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Johnson Sirleaf is new ECOWAS chairperson

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have elected President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as its new chairperson. This was announced at the 49th ECOWAS heads of state meeting which opened in Dakar, Senegal on Saturday. She replaces Senegalese President, Macky Sall whose tenure ends after he took over from Ghana’s President John Mahama in 2015. (more…)

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Ghana bans Lecturers from selling handouts to students

The sale of handouts by lecturers to students have been banned by minister of education Prof Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang. In a speech read on her behalf by the Ashanti regional minister, John Alexander Ackon at the 11th congregation of the Kumasi Polytechnic last Saturday, Prof. Opoku-Agyemang said apart from the sale of handouts putting extra financial pressure on students, those who failed to purchase such handouts were often targeted and unfairly treated. The minister said the issue had been repeatedly reported to the government so that the president directs that a b

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Britain’s worst paedophile given 22 life sentences

Richard Huckle, 30, admitted an unprecedented number of offences against children aged between six months and 12 years from 2006 to 2014 when he masqueraded as a devout Christian, photographer and English teacher to prey on poor children in Kuala Lumpur over nine years. A series of pictures and videos of his rapes and assaults on children were shared with paedophiles worldwide through an encrypted website. He even tried to make a business out of his horrific crimes by crowd-funding the release of the images and was compiling a paedophile’s manual at the time of his a