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The riots broke out late on Monday after police in Greater Noida, a satellite city of New Delhi, released five African students detained over the youth's death, saying they had no evidence against them.

One television station showed an angry mob hitting a car with sticks, while another showed dozens of attackers using steel chairs to hit shoppers in a mall.

Police said 10 people had been wounded, while India's foreign minister said authorities were investigating the attacks.

Source: ALJAZEERA

Ghana can now boast of 2,900 millionaires whose net worth has been estimated to be in dollars after some 200 more Ghanaians joined the list categorised as elite group in 2016.

Out of the number, at least 10 people joined the ranks of those with net wealth more than $10 million, with no addition to the pool of those worth $30 million and above.

This revelation is contained in the latest Wealth Report by Stanbic Bank in collaboration with International Consultancy Group, Knight Frank. It revealed that the financial service sector in the country is the primary source of wealth for most of the "Ghanaian dollar millionaires."

The Editor of the report, Andrew Shirley, told JOY BUSINESS' Editor Emmanuel Agyei, the number of High Net Worth Individuals (HNWI) in Ghana is projected to almost double in the next 10 years.

Read more at myjoyonline.com

Source: myjoyonline.com

 President Uhuru Kenyatta presented his State-of-the-Nation Address for the year 2017.



According to the president, Kenya's public wage bill stands at 627 Billion shillings per year, amounting to 50% of the total revenues collected by the Government.


Can this be true? Is it possible for a country to spend 50% of its total revenue on just 2% of its population?

Read President Kenyatta's full speech

Source: BBC & All Africa

Ghana has witnessed about seven consecutive suicide cases within a period of two weeks, in the first quarter of 2017. These were cases that made the nation's headlines. One certainty is that, the total number of suicide cases will exceed the number mentioned earlier, as some cases haven't been announced on our media platforms. Personally, I know of a house-help who hanged herself at Dodowa after her mistress allegedly found out about her love affair and threatened to send her back to her people.

Suicide has been attributed to so many causes. These include; poverty, unemployment, psychological torture, drug addiction, disappointments and failures. All these causes emanates from the society, not the individual.

We have been confined in the virtual world of the internet, making us lose the physical connection needed to console our souls when we're hurt.

Though not an expert, I know the causes of suicide vary and these causes are influenced by societal actions. Sociology has made us aware that modernization is capable of taking away the social needs of an individual. Our so-called advancement has made us selfish; sticking to our needs and failing to offer affection to those in need. We have been confined in the virtual world of the internet, making us lose the physical connection needed to console our souls when we're hurt. We have been so confined to the extent that trust is now irrelevant to our minds. We would carry our burden and maintain our ego, than share our problems and unload the stress.

This is the time for our society to quit prejudicing. The failures and inabilities of people have been misinterpreted on different occasions. We are living in a world where people's perceptions about how others live their lives is predominant. People are so quick to judge and this trait has made it almost impossible to share one's personal problems, an action which brings relief. Society has been so unforgivable and has forgotten that no human being is perfect. With the existence of this phenomenon, only mind coupled with the fear of stigmatization may influence one to take his life in times of disappointment.

Suicide cannot be completely eliminated, as it has existed since the ancient days, but society can play a vital role in curbing the situation. This is a call on us to less prejudicial and help fulfill the social needs of others. This is a call on us to develop a trustworthy attitude and share our problems wholeheartedly. This is a call on us to remain tough when life gets rough. SEEK HELP NOW! SUICIDE IS NOT AN OPTION!

An international team of scientists has just sequenced a protein crystal located in the midgut of cockroaches. The reason?

It’s more than four times as nutritious as cow’s milk and, the researchers think it could be the key to feeding our growing population in the future.

Although most cockroaches don’t actually produce milk, Diploptera punctate, which is the only known cockroach to give birth to live young, has been shown to pump out a type of ‘milk’ containing protein crystals to feed its babies.

The fact that an insect produces milk is pretty fascinating – but what fascinated researchers is the fact that a single one of these protein crystals contains more than three times the amount of energy found in an equivalent amount of buffalo milk (which is also higher in calories then dairy milk).

Clearly milking a cockroach isn’t the most feasible option, so an international team of scientists headed by researchers from the Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine in India decided to sequence the genes responsible for producing the milk protein crystals to see if they could somehow replicate them in the lab.

