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Ghanaian victims urged to speak out after sex-for-grades investigation

The University of Ghana is looking into the allegations against staff in a BBC investigation, which found teachers harassing would-be students. The “Sex for Grades” documentary showed university lecturers at both the University of Ghana and the University of Lagos propositioning female reporters who were posing as students. Ghanaian activist …

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Man’s life on hold after discovering he is married to his mom

Four years ago Sandile Mkhize found out he was married to his mother, and his life has been on hold ever since. The 38-year-old from Adams Mission, near Durban, was gearing up to get married when the Department of Home Affairs told him he couldn’t because he was already legally …

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Poor evidence cannabis improves mental health – study

People with psychiatric disorders may want to pass on the joint — at least until further research is done, a new Australian study suggests. The paper, published Monday in The Lancet Psychiatry, looked at 83 previous studies conducted over almost four decades on medical cannabinoids, including products from the cannabis …

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Islamic State group chief Baghdadi buried at sea by US military

US officials said Monday that the body of Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was buried at sea as fresh details surfaced about the US special forces operation that led to his death over the weekend. Syrian Kurds claimed to be a key source of the intelligence that led …

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Origin of modern humans ‘traced to Botswana’

Scientists say they’ve pinpointed the homeland of all humans alive today to a region south of the Zambesi River. The area is now dominated by salt pans, but was once home to an enormous lake, which may have been our ancestral heartland 200,000 years ago. Our ancestors settled for 70,000 …

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I’m on a rescue mission – Mahama

Former President John Dramani Mahama has told party members that he is on a mission to rescue Ghana from the abysmal performance of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. According to the former President, Ghanaians are “disillusioned” under the direction of the Akufo-Addo led government. “I think that Ghanaians are more …

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Church usher kills wife, stabs her 92 times

Residents of Shiabu Night Market, a community within Ablekuma West Municipality in the Greater Accra Region, have been thrown into a state of shock and dismay after their neighbour, a man believed to be in his late 30s, an usher of the Assembly of God Church, Mamprobi branch, allegedly murdered …

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Man, 48, in police grip over wife’s murder

A man is in the grip of the police for allegedly stabbing his wife to death in the presence of his children at Dansoman Shiabu in Accra. The suspect, Prince Korley Commodore, 48, was married to his wife, Dorcas Anafi Commodore, 37, for nine years. Their children, both girls, aged …

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Ei, so, there are 50,000 galamseyers in Ghana? Anokwale mpo!

K1 — KOO, Have you heard? K2 — You’re no doubt talking about the PBS nonsense? — Koo, it isn’t “nonsense”! It was a typical ‘free market’ scam that inevitably got unravelled… — How do you mean? — Who constituted PBS? Had you ever heard of any industrialist/trader/entrepreneur/body corporate mentioned …

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Ghanaian musicians are jokers – Atumpan

Frank Elinam Cobbinah, commonly known by his stage name, Atumpan a Ghanaian afrobeats and dancehall singer has described Ghanaian musicians as a bunch of jokers. He disclosed to DJ Nyaami of SVTV Africa in an interview monitored by MyNewsGh.com that Ghanaian musicians are short-sighted and fail to see the long-term …

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