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Graphic Online BY: News Desk Report 705 Nine Nigerians suspected to be fugitive jailbreakers from the Federal Republic of Nigeria have been arrested by the Ada District Police Command. They were arrested last Sunday at Ada Foah. The nine, including a female, are Emmanuel Obinnah Chiedozie, aged 27; Steve Eyenuku, 33; Enebeli Lucky, 29; Yommi Usmah, 29; Kelli Ekureni, 33; Freedom Yusuf, 25; Obi Onuora, 38; Patrick Chanar, 47, and Bless Eyenuku, 25. The nine crossed the Volta River to Ada Foah i...

NO fewer than nine fleeing inmates from Nigeria Correctional Centre have been re-arrested in Ghana, myjoynews has reported. The inmates were arrested by the Ada District Police Command in the Greater Accra Region and were suspected to be part of over 1,800 inmates that escaped from the Imo State Correctional earlier this month. According to the Police, the fleeing inmates were monitored following credible intelligence that they were about to cross the Volta River into Ada Foh on Sunday, April 1...

ON THE GO BudgIT: Some details of disbursed COVID-19 funds not published on open treasury platform BudgIT, a civic advocacy organisation focused on budget and public finance issues, says there are no comprehensive details of disbursed COVID-19 funds on the open treasury platform.Advertisement The platform, launched... Oyo to spend N279m on ballot papers for LG poll The Oyo state government says it has approved the sum of N279.5 million for the production of ballot papers for t...

  Some nine prisoners who broke jail in Nigeria on April 5 have been arrested in Ghana. They were re-arrested by the Ada District Police Command in the Greater Accra Region. The escapees are suspected to be part of over 1,800 inmates who escaped from a prison in Nigeria after it was attacked by gunmen earlier this month. The attackers reportedly entered the Nigerian prison yard in the South-Eastern town of Owerri by using explosives to blast the administrative block. According to the police, t...

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Burkina Faso’s Ex-President Compaoré Charged in 1987 Killing of Predecessor Thomas Sankara Subscribe Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/africa/202104131082621399-burkina-fasos-ex-president-compaor-charged-in-1987-killing-of-predecessor-thomas-sankara/ Before his 1987 killing, Burkinabe President Thomas Sankara predicted his defiance of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), debts to which he encouraged African nations to refuse to pay, would get him killed. Blaise Compaoré, the o...

  Mr Kwesi Adu Gyan, Bono East Regional Minister, has expressed a commitment to making agriculture attractive to the youth in the region.      He noted that the youth were the driving force for national development and needed to be empowered through agriculture.      The region is the fourth largest agriculture producer in the country with over 95 per cent of land suitable for commercial agriculture.     Mr Gyan, who was briefing the media at Techiman in the Bono Region, explained t...

+ After a year of havoc, wreaked on the economy by COVID-19, the government has laid a blueprint of bold policies and programmes to stop the spread of the virus and contain its effects; revert the economy onto the path of transformational growth and ensure prosperity for all Ghanaians. In the country’s first budget since the virus struck in March last year, the government sought the permission of Parliament to raise more revenue from the public, grant tax rebates to businesses and increase sp...

Watch as our reporter gets to sample this tasty dish from Burkina Faso Communities reporter Jenny Lamothe goes into the kitchen with Sudburian Tibila Sandiwidi to learn how to make (and to taste) one of his favourite dishes from home If there is a universal language, one method of communicating emotion, culture, heritage and welcoming, it’s the language of food. At Sudbury.com, we’re always looking for ways to share the stories of the community of Greater Sudbury and the many smaller commun...

By Amanuel T. Muhzun     Land and Water are the most valuable natural resources with the grace of renewability making life sustainable to global populations, plants, animals and the habitat in general. However, world hydrological statistics show a fast way of progression in using freshwater resources, causing serious conflicts between countries that demand mutual understanding and cooperation more than ever.   Thanks to scholars and the internet technology in providing credible books, art...