United Cuts Overbooking, Hikes Compensation After Passenger Fiasco

United Airlines on Thursday announced it will offer bumped passengers up to $10,000 in compensation and reduce overbooking following the dragging incident on board one of its flights that caused worldwide outrage. Those and other changes, which the airline called “substantial,” are the result of a two-week internal probe of the April 9 incident, video … Read more

Cop Holds Hotel Guests Hostage

Staff and guests of the Accra City Hotel (formerly Novotel) were last Tuesday night reportedly held captive by a lone policeman who seized the facility. Threatening to shoot anybody who dared to call his bluff, he was able to seize the hotel for over three hours, different police personnel failing to disarm him when they … Read more

Cop Takes Hotel Guests and Staff Hostage

Staff and guests of the Accra City Hotel (formerly Novotel) were last Tuesday night reportedly held captive by a lone policeman who seized the facility. Threatening to shoot anybody who dared to call his bluff, he was able to seize the hotel for over three hours, different police personnel failing to disarm him when they … Read more