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Nobel prize-winning author Wole Soyinka today revealed that he has fulfilled his pledge to throw away his US residency green card if Donald Trump won the presidential election.
"I have already done it, I have disengaged from the United States. I have done what I said I would do," Soyinka told AFP on the sidelines of an education conference at the University of Johannesburg. "I had a horror of what is to come with Trump... I threw away the (green) card, and I have relocated, and I'm back to where I have always been."However, Soyinka said he would not discourage others from applying for a green card. "It's useful in many ways. I wouldn't for one single moment discourage any Nigerians or anybody from acquiring a green card... but I have had enough of it," he said. 

When a 911 call came in, apparently from Kanye West's doctor, about an incident involving the rapper at a Los Angeles home, the dispatcher advised: "Don't let him get any weapons."
The details of the 911 call made from a home in the 900 block of North Laurel Avenue, released Thursday to The Times in accordance with public records laws, provide new insight into what led to the rapper's hospitalization for more than a week.

The phone call recording, which does not specifically identify West or include West's voice, indicates a level of concern by those around him that he seek professional help.

A man who identified himself to a dispatcher as "one of his doctors" quickly requested police backup as well as paramedics.

"I think, he's definitely going to need to be hospitalized," the caller said. "I wouldn't just do the police by itself."
A dispatcher later asks: "What is the medical condition he's having, sir?&quo…

Comedian Klint Da Drunk and his wife, Lilien are celebrating their daughter, Adaora's 1st birthday today. Beautiful new family photos were shared via their respective Instagram accounts. Happy Birthday to the little girl. 

See more photos after the cut.

This December, GOtv is restructuring the GOtv offering to give subscribers a more enhanced viewing pleasure and great value for money.
This restructure will result in the termination of Viasat One off GOtv Plus, Value and Lite from 22 December 2016.  The termination will allow GOtv to create capacity to continue to bring our valued GOtv customers a more diverse and exciting offering which includes a brand new local channel to the platform, Planet TV.
GOgetters can look forward to the addition of Planet TV from the 23rd of December. Planet TV, Africa’s foremost interactive music platform brings you the continents biggest songs, artistes, your shouts and celebrity news plus will be available on all three GOtv bouquets on channel 160.

E-Connecta on Wednesday, November 30, 2016, launched the SkyFi internet services to give customers access to faster internet experience at the Accra Technical University.
The new internet facility offers a lot of opportunities for growth to a developing economy like Ghana. The Internet has already improved development by making communication more efficient in Africa.

Mr. Kobina Richardson, Acting CEO of E-Connecta commenting on the facility said with the World heading to the internet of days, an increasing number of individuals, businesses and institutions are going to find it more challenging to cope without access to a good and a reliable internet.
According to him, this has created a huge market for internet usage but the internet market in Ghana still lacks innovation needed by the consumer to take advantage of the potentials and technological benefits available.
Mr. Richardson said, SkyFi has identified the internet market as an entry point in providing a wide range of servic…

US President-elect Donald Trump took a populist tone on the campaign trail, pledging to stand for a beleaguered working class abandoned by the elite. 
Yet, as he selects his cabinet, observers are already pointing out that he is putting together the richest administration in US history. 

So far, his choices include a billionaire investor, a woman who married into a retail dynasty and a multi-millionaire banker. 
Democrats have been quick to the attack. "Donald Trump's administration: of, by and for the millionaires and billionaires," tweeted Bernie Sanders, a Vermont senator who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination. 

Mr Trump, of course, brings immense wealth to his new role. The property tycoon's worth is estimated at $3.7bn (£3bn) by Forbes magazine, with more than 500 businesses in his empire.
But he might not be the richest member of his team. His nominee for education secretary, Betsy Devos, is the daughter-in-law of Richard DeVos, who founded the A…

Selena Gomez rules Instagram. 
The photo-sharing site released its year-end data Thursday showing the 24-year-old pop star has the most followers of any celebrity (103 million) and was responsible for nearly all of the most-liked celebrity posts in 2016.

Gomez beat out bestie Taylor Swift (93.6 million followers), Beyonce (88.9 million followers) and Kylie and Kendall Jenner (79.5 million and 68.9 million followers, respectively) to top the site's list of most popular celebs. The only men among the top 10 were soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo (82.3 million followers) and Dwayne Johnson (71 million followers).

Gomez also had eight of the 10 most popular celebrity photos and seven of the top 10 celebrity videos.

