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It was a special day for Lawanda Flennoy. For 25 years, she worked full-time to raise her three daughters, so finally earning an associate degree this month was especially sweet. 
But the best part is that her children are graduating from school too -- all at the same time.Her daughter Jade says this is a "happy coincidence," but Lawanda says "not so much for me -- it's expensive for me."
Amari just graduated cum laude from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is heading off to a job with Ford.

The Cinéfondation and Short Films Jury headed by Cristian Mungiu and including Clotilde Hesme, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Barry Jenkins and Eric Khoo, has awarded the 2017 Cinéfondation Prizes during a ceremony held in the Buñuel Theatre, followed by the screening of the winning films.

In the wake of the suicide bombing on Monday that killed 22 people following her concert in England, a devastated Ariana Grande tweeted that she was "broken" and "so sorry" for the tragedy.
A father of three girls and a self-professed Grande fan from Georgia has responded with a heartfelt and uplifting open letter to the 23-year-old pop star, saying she doesn't have "a dadgum thing to apologize for."

The First Lady of the United States who is accompanying her husband, President Donald Trump on his first official oversees trip made a big fashion statement as she stepped out in Sicily wearing a Dolce & Gabanna $51, 500 jacket which she paired with a $1630 purse from the same designer...

This birth announcement won't fit on your standard 5x7 greeting card. Adeboye and Ajibola Taiwo had tried for 17 years to start a family. Now, they're the parents of sextuplets -- three boys and three girls, all in good condition and absolutely adorable. 
The babies were delivered by cesarean section at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond last week.

Africa's population is 1.2 billion and its extirpated to grow to 2.5 billion by 2050. The average age is 19.5 years. Ivory Coast, Tanzania, Senegal, Rwanda and Kenya have a growth rate ranging from 6 to 8.5%.
Africa is the world's second fastest growing economy after east Asia Tourism And GDP. Tourism accounted for 7.8% of Africa's GDP ($165 billion in 2016).

The son of Angola's President Jose dos Santos has been filmed at an auction buying a 500,000 watch. 
The auctioneer was the US actor Will Smith and you can hear him saying (at 44 seconds) "he looks way too young to have 500,000 euros" as Danilo dos Santos gets to the stage.

British Ghanaian media entrepreneur Peace Hyde has been named in the top 100 UN list of “Most Influential Persons of African Descent” 2017.
The Forbes Africa correspondent joins the likes of Lewis Hamilton, Trevor Noah, Oprah Winfrey and TD Jakes at the inaugural event in New York at the United Nations in September 2017.

Hyde is joining the list of change makers worldwide due to her phenomenal work as a media entrepreneur as well as her philanthropic work dubbed Aim Higher Africa, which has impacted the lives of some 2000 people over the past three years.

Cohabiting couples in Burundi have until the end of the year to get married or face legal consequences.
The government order comes after President Pierre Nkurunziza launched a campaign "to moralise society".
A government spokesman said a crackdown on informal relationships was needed to combat a population explosion.
He said too many schoolgirls were getting pregnant and men were taking advantage of women by cohabiting with several simultaneously.

At least 28 Coptic Christians have been killed and dozens more wounded by armed men who attacked them while they were travelling to a monastery in Egypt's Minya province.
The Christians were headed on Friday to the Saint Samuel Monastery, located outside Minya city, about 220km south of the capital Cairo, when the masked attackers, who came in three pickup trucks, opened fire of them before fleeing the scene.

This is the complete list f the 22 people that lost their lives in the terror attack in Manchester.  The  list includes an eight-year-old girl, teenagers, parents who had gone to pick-up their children, and an off-duty police officer...

Legendary Nigerian actor, Pete Edochie is billed to speak at the maiden edition of former President Jerry John Rawlings' Revolutionary Lecture Series on June 2 in Accra, a statement issued by the former President's office has said.
Edochie, a former broadcaster will address the theme; "Restoring the values of Probity, Accountability, and Truth in Contemporary Governance" as part Lecture Series slated for 2pm at the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons Conference Hall, off the Independence Avenue at Ridge in Accra.

A little girl is full of questions about American politics and she bombarded her mother with them. In an adorable series of Instagram videos that her mother posted online, Taylor asked her mother questions about where Obama went, why he had to leave, and so many others.

She looked really curious and her facial expression as she asked those questions is another thing that got people to love the video.

Naija superstar, David Adedeji Adeleke, better known by his stage name Davido is in Ghana ahead of Saturday’s Ghana Meets Naija concert.

The musician whose ‘If’ is enjoying massive airplay in Ghana touched down at the Kotoka International Airport Friday morning at 7:30.

Davido was ushered into the car of young Ghanaian rich guy whose name is only known as Ibrah.

Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and one of his senior advisers, has come under FBI scrutiny in the Russia investigation, multiple U.S. officials told NBC News.
Investigators believe Kushner has significant information relevant to their inquiry, officials said. That does not mean they suspect him of a crime or intend to charge him.

Five Kenyan policemen have been killed after their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in the north-eastern town of Liboi, near the border with Somalia. 
The attack happened almost at the exact spot where four officers were killed in a similar attack yesterday, which has been claimed by al-Shabab militants. 
Five other officers were killed in a separate bombing incident on Monday in neighbouring Mandera county.
Al-Shabab has staged numerous attacks in Kenya in recent years.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has stated unequivocally that he will not shield any public official found to be engaged in acts of corruption or malfeasance, but will ensure that the laws of the land are applied fully, without fear or favour.
According to  Akufo-Addo, the recent news of the arrest of some Customs officials responsible for the loss of some GH¢1.2 billion in revenue to the state is part of the efforts his government is making to block revenue leakages at the country’s ports.

So far, 2017 is shaping up to be Paris Jackson's year, but not everyone seems to know her face just yet. On May 25, she was even mistaken for a vagrant!
She wrote about the strange encounter on Twitter shortly after it occurred.
"One of the first people on set, sitting in the parking lot and this dude comes up to me and says homeless people aren't allowed in this area," she said.

Nigerian based silky songstress known in showbiz circles as Tiwa Savage has arrived in Ghana ahead of the 2017 Ghana Meet Naija.

Tiwa, arrived at the Kotoka International Airport at 5:45pm were CEO of EIB Network, popularly known as Bola Ray welcomed the Mavis member.M.anifest also arrived same time with Tiwa Savage.

The former Bank of Ghana (BoG) Governor, Alex Ashiagbor, who served from 1977 to 1982 has died, a family member has confirmed to Joy News.

According to the source, he passed on last Friday at the Korle-bu Teaching Hospital in Accra after a short illness.

Mr. Ashiagbor was born in Ghana in December 1931 and held a BSc. Degree in Economics from the London School of Economics, University of London.

Singer Selena Gomez, who has a net worth of $50 million, has purchased a new three-bedroom, 3,188sqft home in LA's Studio City for $2.25 million. The home which was built in the early 1950s but has been completely refurbished, has attractive vaulted ceilings, walk-in wardrobes, an office-cum-music room, sizeable swimming pool, garden with fruit trees and vegetable beds and more.

Thirty-one middle-level management officials of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) have been reassigned from their duty posts across the country.
This is the second major shake-up under the watch of new Comptroller of GIS, Kwame Asuah Takyi, who took office in March this year.