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Renowned Ghanaian composer, Elder S.K. Ampiah dies aged 99

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Elder S.K. Ampiah

Renowned Ghanaian composer, Elder Samuel Kofi Ampiah of the Apostolic Church-Ghana, has passed away at the age of 99.

He died on Sunday, March 31, 2024, and his passing was announced by the church on Wednesday.

Elder S.K Ampiah served as an Elder of the Apostolic Church-Ghana for over 60 years and was a minister who composed several Pentecostal songs for the church and the body of Christ.

Elder Ampiah will be remembered for his numerous songs including popular ones like “Sɛ w’ahu Yesu a ma ne nwuma pa no ntena wo mu” , “Mo mma yɛn mma Yesu mo”, “Awurade gyina m’akyi”, “Yesu ne wu na” and many others.

“The leadership and the entire congregation of the Church extend their deepest sympathies to the family for their loss,” the Apostolic Church-Ghana posted.

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Zack Orji underwent two brain surgeries, he is fine

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Zack Orji

President of the Actors Guild of Nigeria, Emeka Rollas, has given an update on the health status of veteran actor Zack Orji after a death hoax.

Mr Orji was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit of the National Hospital in Abuja on New Year’s Eve.

In an interview on Afia TV on YouTube, Mr Rollas revealed the veteran actor underwent two brain surgeries after he had collapsed and has significantly improved.

“Zack is never in a position of seriously needing attention as we speak, if not because of privacy I would have just connected him on the phone here, you will see him. He has survived two brain surgeries, he is in good health, and he is speaking. For somebody to wake up and say that Zack has passed on, is inhuman,” the AGN President said.

Mr Rollas noted that at the moment, preparations are being made to send Zack Orji abroad for post-surgery evaluation. He chastised people for spreading fake rumours about the actor adding that the news was distressing for his family, especially his wife.

“Because of the internet age, people just want to grow their page and they can spill nonsense, that was why somebody woke up yesterday morning and said Zack has passed on and I quickly reacted,” Mr Rollas said.

Zack Orji was hospitalised at the Intensive Care Unit of Abuja’s National Hospital after he collapsed in his house’s toilet.

Subsequent reports days later indicated a significant improvement in his condition. However, since then there has been no public update on his health.

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I dreamt that I’ll become President someday –Prince David Osei

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Prince David Osei

Actor Prince David Osei says his aspiration to become the President of Ghana is a divine calling.

According to him, many people assumed he was joking when he first made his ambition known.

However, he believes this is one of the things God has bestowed upon him.

“Everyone in this world has something that God gives to them. Sometimes when you speak, they say you talk big but if you don’t say it, it won’t manifest.

“It’s not even that I want to become a president, I think I have the calling, because I’ve dreamt it,” the actor said on Joy FM’s Showbiz A-Z over the weekend.

“What I’m doing here right now today, I dreamt it before becoming a star. I’m not joking. When I was 14 years old, I knew I was going to become somebody popular.

“I didn’t know what it was, but I started praying towards it. And in the same way, I saw the president’s vision,” Prince David Osei stated.

He told the host Kwame Dadzie that, Prophet Amoako Atta had also made a similar prophecy although they do not know each other well.

Prince David Osei said, “When we say stuff it’s not like maybe we are drunk or I might not look like it but who are you to judge? God chooses to make anybody what he wants to make. How many years have you given yourself for this to come to fruition?”

The actor first made his ambitions to be in Ghana’s highest office known in October 2023 drawing scepticism from fans and colleagues.

Taking to Instagram, he drew inspiration from America’s first Black President, Barrack Obama, and believed his dream would one day become a reality.

“No matter how hard I try to avoid the calling, everything shows I have to be the president someday, that’s why my friends in the game don’t want to support me…But what is written is written,” he wrote.

Meanwhile, when asked if he would accept an appointment in the next NPP government, the actor said he was not opposed to the idea.

He noted that he would readily accept it if he had the expertise in the area he would being appointed to.

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Zimbabwe declares national disaster over drought

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Zimbabwe needs $2bn to address the effects of the drought

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared a national disaster to tackle the prolonged drought crisis.

Mr Mnangagwa said on Wednesday the country needs $2bn (£1.6bn) to tackle hunger caused by low rainfall which has wiped out about half of the maize crop.

The grain shortage has pushed up food prices and an estimated 2.7 million people will face hunger.

Neighbouring Zambia and Malawi have also declared states of disasters due to drought recently.

The drought is a result of the El Nino global weather pattern and has triggered a humanitarian crisis in southern Africa.

Zimbabwe now joins the regional scramble to find enough maize on the international market.

Authorities say that the number of people needing food aid will be higher than the initial projection. Zimbabwe was once the breadbasket of southern Africa, but in recent years has suffered bouts of severe drought affecting crop and cattle.

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Uganda’s Constitutional Court rejects petition against anti-gay law

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Uganda Constitutional Court

Uganda’s Constitutional Court has rejected a petition seeking to annul an anti-gay law that has been roundly condemned internationally as one of the toughest in the world.

The court found on Wednesday that some sections of the law violated the right to health and it was “inconsistent with right to health, privacy and freedom of religion” but did not block or suspend the law.

According to Ugandan television station NTV, the five-member court reached a unanimous decision to reject the petition against the law, which enjoys broad popular support in the country.

In a statement posted on X, the Uganda-based Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum warned that the decision “unfortunately will fuel human rights violations” against the gay community in the country.

Steven Kabuye, a 25-year old activist and executive director of the advocacy group Colored Voice Truth to LGBTQ, also warned against the dangers of the court decision. In January, he was stabbed by unknown assailants after receiving death threats for his advocacy.

