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Following the ban on the usage, manufacture, or importation of plastic bags in Kenya, which according to a  new rule  has taken effect this week states that offenders will be fined as much as $38,000, or serve up to four years in jail. Visitors or Citizens coming into Kenya with plastic bags will have to leave them at the airport or the borders. Kenyan's have began adjusting to life without plastic bags starting from traders in Nairobi who have swapped the cheap lightweight plastic bags with cartons, paper bags, and envelopes to the grocery stores who are now selling reusable fiber bags and cardboard boxes. SEE ALSO:  KENYAN SELF KIDNAP: Teacher Who Demanded Ksh 500,000 was in Mombasa with another man Kenya’s ban on plastic bags is  the world’s harshest . Punishment for carrying, manufacturing, or importing plastic bags ranges from about $19,000 to as much as $38,000 or a jail term of up to four years.  Exemptions are trash bin liners, plastic bags for disposing medi

Wisa Wisa Greid who is currently facing trial for allegedly exposing his penis while performing at the Accra International Conference Centre on December 24, last year has declared that the Court is wasting his time with continuous adjournments. He was charged with gross indecent exposure in which he pleaded not guilty and was bailed with GH 8,000 with one surety. READ ALSO:  GHANA: Whatsapp Hacker Busted! The court had earlier today adjourned the case to September 27, 2017 because the presiding Judge was on leave and as such not available but the visibly angry Wisa stormed out of the court and yelled ‘they are wasting my time’. Lawyers of Wisa have began preparing to file submission of no case at the Accra Circuit Court because of the duration of this case that is almost two years at the court. Counsel for Wisa, Jerry Avenogbor spoke in an exclusive interview with journalists re vealing that their intended move is based on the inability of the prosecution to provide eviden

South African Parliament The programming committee has been informed that Parliament will debate the DA's motion to dissolve the National Assembly on Tuesday, September 5 2017. The Democratic Alliance has made a statement clarifying that recent events has shown that its time to hold early elections, as a record number of MPs, including those from the African National Congress, voted to remove President Jacob Zuma in the failed motion of no confidence on August 8,  "The reality is that South Africa cannot afford another two years of ANC governance," DA chief whip John Steenhuisen declared immediately after the historical meeting. "With over half of South Africans living in abject poverty, 9.3 million of our people without work and our economy showing no signs of being able to recover from the recession, we need a new beginning." He also confirmed that the drafters of the Constitution included a provision to allow for early elections for this c

The South African female cop busted in Brazil for drug smuggling resides in a modest backyard room in Kensington, Johannesburg. Angela Maluleke, 33, was arrested at São Paulo International Airport, allegedly in possession of six bricks of cocaine. When Sowetan visited her back room yesterday, her silver Mazda 2 was still parked outside where she had left it. Her landlord George João described Maluleke, who has a seven-year-old daughter and a year old baby, as a "friendly person whose boyfriend only visited her once". João said he was excited when she moved in to rent his backyard room in March because he believed that having a police officer at his house would deter criminals and was charging her R1500 a month to rent a room, and this amount included electricity and water. João also reported that Maluleke had not acted suspiciously and he had never seen her in the company of "dubious" people."The only people who visited her are her mother, sister

  A South African university commences investigation on  14 million rand ($1m; £770,000) loan divert to one of her students in error. The university became aware of the incident when a snapshot of the student's account balance went viral. A Walter Sisulu University (WSU) spokesperson accused the student of spending some of the money on a "lavish lifestyle",  Times Live reports . The student, who is yet to be officially named, declared that  she had reported the incident to the appropriate authorities when she noticed the loan. SEE ALSO:  SOUTH AFRICA: White Farmers Convicted In The Coffin Case She has also been quoted as saying that she has returned the money. But the university insists that the student will be "liable for every cent",  News24  quotes spokesperson Yonela Tukwayo as saying. South African students usually receive loans, to cover textbooks, accommodation and food, through the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSF

Several lies have come to our notice due to frustration and fear. The handlers of this dying contraption called Nigeria, a gift parceled in 1914 and given to the North, are sick and tired of the progress of the IPOB under the formidable and able leadership of Director Nnamdi Kanu. Out of exasperation and fatalism, the clueless handlers of the misnomer called Nigeria have resorted to spinning lies and concocting stories in their bid to stem the tide of feasible and imminent SECESSION vide non-violent REFERENDUM. Worried by the ever towering stature and popularity of the arrowhead of the reinvigorated and fantastically refined quest for emancipation of Biafrans from the venomous grips of oppressive and abductive Nigeria, Nnamdi Kanu, the northernised Nigeria have begun a last-minute attempt to circumvent and, possibly, escape the inevitable. To this end, BMC (Buhari's media) and other hirelings have been commissioned to see to it that the image of the man-god and superman, Nn

Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Members Over 30 - 32 million Biafrans and Supporters have so far shown support for the Nnamdi Kanu led peaceful protest for the Independent State of Biafra through referendum using the platform of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) This was determined using the various, rally's, protests and compliance orders issued by the Leaders of the platform. Brief Biography Nwannekaenyi "Nnamdi" Kenny Okwu Kanu  (born September 1967) is a British-Nigerian .   political activist . He is a leading member of one of several Biafran  separatist organizations , the  Indigenous People of Biafra  (IPOB), and the director of a  London -based radio station  Radio Biafra .  Kanu was arrested on treason charges in  Lagos  on 14 October, 2015 and was detained in a Nigerian jail without trial for more than a year-and-a-half, despite various court orders that ruled for his release. When in court, Kanu appeared regularly wearing a Jewish pray

At least 14 people are dead while 42 others are injured following a collision between a bus and a pick-up truck after plunging from a bridge onto the road below in southern Egypt, officials said. The Health Ministry in a statement declared that the accident took place on a main road linking Beni Suef with the capital, Cairo. The driver of the pick-up truck, which was carrying poultry, told local media that he fell with his vehicle from the bridge but managed to get out of the vehicle quickly, then the bus fell over his vehicle. The driver is currently being treated in a hospital. The bus, which was travelling from Cairo to the Upper Egyptian city of Menya, was carrying 62 passengers. Hospital sources said that some of the injured are in a serious condition. Egypt has one of the worlds highest accident rates owing to careless driving and poor road and vehicle conditions. The World Health Organisation (WHO) ranks Egypt as the worlds tenth highest accident prone countr

The Cyber Crime Unit of the Criminal investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has apprehended a mobile phone repairer who allegedly hacks into people’s social media accounts and uses the information for nefarious activities. David Sam-Essandoh the suspect allegedly  connected the WhatsApp application of his victims through WhatsApp web to a MacBook Pro laptop and subsequently monitor their conversations for motives yet to be established the police said He was busted when one of his victims suspected that her WhatsApp conversation was not secured and possibly shared and brought her observation to the notice the police. Chief Superintendent Dr Gustav Herbert Yankson informed journalists that Sam-Essandoh was arrested on 15th August, 2017 in Accra. On 10th August, a complaint was received at the Cyber Crime Unit from a victim that she suspected her WhatsApp conversation was being monitored. On receipt of the complaint, Chief Superintendent Yank