Krif Ghana decided to give the late Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings a posthumous award at their Regal Influence Summit because she apparently crushed it when it came to women's empowerment and development work across Africa. Managing Director Awura Adjoa Okosun dropped by the Rawlings family place and explained they are honoring her contributions at the awards gala, which got pushed back from late November to late January since her state funeral was happening during the original dates.
Executive Chairman Kennedy Okosun said they could not run such a high-profile event while the country was holding a state burial for someone who left such a massive mark on Ghana's history. The whole summit got moved to the Labadi Beach hotel in Accra and...
A Wesley Grammar School bus packed with 83 kids and five teachers went up in flames near the Kasoa Tollbooth, but everyone bailed before things got bad. Sports teacher Richard Boafo spotted smoke while they were heading to some athletic competition at Ngleshie Amanfro Senior High School and got everybody off the vehicle immediately.
The fire torched the whole bus after evacuation was complete, and nobody got hurt in the incident. Authorities have not figured out what caused the blaze yet.
Akosua Serwaa's attorney is throwing around bigamy accusations and says Odo Broni could catch charges if she tries claiming she married Daddy Lumba. The lawyer pointed out that the only official marriage certificate has Serwaa listed as the wife, and anyone else showing up with wedding photos or paperwork would be committing a crime. He said he is holding back from pressing charges because kids are involved in the mess.
Legal nerds watching the case say the bigamy angle falls apart if Serwaa is actually dead, since marriages end when someone dies. The whole situation has people arguing about how Ghana's bigamy laws actually work, and everyone is waiting to see what the Kumasi High Court decides.
The National Muslim Conference fired back at some Christian groups who got weird about religious freedom in mission schools that take government money. They pointed out that the Ghana Education Service already has rules letting Muslim students wear hijabs and skip worship services from other faiths, plus there was a whole agreement signed last year about being inclusive in schools that get state funding.
The conference made it clear they are not asking for mosques to be built inside Christian schools. Muslim kids just want to pray, fast, and not be forced into religious stuff that goes against their beliefs. They also noted that Islamic schools do not make Christian students participate in Muslim activities or wear hijabs, so the same...
Samsung Display is apparently shuffling its whole dev structure around because Apple keeps asking for fancier screens, and The Elec says the moves started back in June, but more changes are coming. The company merged a bunch of scattered teams into one consolidated unit called the A-Development Office that's grinding on OLED tech for the iPhone 18 lineup and some folding iPhone that might exist.
There's also a new M Business Development Team working on tiny one-inch micro displays for XR headsets, which makes sense since Samsung just put out its Galaxy XR mixed reality goggles as a budget competitor to the Vision Pro. Apple also buys panels from LG Display, so Samsung is clearly trying to lock down more of that contract work with...
Samsung dropped a new portable SSD called the T7 Resurrected that hits the same speeds as the old T7 but gets made entirely from recycled aluminum scraps left over from Galaxy phone production. The case skips the paint job to show off raw metal while cutting down on chemicals, and the whole package uses recycled paper with soy-based ink. Performance-wise, it pushes 1,050 MB/s reads and 1,000 MB/s writes over USB 3.2 Gen 2.
The drive works across phones, tablets, game consoles, Windows, and macOS while packing AES 256-bit encryption and surviving drops from two meters up. It comes in 1TB for $119.99, 2TB for $205.99, and 4TB for $378.99 starting at the end of November.
Qwertykeys just dropped pre-orders for the QK65 MK3 mechanical keyboard after teasing it for weeks with retro gaming vibes and a little customizable screen. The barebones kit starts at $199 and gets you the case, PCB with display hardware, your choice of plate, and stabilizers. If you grab a $14 keycap set, they throw in 70 Rye switches for free, which is honestly a solid deal since caps and switches usually run way more elsewhere.
This 65% board comes in five throwback colors and lets you pick between aluminum, polypropylene, or FR4 plates for different sound profiles. The display can run custom animations, show time with a typing-reactive cat or dog, or even play a mini-game called Animal Supermarket. Two low-profile knobs handle OS...
The Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipal Assembly just cleared out a bunch of hawkers and unauthorized camps from major roads in the Western Region. Alex Damtey from environmental health said vendors had basically taken over the Takoradi-Bogoso highway with permanent vehicle setups and half-lane sales operations, which kept causing accidents. They also found foreign nationals setting up makeshift camps near UMaT Basic School and living in pretty rough conditions.
Police Commander Eric Akwaboa warned that security forces will stick around to keep people from coming back, and next time they won't give anyone a chance to grab their stuff before confiscating everything. Immigration Commander Kweku Lindsay explained that some foreigners were getting...
A 21-year-old interior decorator got locked up after allegedly kidnapping and assaulting a 15-year-old student in Atwima-Koforidua. Richard Agyei Bonsu entered a not-guilty plea at the Asante Abuakwa circuit court and will face another hearing next month after cops said he kept the teenager in his room for over 24 hours.
Police claim the girl met an accomplice who assaulted her first before Bonsu took her to his place and held her there until the next afternoon. She went straight home and told her uncle what happened, and he grabbed some people to track down the suspect and hand him over to the authorities. The guy apparently admitted to everything when officers questioned him.
