Megastar turned pariah Bill Cosby, who goes on trial Monday for allegedly drugging and assaulting a woman in 2004, joins a growing list of famous men charged with a sex crime. Here are five other prominent men whose careers have been shattered or tainted by charges of sexual assault. Former French finance minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn, … Read more
West African schoolgirls, some not yet teenagers, have taken a starring role at an engineering competition in Senegal, busting stereotypes with robotics expertise and innovative projects for their communities. The Pan-African Robotics competition (PARC) in the Senegalese capital Dakar on Saturday reflects the growing consciousness of science education as a top priority for a government … Read more
The National Patriotic Party (NPP) launched its 2016 manifesto in Accra, this Sunday and a team of fact-checkers subjected five claims made by the party’s Vice Presidential candidate, Dr Mahamud Bawumia to scrutiny. It was found that only one of them was entirely true. Two claims were found to be true but misleading, whiles one … Read more
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is disputing some facts presented by Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) at his recent economic lecture dubbed: “The State of the Ghanaian Economy – A Foundation of Concrete or Straw”. According to the Foundation, the acclaimed economist and former deputy Bank … Read more
Gold was discovered, (circa) ca. BC/BCE 6,000 in Egypt (Cramb, Alan W, A Short History of Metals, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University). It was the first and by far the earliest metal discovered and utilised by humans as a result of its excellent reflectivity (throws back almost 100% of light incident … Read more
My earliest experience of the pain of death was as an aspect of some widowhood rites I witnessed a little over half a century ago. I must have been three or four years old, but I still remember it like it was yesterday. It must be the sheer callousness of that spectacle that has imprinted … Read more
The world’s middle class is growing. According to Pew Research Center, 63 million people entered Latin America’s middle class over the last decade; it is estimated that Nigeria’s middle class grew by 600 percent between 2000 and 2014. By 2030, Ernst and Young (EY) expects two thirds of the global middle class to live in … Read more