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A Nigerian air force fighter jet on a mission against Boko Haram extremists mistakenly bombed a refugee camp on Tuesday, killing more than 100 refugees and aid workers, a Borno state official said.
The state government official, who was helping to coordinate the evacuation of wounded from the remote area by helicopters, spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters.
Military commander Maj. Gen. Lucky Irabor confirmed the accidental bombardment in northeast Rann, near the border with Cameroon, saying "some" civilians were killed.
It was believed to be the first time Nigeria's military has admitted to making such a mistake.
The International Committee for the Red Cross said six staff members and volunteers with the Nigerian Red Cross were among the dead and 13 were wounded. "They were part of a team that had brought in desperately needed food for over 25,000 displaced persons," spokesman Jason St…

Songstress Kati G has release an inspirational song tilted "He Loves Me" . Of hiighlife groove, the melody basks in the affection showered in symbol to us by the almighty God.
The performer, who has usual broad acclaim for the soothing space of her voice, has already been complex bearing in mind key contemporary acts including Okyeame Kwame, and dancehall singer Epixode.

Distinguishing herself  as a versatile performer, Kati believes she is ready to receive in version to the world behind her music but received that she can get that unaided through hard discharge loyalty-dogfight and perseverance.
Kati G was born to a Ghanaian mother and father based in the US, at age eight, Catherine Eno Adutwumwaa Owusu-Sakyi  her real name began her music career when she decided to learn how to play the cello and clarinet.

The songtress has covered songs with Joey B's (You x Me and Skin Tight) by Mr. Eazi, Teckno's (Pana) and this is her endorsed single for the year and she is conve…

A prophet who gives his congregants engine cleaning fluid to heal them, says the liquid tastes like honey.
Prophet Theo Bongani Maseko of the Breath of Christ Ministries in Daveyton said the chemical attacks viruses in a person’s body and detects demons.


Maseko said his methods posed no health danger and admitted to drinking the fluid himself.

“It tastes like honey. I drank it twice,” he said.

The prophet claims that none of his congregants have ever been admitted to hospital following a healing session.

“They were all healed, they came with a testimony. Five people have been healed," said Maseko, who claimed to have received his calling before he was born.

Maseko joins the ever growing list of controversial pastors who have in recent times performed dubious methods during church services.

Other pastors have made congregants eat grass, rodents and snakes, drink petrol and sprayed them with Doom insect killer.

Maseko had nothing but praise for his fellow controversial clergymen.

“I se…

Andre Ayew scored the only goal of the game to give Ghana a 1-0 victory over Uganda in their opening Group D match at the Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon.
The West Ham winger slotted in a penalty on 32 minutes after captain Asamoah Gyan had been pulled back.
Ghana also threatened through two Gyan headers, while Ayew and Christian Atsu tested Uganda goalkeeper Denis Onyango.
Uganda came closest when Faruku Miya hit the outside of a post but could not to force their way back into the game.
It was a disappointing return for Uganda, who are playing at their first Nations Cup since 1978 when they lost in the final to then hosts Ghana. 
The Cranes created few opportunities of note and struggled to get behind the Black Stars, who appeared happy to defend their lead and take the sting from the match.
Ghana were far more positive in the first half, with Andrew Ayew and his brother Jordan, along with Atsu, posing a huge problem for the Uganda defence.
Andre Ayew should have scored from a grea…

Public nominations for the 2017 Ghana DJ Awards, which is the 5th edition, is open to all hard working disc jockeys ‘DJs’ and the general public from Tuesday, January 10 till January 30.

The theme for this year’s awards is “United By Music.” The award will honour and celebrate well-deserving DJs in Ghana and across the world who promote Ghana music.

The nominees must have remarkably entertained people and played a major role in music promotion in the year under review.

The annual Ghana DJ Awards has gradually grown to become the country’s yardstick to recognizing and awarding exceptional DJs since 2012.

