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A Virginia teacher who was shot by a disabled six-year-old pupil texted a loved one an hour before she was wounded to say the boy was armed and school officials were failing to act, a source has revealed.Abbey Zwerner, 25, had just finished reading a story when the child pulled out the handgun and shot her in the chest at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News on January 6.A source close to the investigation told NBC that Zwerner had texted a loved one showing she was ‘frustrated because she was trying to get help with this child, for this child, and…

CNN  —  The campaign of embattled Rep. George Santos on Tuesday filed updated reports with federal regulators that appear to raise fresh questions about the source of the substantial personal loans he said he made to his campaign. The New York Republican, the subject of multiple inquiries into his finances and fabrications about his biography and resume, previously claimed he lent his campaign more than $700,000. But in two of the new filings with the Federal Election Commission, boxes indicating that loans of $500,000 and $125,000 had come from personal funds were unmarked. The Daily Beast first reported on the…

Some key agriculture civil society organisations (CSOs) have condemned delays in granting tax exemptions on imported agrochemicals and inputs.The CSOs – Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG), Chamber of Agribusiness Ghana (CAG), CropLife Ghana and the National Seed Trade Association of Ghana (NASTAG) – said the hold-up could deny millions of Ghanaians access to cheaper food. It also has dire consequences for a sector they said is already fragile due to global price increases in agricultural machinery and inputs.President Nana Akufo-Addo on September 12, 2020 assented to the Tax Exemption Act 2022, Act 1083, which is meant to regulate the…

TECNO has risen the bar not just for what it means to have a premium-tier smartphone combining top-tier display, performance, a unique unibody double-curved design, and AI-infused software features with its latest TECNO PHANTOM X2 series, which certainly brings a fresh perspective to the high-end smartphone market in Ghana, fulfilling the needs of all premium smartphone users. Consumers can purchase the new TECNO PHANTOM X2 at the RRP price of GHS 6,670 to enjoy free 2.5GB of data monthly for the first six months of use and a twelve (12)  months of screen warranty protection. The TECNO PHANTOM X2 possesses…

Nigerian musician and businessman, Oluwatosin Alibade, popularly known as Mr Eazi, has made another smart investment move. He took to his Twitter page to announce his deal with the South African basketball team, Cape Town Tigers. The Empawa boss is now a shareholder in the team. Mr Eazi revealed he was inspired by American rapper, Jay-Z, who has a share in a New York basketball team. READ ALSO: I Was Hurt When Onua FM Replaced Me With My “Trainee” Felicia Osei Without My Notice – AJ Poundz Tells It All The industrious Nigerian musician stated that he is happy to…

Nigerian activist, Deji Adeyanju has opined that the worst thing that can happen to anyone is to be famous and broke. Deji, who stated this in an Instagram post on Tuesday morning, January 24, noted that being a celebrity is not a profession. According to him, that is why many male and female celebrities allegedly turn to prostitution to support their lifestyles. “Celebrity is not a profession. That is why you find both male and female so called celebrities doing prostitution because that is all they can do. The worst thing that can happen to anyone is to be popular…

The route allegedly driven by Bryan Kohberger on the night of the brutal Idaho murders may be a crucial piece of evidence in the state’s case against the 28-year-old suspect who is facing four counts of first degree murder. DailyMail.com recently took the circuitous drive to get a clearer picture of Kohberger’s alleged movements on November 13 – the night he’s accused of murdering students Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin and Xana Kernodle. In the probable cause affidavit, filed on December 29, Corporal Brett Payne laid out how investigators believe the alleged killer traveled the roughly 10 miles from his Pullman, Washington, apartment to the home…

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN  —  The rotation of Earth’s inner core may have paused and it could even go into reverse, new research suggests. The Earth is formed of the crust, the mantle and the inner and outer cores. The solid inner core is situated about 3,200 miles below the Earth’s crust and is separated from the semi-solid mantle by the liquid outer core, which allows the inner core to rotate at a different speed from the rotation of the Earth itself. With…

Ghana has become the second country in Africa after Mozambique to receive payments from a World Bank trust fund for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, commonly known as REDD+. The World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) paid Ghana $4,862,280 for reducing 972,456 tons of carbon emissions for the first monitoring period under the program (June to December 2019).“This payment is the first of four under the country’s Emission Reductions Payment Agreement (ERPA) with the World Bank to demonstrate potential for leveraging results based payments for carbon credits,” said Pierre Laporte, World Bank Country Director for Ghana, Liberia,…

The Ghana Commission for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has expressed worry over taxes imposed on sanitary pads. The Commission said the increase in prices of sanitary pads is affecting enrolments and attendance in the various basic and secondary schools across the country. Prices of the various sanitary pad brands range between GH¢10 and GH¢50 which is way out of budget for many teenagers. Marking International Education Day under the theme “to invest in people, prioritize education,” the Commission appealed to the government to scrap all taxes imposed on sanitary products. The Principal Programme Officer of the…