Not only is the milk a dense source of calories and nutrients, it’s also time released. As the protein in the milk is digested, the crystal releases more protein at an equivalent rate to continue the digestion.

Now the researchers have the sequence, they are hoping to get yeast to produce the crystal in much larger quantities- making it slightly more efficient (and less gross) than extracting crystals from cockroach’s guts.

The research was published in IUCrJ, the journal of the International Union of Crystallography.

Source: sciencealert.com

The extension of his medical leave was announced in a statement issued on Sunday by Femi Adesina, spokesperson to the president.

According to Mr. Adesina, the president had planned to return to Abuja on Sunday evening but was advised to complete the test cycle before returning. The notice of the extension, he added, has been forwarded to

Senate President Bukola Saraki and House Speaker Yakubu Dogara.

The statement conveyed President Buhari's gratitude to Nigerians for their kind wishes.

Government spokesmen have also condemned rumors alleging that the president had died and advised Nigerians to desist from spreading such falsehoods.

The statement issued by Mr. Adesina was silent on the exact date of the president's return.

Source: Sahara Reporters

A-33-year-old Ghanaian man was shot by undercover police officers on Wednesday afternoon at St George in Hamburg. The reason for the shooting is unclear as the man is still unconscious in the hospital and could not be interrogated.

The state prosecutor said on Thursday that, the condition of the Ghanaian man is not life-threatening though he was rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery.

According to the 46-year-old undercover policeman who shot the man claims, he shot in self-defense because the Ghanaian man was agressive, he first used spray and then shot him in the leg. Some Africans demonstrated against the this action and accused him[police officer] of racism. Reports say, that the German National Criminal Police Office ( NCPO ) as well as the Hamburg police currently conducting an investigation to ascertain the truth.

Meanwhile, the Ghana Union in Hamburg is still trying to identify the victim.

Hamburg has the largest Ghanaian community in Europe.
 (Watch): Ghanaian man shot by police in Hamburg
Source: Dawouda Oumar

 Don’t blame your lack of will power or poor time management skills for your inability to get stuff done. According to psychologist Tim Pychyl, a leading expert on procrastination from Carleton University, the fickle habit goes much, much deeper. At its heart, Pychyl tells Business Insider, procrastination is an emotional issue.

“We could both put something in our schedule, and then we get there and we go ‘Ugh, I don’t feel like it.’ And then we don’t!” he says. “What procrastination is, is that we cope with negative emotions by using avoidance.”

The emotions aren’t always the same. If you’ve made plans to buy a new outfit for a wedding, you might put it off because you don’t want to confront your weight gain. If you’re delaying starting a budget, you might feel ashamed having to face all the money you’ve spent.

Importantly, Pyhchyl says those negative emotions — guilt, shame, embarrassment — are problems for the present self. They’re problems for you right now. And the quickest way to eliminate these emotions is to put off problems for the future you until you can’t put them off any longer.

So you avoid, and you procrastinate. Pychyl calls this a “misregulation” of emotion. When we misregulate our emotions, we try to cope by dealing with them in unproductive ways — in this case, by heaping them onto the shoulders of our distant selves.

“You believe it’s going to make you feel better,” he says. “But it doesn’t. It comes back to bite you on the butt.”
Take a low-stakes form of procrastination: not doing your chores. Most people avoid chores because they’re boring. But even if you know putting them off only makes it worse for future you, you’ll still do it because you’d rather avoid the short-term burden.
“We really think about future self like a stranger,” Pychyl says. He points to research from UCLA that has shown people tend to exhibit similar levels of empathy for strangers as for their future selves.

That’s part of what makes procrastination such an emotional behavior — when you put stuff off, you’re essentially putting one person’s emotions ahead of someone else’s. It just so happens both of those people are you, only at different points in time. Pychyl says people can avoid procrastinating by coming to that realization when they feel compelled to delay. They should ask themselves why they want to procrastinate and confront that impulse, not necessarily the task itself.

“You have to recognize it’s about feeling good in the short term,” he says. “That’s the place you have to start conceptually.”

Only then will you feel truly prepared to tackle the task ahead.

(Courtesy www.weforum.org)