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The General Overseer of the Universal Spiritual Outreach Society, Prophet Kwabena Boakye Asiamah, popularly known as Ajagurajah, has warned against picking up money from the floor, especially if it is not yours, saying it makes you automatically indebted to some spirits, local media reported. “Picking money from the floor causes your salary …

The consumption of artificial sweeteners could increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, according to a French study conducted on more than 100,000 people between 2009 and 2021. Artificial sweeteners are sugar substitutes that give a deceptively sweet taste to food, without any nutritional value. However, researchers from several institutes who …

South African utility Eskom will escalate rotating power cuts from Friday afternoon until Monday morning, it said on Friday, citing a loss of generation capacity. “The Stage 3 power cuts, which will require up to 3,000 megawatts (MW) be shed from the grid, will last from 1400 local time on …

Chief Danso, a resident in Assin Fosu, a city in the Central Region of Ghana, has subjected a 10-year-old boy to torture for allegedly attempting to steal from his abandoned house, Adomonline reported. According to the website, the victim and his two other friends were allegedly caught in an attempt …

Nigerian Customs Service intercepted 7,000 donkey penises, which were heading for Hong Kong at Murtala Muhammed Airport, local media reported quoting Sambo Dangaladima, the customs controller at the airport. “The animal parts were packed in 16 sacks found in the animal export section,” said Sambo Dangaladima. He said the smell …

At least 15 people, mostly women and children, have died in Uganda after heavy rains caused landslides in Kasese in the west of the country. A spokesperson for the Uganda Red Cross says the landslides in Rukoki injured six people. The floodwaters also washed away some houses and an as …

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.8 hit Sichuan, a mountainous province in the south-west of the country on Monday, killing at least 21 people according to a new official report, given by Chinese public television CCTV. Homes have also been “seriously damaged”, roads are cut and “telecommunications cut off”. Near …

In an interview with TVI/CNN Portugal, Pope Francis reiterated that the Catholic Church must treat cases of sexual assault with “zero tolerance”, calling such acts a “monstrosity”. “It’s very clear. It’s zero tolerance. A priest cannot continue to be a priest if he is an aggressor. He cannot because he …

Police in Uganda arrested a woman who was captured in a viral video torturing her two-year-old daughter for refusing to bath, local media reported. The suspect, Dorothy a 22-year-old mother-of-three, was arrested after the viral video sparked global outrage. She was caught on footage beating her daughter repeatedly with a …

Two people died in the Nigerian commercial capital Lagos after a seven storey building under construction collapsed, Reuters reported, citing Lagos State Emergency Management Agency. The incident happened in the early hours of Sunday and rescue efforts were underway to find survivors, the agency said. The building was being constructed …