Her most popular picture, with 5.2 million likes, is an ad for Coke. It shows the singer in a red dress, her lips around a red-striped straw in a bottle she holds with long red fingernails. Other popular snaps show her performing onstage and posing with a fan. Ronaldo pos…

Billionaire Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan celebrated their daughter, Maxima's 1st birthday party on Wednesday, She was born on Nov 30, 2015. Celebrating her, Mark shared a photo from the party and wrote:
"I can't believe it's been a year! And she kissed me on the cheek for the fir st time yesterday :) Here's to many more years of happiness and health for Max and all children around the world."

Gambia has banned the internet, international phone calls and any form of demonstrations, as their presidential election holds today. A former security guard, Adama Barrow (Right) is challenging the President, Yahya Jammeh (Left), who is seeking a fifth term.. That is, to continue his 22 year rule...

Jammeh seized power during a 1994 military coup and has been labelled an Islamist autocrat, with Human Rights groups accusing him of abuses and repression of opposition.

Mr Barrow, who was once a security guard in UK high street store, Argos, gained a lot of support from those opposing the President. "He is leading the most credible challenge to Mr Jammeh’s power since his 1994 military coup," BBC Africa reports. Several previously better-known opposition leaders are in jail after taking part in a rare protest in April.

The results of the election are not expected to be announced immediately. President Jammeh has also warned his rivals against contesting the outcome of…

Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn was proclaimed king of Thailand late Thursday, opening a new chapter for the powerful monarchy in a country still mourning the death of his father.
Vajiralongkorn, 64, who inherits one of the world's richest monarchies as well as a politically troubled nation, ascends the throne 50 days after King Bhumibol Adulyadej's death.

After weeks of complex palace protocols the prince was invited by the head of the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) to ascend the throne in an event broadcast on all Thai television channels.

"I agree to accept the wishes of the late king... for the benefit of the entire Thai people," Vajiralongkorn, who was named heir for more than 40 years, said.

The sombre ceremony at his Bangkok palace was attended by junta leader Prayut Chan-O-Cha, the powerful head of the privy council and the chief of the NLA.

Red-jacketed courtiers looked on as a palace staff member shuffling on his knees presented the new king with…

Handling a customer is the most demanding of all jobs, but very critical in keeping the reputation of a company.

It’s vital for employees, especially the frontline ones to understand the importance of the ideal customer-organisation relationship.

Companies must devote the right time and invest in technology to handle customers since they play a crucial role in their existence.

The quality of product is important but in the present scenario before and after sales services provided by the organization is an inevitable factor.

Here are five steps to take your customer service to a new high level:

1. Communication with customers: Checking in with your customers provides regular feedback and helps build trust, loyalty and keeps their satisfaction at a level high. There are diverse means including video chat online, live video conference, live chat etc that could help you to reach your client base at any point in time with ease and vice versa. Customer satisfaction is an ongoing proce…

The 2016 Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has said he wants to be president of a united country after the December polls.

“I have spent nearly four decades of my life standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the people of Ghana in advancing the course of democracy. I want to be president of a united country that is at peace with itself,” Akufo-Addo said.

Pledging his commitment to peace at a meeting by the National Peace Council in Accra on Thursday, 1 December, where all seven presidential candidates contesting in this year’s election signed a peace pact ahead of the polls, Nana Addo said the NPP wants to win a free and fair election and the party will, therefore, not do anything to endanger the peace of Ghana.

“Over the course of the last 24 months, the NPP has fashioned out a comprehensive programme which we believe will lead to a rapid development of our country Ghana, and significant improvement in the standards of living…

Drake has been named Spotify's most-streamed artist of 2017, with his single One Dance the site's biggest song of the year.
The Canadian star racked up 4.7 billion streams this year, more than half of which were for his album Views.
That's despite the album being withheld from Spotify for two weeks as part of a deal with Apple Music.
One Dance alone was streamed 960 million times. Played consecutively, that would take more than 5,200 years.
The song's popularity on streaming services - including Deezer and Google Play as well as Spotify and Apple - helped it spend 15 weeks on top of the official UK singles chart, the longest run since Bryan Adams Everything I Do (I Do It For You) in 1991.
It is now Spotify's most-streamed song of all time, earning Drake and his co-writers an estimated $4.8m (£3.9m) in royalties. 
Rihanna - who counts Drake as a collaborator and boyfriend - was Spotify's most-streamed female artist of 2016, while former One Direction star Zayn …

An influential Saudi prince has called for an "urgent" end to his country's ban on women driving saying it is a matter not just of rights but of economic necessity.

"Stop the debate: Time for women to drive," Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said on his official Twitter account.

كفى نقاش:

حان وقت قيادة المرأة للسيارةhttps://t.co/BBgyF8i1Gs

Stop the debate:

Time for women to drivehttps://t.co/6KAniFa4BT — الوليد بن طلال (@Alwaleed_Talal) November 29, 2016
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is an unusually forthright member of Saudi Arabia's extensive royal family.

