Grace Millane murder: Man guilty of killing backpacker in New Zealand
A man who strangled a British backpacker and hid her body inside a suitcase has been found guilty of murder. Grace Millane was found buried in bushland outside Auckland, New Zealand. A jury at the city’s high court rejected claims by the 27-year-old man, who cannot be named, that she died accidentally during “rough sex”. […]
Measles kills nearly 5,000 in DR Congo
A measles outbreak has killed nearly 5,000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the beginning of the year. Cases of the contagious disease have now reached all of the country’s 26 provinces. The DR Congo is battling the world’s worst outbreak amid immense logistical challenges. The ministry of health says there have been […]
Floyd Mayweather in UFC talks to ‘come out of retirement’ in 2020
Former five-weight boxing world champion Floyd Mayweather says he is “coming out of retirement in 2020”. Mayweather, 42, made the announcement on social media after an earlier message that he was in talks with UFC president Dana White. “Dana White and I are working together again to bring the world another spectacular event in 2020,” he said. Mayweather’s […]
2019 Gold Fields Ghana Launches PGA Golf Tournament
Ghanaian Professional golfers are expected to be given stiffer opposition from their foreign competitors for prize money of ¢40,000 for the 2019 edition of the PGA Golf Tournament following the official launch on Thursday, November 21 in Accra. The annual event tees off at Tarkwa Darmang golf course and it is attracting 79 professional golfers […]
5 Firms donate towards Farmers Day
Five corporate institutions have presented cheques totalling GH¢636,000 and some farm inputs towards this year’s National Farmers Day celebration to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) The corporate institutes are ADB Bank, Sidalco Limited, Crocodile Matchets Ghana Limited, Rainbow Agroscience Company Limited and Interplast Limited. Sidalco Limited and Rainbow Agrosciences Company Limited presented agricultural […]
U-23 AFCON: Ghana to lock horns with South Africa in third-place playoff
Ghana will play South Africa for the third-place in the 2019 Africa U-23 Cup of Nations. The match will be played today in Cairo. Black Meteors were beaten 3-2 on penalties by Cote D’Ivoire while South Africa lost 2-0 to Egypt in the semi-final clash on Tuesday evening. The winner of the match will join […]
Photo of Trump’s notes becomes meme as Twitter users turn them into song lyrics
President Donald Trump can add lyricist to his resume. An image of Trump’s handwritten notes, taken by Getty Images photographer Mark Wilson, in which Trump denied seeking a quid pro quo with Ukraine, went viral on Wednesday. The notes, written in black, mostly capital letters read, “I want nothing. I want nothing. I want no […]
22nd November, 2019
The Daily Graphic commends the Ghana Education Service (GES), for the recruitment 66,357 teachers and non-teaching staff within the last three years. The paper calls on other agencies and ministries to follow the example set by the GES as it will go a long way to ease the unemployment burden of the country. The Graphic […]
Okyehene on Ghana’s education system
The Okyehene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin has called for a paradigm shift in Ghana’s education system. To this end, Science and Technology must be the driving force to help achieve this feat. Osagyefo Amoatia said this at a Lecture to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of University of Education, Winneba, at Winneba.
145 graves of an African-American cemetery found under school
The graves of 145 people have been discovered under a high school in Tampa, in the US state of Florida. They are part of Ridgewood Cemetery, a mid-20th Century cemetery for the poor. The coffins – buried 3-5ft (1-1.5m) deep – were discovered using ground-penetrating radar after the school was alerted about the possible location […]
