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HILLARY ESSIEN

Hillary Essien is a reporter with Peoples Gazette focusing on special reports and critical national news. She is a lawyer with 2 years of writing and reporting. Prior to working with The Gazette, Hillary served as an administrative assistant at a non-profit organisation focused on food security for children of low income households.She is on Twitter @Hillary_essien
January 5, 2022

Ghana joins United Nations Security Council

Over 50 of the 193 UN member states have never been elected non-permanent members of the security council.

Ghana flag/United Nations Security Council
January 4, 2022

Apple becomes first publicly-traded company to hit $3 trillion

The maker of the iPhone had its shares hit an all-time high of $182.88, exceeding the $182.85 share price needed to be worth $3 trillion.

Apple
January 3, 2022

Portugal’s Impresa media outlets attacked by hackers

The hackers, Lapsus$, are claiming responsibility and are threatening to leak internal data if the media group fails to pay a ransom.

January 3, 2022

Nigerian police misplace 178,459 AK-47, assorted rifles, pistols, trial of senior officers recommended

The report recommended the prosecution of some police officers by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

Police Inspector General Usman Alkali/weapons
January 3, 2022

Nationwide Protest: Sudan’s prime minister resigns over power-sharing deal with military

He had succeeded in banning female genital mutilation and helping to get Sudan removed from a United States list of state sponsors of terrorism.

Sudan PM Abdalla Hamdok
January 1, 2022

South Africans pay last respects at Desmond Tutu funeral

South Africans have been paying their last respects at St George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, where late Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s body has been lying in state.

Mourners arriving Desmond Tutu's funeral
January 1, 2022

Nigeria in 2022: Experts give predictions on VAT, elections, economy, civil and separatist agitations

The forecasts are grim, with protests, secessionist agitations and more value added tax controversies expected ahead of the 2023 elections.

Ayuba Wabba, Nnamdi Kanu, Sunday Igboho, Muhammad Nami
December 31, 2021

Iconic American actress Betty White dies at 99

Betty White had the longest running career for any woman in TV, starring in shows over the past eight decades, dating as far back as 1939.

December 31, 2021

Azerbaijan bans journalists from publishing information from unofficial sources, rights groups

The Eurasian country is ranked ‘Not Free’, according to a Freedom House, ranking 79 out of 100 in the body’s annual Freedom of the Press survey.

Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev
December 31, 2021

Taliban forbids trimming, shaving of beards, says it’s un-Islamic

This decree is contained in a copy of the instructions signed by the extremist minister Sheikh Muhammad Khalid Haqqani.