacker at DusitD2 complex Hotel Ali Salim Gichunge, for 30 days. Prosecution counsel Harrison Kiarie told court that Benson Maina Mwangi was an associate of Mr Gichunge and is believed to have facilitated the procurement of a third-party cover for the motor vehicle that was used to ferry some of the attackers to the hotel on January…

 Zimbabwe’s churches on Thursday sought to broker talks between the government and its opponents over a political and economic crisis they said had left the country “angry and traumatised”, after the main opposition snubbed a meeting with the president. The southern African nation had hoped to shake off its divided past after a 2017 coup forced long time leader Robert Mugabe from power, but last year’s disputed election won by President Emmerson Mnangagwa only deepened…

With the 61st Annual Grammy Awards set to take place on Sunday, February 10, 2019, at the Staples Center, Los Angeles, California, the seating chart has been revealed. Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson and Katy Perry are up front, while Miley Cyrus and her idol, Dolly Parton, will be seating close to each other. Kendrick Lamar and SZA who both collaborated on “Black Panther” track,  “All the Stars” will seat together. The seating chart also revealed where Bad Bunny, Camila Cabello, Drake, J Lo and Cardi B will be seating during…

Newlyweds Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin are the cover stars for Vogue’s March 2019 issue. The couple got married last September at a lower Manhattan courthouse after a twelve-week romance and a nearly ten-year friendship. They revealed to Vogue that they saved themselves for marriage. The couple said abstaining from sex till they were married was the perfect decision they ever made. Justin Bieber said that his religious beliefs were one of the reasons why he chose not…

It is hardly surprising that the Borno State Government has resorted to enlisting the services of local hunters to assist in the war against the Boko Haram Islamist insurgents. The recent trip of a delegation of Borno leaders to the Presidential Villa to cry for urgent help to contain the resurgence of terrorism showed a need for extra measures by all stakeholders. On Wednesday, January 30, 2019, Governor Kashim Shettima, the Governor of Borno State,…

Cambodian police say they have arrested two Romanians and three Nigerians after seizing nearly 5 kilograms (11 pounds) of methamphetamine from one of them as he prepared to board a flight to Hong Kong. Deputy National Police Chief Mok Chito said police on Wednesday found the drug, in a form known as crystal meth or ice, in a backpack belonging to Romanian Narcis-Manuel Olaru at the airport in Siem Reap in northeastern Cambodia. Olaru told…

The United States warned its citizens in Kenya on Monday that “credible information indicates Westerners may be targeted by extremists”. The warning comes just weeks after a deadly al-Shabab attack on an upmarket hotel in the capital, Nairobi, in which at least 21 people, including a US citizen, were shot dead. Sixteen Kenyans and a British citizen were also killed in the siege that lasted more than 19 hours.  The US embassy in Nairobi said…