news

WAEC busted 35 people for messing with exam integrity, and 19 of them were teachers who should've known better. The council already dragged 19 suspects through court, and they caught fines or jail time, while the rest are waiting to get prosecuted. Teacher names are getting sent to education...

Ghana's Foreign Affairs Minister is warning that the whole religious tolerance debate could trash the country's unity, and he pointed out that boarding schools have always been a melting pot for breaking down ethnic and religious walls. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa went off during a speech at PRESEC...

A teenager from Amasaman ghosted his court date after allegedly jacking five sheep worth 15,000 cedis, and the judge issued a warrant to drag him in. Alhassan Yunus supposedly stole the animals from his neighbor, Mohammed Seidu, before selling them to Mariwan Amadu to settle a debt. Amadu...

A chief from Dompoase ended up in the hospital after catching a stray bullet during funeral musket firing in Obuasi, and the whole thing went down while he was greeting other traditional leaders. Nana Okofo Kwabena Bonsu II was at the ceremony for the municipal chief executive's late mom when...

WAEC dropped results for the 2025 exams, and they absolutely wrecked 653 students who brought phones into the testing rooms by canceling everything they wrote. Another 6,295 kids got their subject scores wiped because they smuggled in cheat sheets, textbooks, and printed material. The council...

Two dudes got slapped with 17 years each after they jumped some people near Golden Exotic Farm in Accra and jacked their stuff using scissors as the weapon. Lawrence Fumato and Daniel Dzoka pleaded guilty to robbery charges, and they walked away with a Royal 150 motorcycle, three different...

Child Online Africa called out the Education Minister after he admitted high school kids are watching porn on government tablets because nobody turned on the blocking features yet. The group dropped a bunch of recommendations saying the Ministry of Education needs to push out software updates...

Two cops in Ghana got hit with 13 years behind bars for running drugs, and the court basically said they torched whatever trust people had left in the force. One dude got seven years, and his buddy got six after they were busted at a checkpoint with narcotics stashed in their ride. Prosecutors...

Ghana police shut down rumors about their top cop dying, and they called the whole thing malicious garbage that needs to stop. Inspector General Christian Tetteh Yohuno is apparently doing fine and still running things, but fake reports spread around saying he was dead. Officials warned that...

Archbishop Ernest Paul Mwazha got buried at Chirasauta Mountain after passing away at 107, and thousands showed up to pay respects to the founder of the African Apostolic Church. The government declared him a national hero because of his work supporting freedom fighters during the liberation...

A guy from Mt Hampden outside Harare went through his nephew's entire stash of 17,100 bucks in less than two weeks, and it was all blown on sports bets. Munyaradzi Gumunyu got charged with theft after Brandon Chirisa handed him the cash at the airport before heading to the UK, and the money was...

Zimbabwe snagged the rights to host the permanent headquarters for this African Continental Free Trade Area company that runs the big trade expo every couple of years, and the finance minister is promising they'll cover rent and logistics going forward. The government pledged office space and...

That massive Chinese-backed steel plant down in Mvuma just fired back up after shutting down for two months to fix equipment and upgrade systems. The 1.5 billion dollar Dinson facility wrapped maintenance work and got everyone back on the job while collecting a bunch of industry awards for...

Zimbabwe's president keeps pushing this whole "build your country yourself" thing, and it apparently turned a bunch of connected business guys into mega-rich construction and mining bosses who are spreading cash around through charity projects. The government gave them sweet deals on imports and...

The army's VIP driver training program at Khumalo Barracks just wrapped up another round, and some lieutenant colonel is calling out the massive gender gap after only one woman made it through with 19 dudes. He wants the school fixing that ratio by getting more female candidates into future...

Over 300 people just finished up at some vocational center outside Harare, and the government showed up to tell them their new carpentry and mechanics skills should keep them off drugs while building the economy. Youth minister Tino Machakaire basically said learning a trade gives you purpose...

Some Zimbabwean lawmaker who attended the climate summit in Brazil is calling out the whole thing as basically pointless because the biggest polluters just ghosted the event. America, China, and India never showed up, and the US is apparently dropping cash to bring back coal plants while...

Zimbabwe's housing minister went to Nairobi and basically begged development partners to throw more cash at the Global South for building stuff, and he wants climate-proof designs baked into everything. The country keeps pushing to get a UN-Habitat office set up locally, and they're flexing...

Bobi Wine showed up ready to grill Museveni about his 40-year reign at a presidential debate, but the incumbent totally bailed on the whole thing. The opposition leader wanted to ask him what exactly the NRM is protecting with their campaign slogan, since public hospitals are falling apart...

A teenager working construction got fried by power lines in Kabalagala while plastering a half-finished building, and cops are calling out the whole industry for cutting corners on safety. The 19-year-old was up on the second floor when he touched some high-voltage cables that were way closer to...