The Australian has obtained confidential internal documents from Facebook that supposedly show how it’s possible for the company to take advantage of teenagers’ insecurities to benefit advertisers. The leaked document was written by two Australian Facebook execs and included how monitoring users’ posts, comments and interactions could help figure out when people felt “defeated”, “overwhelmed”, ...

A police officer has been charged with murder after shooting a teenager who was a passenger in a car as it drove away from a house party in Dallas. Roy Oliver opened fire on the vehicle, killing Jordan Edwards, 15, with a single bullet in the head on Saturday. Police initially said the car reversed ...

Manchester United’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic has entered the list of the richest sportsmen in the UK in second spot, behind 2016 leader Lewis Hamilton. The Swedish striker is included in the list of top-earning athletes in Britain after joining United last July. With a fortune of £110m, he overtakes team-mate Wayne Rooney, who is third on ...

A Deputy Minister of  Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has reminded that Right to Information Bill, when passed, will benefit the general public and is not focused on press freedom. He noted that the law will seek to provide members of the public with information to empower them towards improved participation in the democratic process. “Freedom ...

Former President John Mahama is offending Ghanaians when he suggests they were only swayed by the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) overly ambitious agenda for change, according to a Deputy Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah. In an Eyewitness News interview, Mr. Oppong Nkrumah asserted that, Ghanaians were well aware of the change they desired, when they ...

Some youth of Anlo have warned that the nomination of Seth Yormevu as the Municipal Chief Executive of Keta, will rekindle the Anlo Chieftaincy dispute. Subject to the approval of members of the Keta municipal assembly, President Akufo-Addo nominated Seth Yormevu to represent him at the highest office of the assembly, but the youth say his ...

The dirty linen of the New Patriotic Party in the Northern Region appears to have been flown high in the open by the Minister for Gender, Women and Children Affairs, Otiko Djaba, as she launched a scathing attack on the Party’s Northern Regional Chairman, Daniel Bugri Naabu with a slew of allegations. The Gender Minister ostensibly ...

Rwanda has been ranked as the country with the best performing institutions in Africa. The East African country is followed by Mauritius and Botswana, which have also been named in the list of 32 African countries assessed for the performance of their institutions. Ghana came 12th on the table in spite of a marginal improvement ...

The Africa Competitiveness Report 2017, released by the World Economic Forum on Thursday, has identified corruption and lack of access to funding as major problematic factors for doing business in Africa for the 5th consecutive year. The report also noted that, high tax rates and inefficient government bureaucracy, were among the top problems associated with ...