Ebenezer Boakye-Yiadom, Events Coordinator of Ghana DJ Awards 2017, said in an interview that, the awards scheme will also recognise non Ghanaian DJs who have massively promoted Ghanaian music to foreign audiences. “Everywhere you go, there are DJs feeding a lot of people with good music on radio, at parties or special events and this scheme was designed to highlight and recogni…

Steve Harvey has apologized for an offensive joke he made about Asian men last week.
“Wanted to share this today,” Harvey tweeted on Tuesday, along with a screenshot of the Notes app where he had written a short apology: “I offer my humblest apology for offending anyone, particularly those in the Asian community, last week. It was not my intention and the humor was not meant with any malice or disrespect whatsoever.”

Wanted to share this today. pic.twitter.com/mpKGBZic5k — Steve Harvey (@IAmSteveHarvey) January 17, 2017Flipping through dating books on the Jan. 6 episode of his talk show, Harvey joked that How to Date White Women: A Practical Guide for Asian Men would just be one page. The comment drew much criticism, including from Fresh Off the Boat creator Eddie Huang.
Harvey released his statement about his meeting with Trump last week in a similar fashion.

The gunman suspected of killing 39 people during a New Year’s attack on an Istanbul nightclub has been caught in a police operation, Turkish media reports on Tuesday.

Hundreds of people had gathered at the swanky Reina nightclub to celebrate the New Year when the gunman shot a police officer and a civilian outside the club, then stormed the premises. Most of the dead in the attack were foreign nationals, from the Middle East.
According to Turkish media, the suspect identified as Abdulkadir Masharipov, an Uzbekistan national was captured in a special operations police raid on a house in Istanbul’s Esenyurt district, private NTV television reported, adding that he had been staying in the house belonging to a friend from Kyrgyzstan.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the nightclub massacre, saying the attack in the first hours of Jan. 1 was in reprisal for Turkish military operations in northern Syria. The man identified as the suspect had been on the run s…

A Kenyan MP has asked women to withhold sex from their husbands until they register as voters for the 8 August elections. 
Mishi Mboko, the women's representative for the coastal city of Mombasa, says it was the best strategy to shore up opposition votes. 
"Women, this is the strategy you should adopt. It is the best. Deny them sex until they show you their voter's card," she said.
The registrations ends on 17 February. 
Ms Mboko said sex was a powerful weapon and would encourage reluctant men to rush to register as voters in the exercise that began on Monday.
A Kenyan MP has asked women to withhold sex from their husbands until they register as voters for the 8 August elections. 
Mishi Mboko, the women's representative for the coastal city of Mombasa, says it was the best strategy to shore up opposition votes. 
"Women, this is the strategy you should adopt. It is the best. Deny them sex until they show you their voter's card," she said.
The registrat…

His Majesty King Mohammed VI, of the Kingdom of Morocco, will from Wednesday, January 18, 2017, begin an official visit to Ghana.
The visit is aimed at deepening the existing, cordial relations between Ghana and Morocco, as well present an opportunity to define new areas of cooperation that would serve the mutual interests of the two countries.
On Friday, January 20, President Akufo-Addo will hold bilateral talks with King Mohammed VI, before hosting him to an official lunch at the Presidency.
King Mohammed VI will thereafter depart for Morocco.

For someone so intimately familiar with Twitter, Donald Trump made a major faux pas on Monday night when instead of tagging his daughter, @IvankaTrump, in a post, he tagged @Ivanka, an English woman whose mentions are about to get very interesting.
In his first message of the night, Trump, who hates CNN so much he watches it every day and knows what programs the network is airing, tweeted that CNN was doing a "special report on my daughter, Ivanka. Considering it is CNN, can't imagine it will be great!" He followed it with a modified retweet from a Twitter user named @drgoodspine, which tagged Trump and his non-daughter, @Ivanka.
"@drgoodspine: @realDonaldTrump@Ivanka Trump is great, a woman with real character and class." — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 17, 2017In his original tweet, @drgoodspine said "@Ivanka Trump is Great a woman with real character and class." Trump changed one of two errors in this message — the king of the ca…

A Kenyan man is currently nursing multiple injuries after he was caught sleeping with his friend’s wife. The man identified as Chuor Nyar Alego from Kisumu, was on Saturday caught in the act after refusing to go on a drink date with his friend saying that he had a motor bike accident.
His friend went to the bar and was informed by a neighbor that an unknown man had just entered his house.

