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(Reuters) – More than 70 people were killed overnight when a fire raged through a run-down, five-storey Johannesburg apartment block, one of the worst such disasters in a city where poverty, household fires and homelessness are widespread. The building was gutted, blackened...

At Howe hamlet in Gwer East Local Government Area of Benue state, alleged hoodlums burned down an orchard farm belonging to former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The incident occurred on Saturday, Jan. 29, when the farm’s manager, Zubello Muhamed, was out of the area for an...

Items worth over GH¢100 million have been destroyed in yet another fire outbreak at the Kumasi Central Market around the Dr Mensah area known as French Line. The fire destroyed 74 shops, containers and stalls and it took personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) more...

Joyce Sarkodie, after eagerly awaiting her husband’s nightly call, never heard the phone ring when he dialed their home in Ghana for the last time. It took two days for Joyce to discover why he never called again: Devoted family man Gabriel Sarkodie, 48, was among the last...