A Chinese dude got busted in Harare for allegedly running an illegal money transfer scheme and dodging the country's currency rules. Authorities say the guy was taking cash from clients and sending it to China without going through official banking channels or getting Reserve Bank approval, which is super illegal there.
Cops rolled up during an anti-money-laundering operation and found nearly 192k in US dollars at his place, plus a bunch of receipts and paperwork that supposedly prove he was moving money outside normal channels. The businessman couldn't explain where all that cash came from, and prosecutors claim he was paying foreign suppliers directly instead of routing everything through the proper exchange control system. He posted...
Zimbabwe's anti-corruption watchdog just dropped its second major strategy to fight graft over the next five years. The commission held a workshop to validate the plan, which targets mining, government contracts, schools, and data systems as the riskiest areas for shady dealings.
The strategy rests on five main ideas: better laws, stronger institutions, tougher enforcement, less public vulnerability, and sector-specific fixes. They consulted over 1,500 people across all 10 provinces to build the thing. The principal compliance officer said they want full-chain enforcement from catching crooks to seizing their assets, with undercover ops and wealth probes in the mix.
But the commission chair acknowledged serious roadblocks like budget...
The Asantehene just wrapped what people are calling the most productive Bawku peace talks yet, and he's about to drop his findings with President Mahama any day. Otumfuo Osei Tutu II got Kusaasi and Mamprusi reps together at Manhyia Palace, and both sides apparently left feeling good enough that some minor celebrating broke out in the courtyard afterward. Security had to step in when a hyped-up Mamprusi supporter whacked a Kusaasi car outside, but it got shut down fast without turning into anything bigger.
The king is putting together a full report with whatever deals got hammered out, plus his take on keeping things stable long-term. This whole thing is supposedly a big step toward actually ending the conflict between the two groups.
Ghana Communication Technology University just pushed out over 2,100 graduates, with most of them coming from the computing and IT programs. Vice-Chancellor Emmanuel Afoakwa talked up the school's expansion plans, which include an eight-story lecture complex dropping before the year ends and a six-story graduate building finishing up early next year. They're also launching some innovation lab meant to help students build startups and link up with companies.
The university is tackling its housing crisis through a public-private partnership for new dorms, and they're planning to demolish the old engineering building to put up a modern replacement with fancy labs. Deputy Education Minister Clement Apak showed up and went on about how the...
Ghana's National Peace Council is basically drowning under a mountain of unresolved disputes while running on fumes, and Chairman Emmanuel Fianu went on TV3 to air out all the problems. The organization has 83 people on staff when they actually need 400 just for regional work, and close to 1,000 if they want district-level coverage that could actually make a dent nationwide. Over 300 cases are sitting in limbo because there aren't enough bodies to handle the workload.
Money is another disaster since the government only coughed up half of their 5 million cedi budget allocation, and most of that cash went straight to salaries and keeping the lights on. The Peace Fund that was supposed to save everything has scraped together a pathetic...
The head of Adepa Teachers' Credit Union is telling members to stop treating loans like free money and actually save instead. Dorothy Adentwi-Hayford went off at their anniversary event about how people keep taking out loans without any plan to pay them back, which is tanking the whole system for everyone else. The union is resorting to texts, house calls, and even lawsuits to chase down the deadbeats.
Despite the loan drama, their numbers look pretty solid. Savings jumped 62 percent to over 56 million cedis, and total assets grew by more than half to hit 67 million. They went from 96 employees to 125 and opened ten branches across Ghana.
CEO Joseph Acquaye mentioned they hire based on work ethic rather than grades, giving high school...
This Prempeh College grad named Tetteh Edward Jr just crushed WASSCE with a 6 aggregate for the second time in his academic career, and he's asking companies and donors to bankroll his medical school dreams. The kid already pulled the same score back at Baptist JHS in Ashanti Mampong, and he's trying to get into a doctor program at the university level.
Edward credits his parents for backing him through everything, and he says meeting successful Prempeh alumni who made it into medicine pushed him to grind harder. His whole study method was about staying consistent with daily work instead of trying to be perfect, which helped him avoid falling behind when exam stress hit. The guy wants to become a surgeon because he thinks it mixes...
After almost ten years stuck in legal purgatory, Gregory Afoko just walked out of an Accra courtroom because the system basically gave up on prosecuting him for the acid attack that killed NPP regional chairman Adams Mahama back in 2015. The judge pulled the plug after watching the trial get postponed over six times with zero movement, and the jury situation was completely cooked with only five people showing up when they needed seven.
His co-accused, Asabke Alangdi, already got convicted, but Afoko's case turned into this never-ending nightmare of delays, missing jurors, and administrative chaos. A mistrial happened years ago when the original judge died, and things just kept spiraling from there. Human rights people have been...
The widow of highlife legend Daddy Lumba is taking her fight to the appeals court after getting shut down at the High Court level. Akosua Serwaa wanted recognition as his sole legitimate wife, and her lawyer, William Kusi, says they're filing the paperwork to challenge the ruling that tossed her case.
Kusi thinks the court messed up by not accepting that their marriage was an ordinance-style union, which would have blocked the musician from getting hitched to anyone else. He's pushing back against claims that they botched the marriage certificate verification with German authorities, saying Ghanaian law gives them multiple ways to submit documents, and they followed the rules.
The whole drama started because different family members...