The angry friend took some of his other friends with him home to find Alego in his bedroom busy with his wife. An unlucky Chuor was pounced on and inflicted with head and nose injuries.

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Here are ten facts about the mother of the reigning Asantehene that you may not have known:
1. She was born in 1905, thus 4 years after the War of the Golden Stool in 1900 which was led by the Ejisuhemaa Nana Yaa Asantewaa and lived to be 111years .
2. She was named Afia Kobi at birth after the former Asante Queenmother Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem I, and then again chose the stool name Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II when she ascended the throne in 1977.
3. Her father was Kwadwo Afodo) from Kwabre Achiase; who was also the son of former Asantehene Mensah Bonsu.
4. She was a trader who dealt in traditional cloth at the central market before she became the  queen.
5. She got married twice, the first to Opanyin Kofi Fofie with whom she had 3 children; two females and one male. The children were: Nana Konadu(Alive), Nana Ama Serwaa(Dead), and Nana Poku(Dead).
6. Her second marriage was to Nana Boakye Dankwa of Kantinkyire, with whom she had two children; Barima Prempeh(Dead) and Barima Kwaku Dua…

A 2014 letter addressed to Barack Obama from the man accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks has arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., a White House source said Monday.
There was no immediate word on whether the president had read the letter and what, if any, reaction he had to it.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 51, is at Guantanamo awaiting a death-penalty trial as the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, at the Pentagon and in a Pennsylvania field. He wrote to Obama in 2014 about "Muslim oppression at the hands of the West in general and the United States in particular," his lawyer David Nevin said then. He also shares his views on what happened in Iraq during the period of U.S. sanctions and "events in Palestine and Gaza over the years."
But the prison declined to deliver it. Then on Jan. 6 Mohammed's judge, Army Col. James L. Pohl, ordered prosecutors to get it to the departing president at …

Investigations by Starr News has uncovered an unapproved facility in the Eastern region being used as an abortion clinic by a fake doctor.
The quack abortion doctor, known as David, has been operating at the facility for several years.
Several young ladies in Suhum and its environs have been patronizing the unprofessional services of the quack abortion doctor due to several reasons including low fee charge, endangering their lives.
Starr News’ Eastern regional Correspondent Kojo Ansah, who has been investigating the operations of the “abortion Doctor” reports that, several young ladies between the ages of 14 and 30 mostly visit the facility to access the fake doctor’s services.
The facility is made up of two small rooms built with mud. Inside the rooms are small size beds, some cooking utensils, rags and other dirty materials. Also found in the room were abortion equipment and tools used by the “Doctor”.
The facility located at a new site in the Suhum municipality, is close to a …

Moving vans were seen on Monday outside the $4.3 million Washington DC home that President Obama and his family will be moving into after they leave the White House officially on Friday, Jan 20th, 2017. The Obamas will be taking up residence in this 8,200-square-foot-home above, which they have leased in DC. 
The home is where they have decided to stay for two more years to enable the younger daughter, 15 year old Sasha Obama, finish high school.
 The home which was built in 1928 and features nine bedrooms and eight-and-a-half baths. It also features separate dressing rooms, his and hers bathrooms, entertaining space, and a tranquil garden.
The Obamas are reportedly leasing the home from Joe Lockhart, who served as press secretary to Bill Clinton, and his wife Giovanna Gray, an editor for Glamour magazine.
President Obama and his family will be jetting out of Washington DC immediately after Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday and heading to straight to Palm Springs, Calif…

Shopping might be easier thanks to the internet, but so is getting duped by counterfeiters. 
Chinese online shopping giant Alibaba announced Monday that it has formed a coalition that will leverage the power of big data to crack down on purveyors of fake goods, whose value in 2015 exceeded $1.7 trillion, according to the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition.
U.S. companies suffer most at the hand of brand pirates, with one in five knock-offs infringing on American products, and 63% of counterfeit goods come from China, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
The mission of the Alibaba Big Data Anti-Counterfeiting Alliance, whose 20 members include luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton and Swarovski, is to pool information, data and expertise in intellectual property authentication with the ultimate goal of "helping block, screen and take down infringing listings," according to a statement from Alibaba.

“The most powerful weapon aga…