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UvA suggests “fake PhD” holder Sebastian Osumanu gets mental health checked as they squash his…
Sebastian had maintained his claims about winning 5 PhD awards despite extensive investigations proving that false There have been interesting twists in the curious story of Sebastian Roy Osumanu as juxtaposed against that of the University of Amsterdam on the issue of the supposed 5 PhD awards won by the Ghanaian student during his graduation ceremony. […]
How one Ghanaian used Photoshop to create fake PhD awards and fooled almost everyone
“Fraudster” Sebastian Osumanu’s supposed PhD awards are fake
6 crucial questions to understanding Kenya”s General Election and why everyone is on the edge
…or why Uhuru vs Odinga is at an all time high On Tuesday, 8th August, there will be a general elections in Kenya. Some 19 million Kenyans are expected to go to the polls to elect their next president, alongside their deputies, senators, governors and representatives of local assemblies. Ten years after the post-election violence of […]
China moves to block VPN access, a service used by millions including Africans to connect to social…
An African man uses a laptop (AFP / BBC.co.uk) A report by Bloomberg says the government has given a deadline of February 2018 to telecommunications carriers in the country to block access to virtual private networks (VPN). The new directive will block global access to free internet in the country. China has one of the […]
New WhatsApp feature will let you recall that embarrassing message you regretted sending
The Facebook-owned messaging platform will giving users the chance to recall messages after they have been sent out. Several online publications have alluded that the feature, which has been dubbed “Recall”, should be available for devices in the coming weeks. In it’s current state, WhatsApp only lets users delete messages on the device level and […]
In Africa, drones are in the business of precision farming
In its characteristic buzz, the drone starts up its four propellers and takes off. In seconds, it is above the terrain and has already filmed several hectares of pineapple fields and returns to land in the middle of a small compact crowd. The scene is from early October 2016 in a suburb of Accra, Ghana, an […]
“Smart” Ghanaian drivers find cunning ways to shortchange Uber on its 25% charge
Uber won’t budge on charging drivers 25% on all trips, so the drivers found ways to pay Uber less Uber may be facing a litany of legal (and moral) issues outside Ghana, but the non-transportation company is about to face a new slew of issues in the West African country. The technology has been in Ghana […]
Google wants to keep winning Africa with Android Go, here are 6 reasons why it can
The Google I/O event is always an interesting one for me. I am more than just a Google/Android fanatic, I hate Apple OS with a great passion and my friend and colleague, Kwame Boakye, will testify to how much I preach Android over iOS. So yeah, the Google I/O is always a thing to look forward […]
The legacy of the goat in the mind of the Ghanaian
…of dead goats, goat serums as cure for HIV and goats as bribes I was doing research for a piece about how goats are very much embedded into the Ghanaian culture and the fiber of Ghanamanism. The Dead Goat Theory / Black Narrator My research led me to very deep parts of Ghanaian blogosphere where I came […]