He holds no political posts but chairs Kingdom Holding Co that has interests including in US banking giant Citigroup and the Euro Disney theme park.

He is a longtime advocate of women's rights in the conservative Islamic kingdom, which has some of the world's tightest restrictions on women and is the only country where they are not allowed to drive.

After his short tweet, Prince Alwaleed's office i…

The sovereignty of every nation is in the hands of its citizens. It is therefore assumed that every worker in the country - be it employees in the private and public sectors are entitled to vote provided he/she is a registered voter. Some organisations do not allow its employees to participate in active partisan politics for many good reasons.

However, some institutions do not really bother their employees with what they do with their time outside of the working environment once it does not compromise their performance and put the company’s brand and goodwill in bad light.

It is however not advisable to be engaged in active partisan politics in the office setting, by either displaying party paraphernalia, discussing party activities in the office or during working hours. Every employee has the civic responsibility to exercise his/her franchise as enshrined in the 1992 constitution.

Management and Human Resource practitioners should ensure that there is a comprehensive policy …

Over one hundred thousand Ghanaians will today head to designated polling stations in Ghana to cast their ballot in a Special Voting exercise ahead of the main polls next week.

The special Voting will be taking place in some 275 polling stations across the country.
Meanwhile, there have been concerns over the list realesed for the exercise by the electoral commission.

In the Volta and Northern regions, some security personnel have complained of missing names, among others. The EC is yet to comment on such concerns.

Special voting is a special dispensation under the electoral laws that allows registered voters who will not be able to present themselves at their polling stations on voting day as a result of the roles they will play in the elections to vote on a date before the rest of the electorate vote on the date set for the elections.

The category of people who are allowed to do special voting are security personnel, officials of the EC and journalists.

Award winning South African sports broadcaster and MC, Carol Tshabalala, is set to take center stage once again this Saturday, 3 December 2016, as she is set to host the first La Liga activation in South Africa at the Nelson Mandela Square in Sandton.

The activation will include exhibitions from all the La Liga teams, giveaways, live performances by the likes of award winning rapper, Cassper Nyovest, and entrance will be free for all.

The First Lady of Sports will also get an opportunity to interview retired French international footballer and current La Liga ambassador Christian Karembeu.

By hosting the first La Liga activation in the country Carol Tshabalala proves once again why she is the undisputed First Lady of Sports with her work being globally recognised and respected within the sporting fraternity. 

Carol Tshabalala will also be interacting with the crowd as they wait in anticipation to watch the El Clasico between Barcelona and Real Madrid live on the big screens…

Police in Bekwai in the Ashanti Region have begun investigations into a road crash in which six people, including a three-month-old baby, died on the spot.
Ten others who suffered serious injuries were rushed separately to nearby Abenkyiman and Dominase SDA Hospitals, and later referred to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.

Wednesday’s tragedy at Ofoase Kokoben on the Kumasi-Obuasi Highway was the result of a head-on collision between a Mercedes Benz 207 passenger bus and a fuel tanker.
The passenger vehicle, with registration  AW 1658 Z was bound for Kumasi from Dunkwa-on-Offin in the Central Region while the tanker was moving in the opposite direction.
The impact of the collision was so severe some of the victims were thrown from the vehicle before being trapped under the wreckage.
Fire personnel spent hours off-loading fuel from the crashed tanker onto another track in order to ensure there was no explosion.
It’s unclear what actually caused the accident but eye-witnesses suggest…

The Queen’s Young Leaders Programme is today delighted to reveal that 60 young people from across the Commonwealth, including Elijah Amoo Addo, Efua Asibon and Winnifred Selby from Ghana, have been selected to receive a prestigious Queen’s Young Leaders Award.

The Queen’s Young Leaders Awards recognise and celebrate exceptional young people aged 18 to 29 in the Commonwealth who are driving change within their communities and transforming people’s lives. Now in its third and penultimate year, the 60 young people announced today become part of the growing Queen’s Young Leaders community, a unique network of influential young change-makers who are coming together and being supported to become an even greater force for good. They will receive their Award from Her Majesty The Queen at a ceremony in London next year.

This year, Award winners are leading projects tackling global issues including education, climate change, gender equality, mental health and disability equality. El…

Singer, Rihanna welcomed Prince Harry in Barbados for their Independence Day celebration. He visited a children's home in Barbados after the celebration. Prince Harry met some of the children who call Nightingale home, learning about the support available from members of staff, and officially opening two of the Home's recently renovated buildings.  

More photos after the cut...