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More than 50,000 flee Haiti capital after surge in gang violence

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Most of those fleeing have headed south

Tens of thousands of people have fled the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, to escape a surge in gang violence over the past weeks.

United Nations figures suggest more than 53,000 left between 8-27 March.

The UN is warning that the rural regions to which many have fled are not equipped to deal with such a large influx of displaced people.

Meanwhile, gangs are attacking businesses in the capital, torching pharmacies and vandalising schools.

Haiti’s national police succeeded in repelling an attack on the presidential palace on Monday but armed men stormed the nearby State University of Haiti hospital, known by its initials HUEH, to use it as their command centre. HUEH had closed last month due to the violence and was meant to reopen on Monday. The damage caused by the gangs is likely to further delay its reopening.

Access to healthcare, which was already severely restricted, has become even more difficult after armed men looted a hospital in the Delmas 18 neighbourhood and the Saint-Martin health centre last week.

Criminal gangs control not only the main port in Port-au-Prince but also many of the city’s access roads, making it difficult to transport medical supplies.

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White House wants Moon to have its own time zone

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Moon to have its own time zone

The White House wants US space agency Nasa to develop a new time zone for the Moon – Coordinated Lunar Time (CLT). Because of the different gravitational field strength on the Moon, time moves quicker there relative to Earth – 58.7 microseconds every day. This might not seem like much, but it can have a significant impact when trying to synchronise spacecraft.

The US government hopes the new time will help keep national and private efforts to reach the moon co-ordinated. Prof Catherine Heymans, Scotland’s Astronomer Royal, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “This fundamental theory of gravity in our Universe has an important consequence that time runs differently in different places in the Universe.

Time is currently measured on Earth by hundreds of atomic clocks stationed around our planet which measure the changing energy state of atoms to record time to the nanosecond.

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Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany

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Botswana have too many elephants

The president of Botswana has threatened to send 20,000 elephants to Germany in a dispute over conservation. Earlier this year, Germany’s environment ministry suggested there should be stricter limits on importing trophies from hunting animals. Botswana’s President Mokgweetsi Masisi told German media this would only impoverish people in his country.

He said elephant numbers had exploded as a result of conservation efforts, and hunting helped keep them in check.

Germans should “live together with the animals, in the way you are trying to tell us to”, Mr Masisi told German newspaper Bild. “This is no joke.” Botswana is home to about a third of the world’s elephant population – over 130,000 – more than it has space for.

Herds were causing damage to property, eating crops and trampling residents, Mr Masisi said.

Botswana has previously given 8,000 elephants to neighbouring Angola, and has offered hundreds more to Mozambique, as a means of bringing the population down.

“We would like to offer such a gift to Germany,” Mr Masisi said, adding that he would not take no for an answer.

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Rescue efforts continue after 700 injured in Taiwan earthquake

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Taiwan earthquake

Rescue efforts are under way in Taiwan after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the island’s eastern coast, killing at least nine and injuring more than 800. Some 127 people are trapped in collapsed tunnels and on mountainous roads along the rugged coastline.

The epicentre was 18km (11 miles) south of Hualien city, but strong tremors were felt all the way in the capital Taipei, more than 100km away.

This is the strongest quake to hit Taiwan in 25 years. It also triggered tsunami alerts earlier in the day in nearby Japanese and Philippine islands which were later retracted. It caused the most damage in Hualien, where buildings fell, roads were blocked and train lines disrupted, leaving the remote region even more cut off from the rest of Taiwan.

But social media was soon filled with extraordinary footage of landslides along the coast. They tumbled down the mountains, making huge clouds billow up from the sea as they crashed into it.

Rescue operations to reach 77 people trapped in the Jinwen and Qingshui tunnels along the road in Hualien were continuing into the night. Wednesday’s earthquake hit at 07:58 local time (23:58 GMT) at a depth of 15.5km and set off at least nine aftershocks at magnitude 4 or larger.

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Appianin Ennin To Contest Obuasi West Seat As Independent Candidate

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Appianin Ennin declaring to contest as Independent Candidate

A private businessman in Obuasi, Mr Kofi Appianin Ennin, has declared his intention to contest the Obuasi West Constituency parliamentary seat as an Independent Candidate, in the upcoming general elections in December 2024.

Mr Kwaku Kwarteng, the incumbent MP and Madam Faustilove Appiah Kannin, have filed to contest the seat as New Patriotic Party (NPP) and National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidates respectively.

Declaring his intention to his supporters at the Kunka Market Square in the Obuasi Municipality after a three-hour walk through the streets of Obuasi, Mr Appianin Ennin said he was coming to save the people of Obuasi West from the machinations of both the NPP and NDC.

He stated that the current delegates system to select a candidate to parliament is not the best, as huge money is doled out to influence the selection process.

The aspiring Independent Candidate said the money aspiring MPs spend on delegates was so huge that it could be used on something else that could benefit the entire people in the Constituency.

The teeming supporters of Mr Appianin Ennin

He stated, “Appianin Ennin as an Independent Candidate is not going to pay money to any delegate but expects the entire voter population of Obuasi West Constituency to vote for me.”

He pointed out that in his private capacity as a businessman he has helped many people by way of employment and also given out loans without interest to others. He promised to support a lot of people in Obuasi West if given the nod to lead them in Parliament.

A spokesperson for the ‘Appianin Ennin Supporters’,  Mr. Kofi Owusu Ansah, assured that as a group they would raise money to buy nomination forms for him and campaign for him to win the Obuasi West Constituency seat.

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