The Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service has released the editor-in-chief of Whatup News on bail but denied arresting him at gunpoint. A statement signed by DSP Juliana Obeng, Head, Public Affairs, CID, said the investigative arm of the police service, “on Thursday, 1 April 2021, arrested …
Read More »Collapsing gold pit kills 14-year-old boy at Manso-Tontokrom
A 14-year-old boy has died at Komkom near Manso-Tontokrom, a farming community in the Amansie West District after an abandoned gold pit collapsed on him last night. The deceased, Amadu Hamba, was mining in the restricted area when the dugout sand came crashing down, a police report sighted by dailymailgh.com …
Read More »Lifeless body found in Densu river in Nsawam
A dead body has been found in the Densu River at Nsawam in the Eastern Region. The body of the unidentified man wearing a dress was found Thursday by passersby. It is not clear what caused the death. Police were yet to retrieve the dead body. The resident was upset …
Read More »4 UN peacekeepers killed in northern Mali
Four United Nations peacekeepers were killed in an attack by jihadists on their camp in Aguelhok in northern Mali, the U.N. mission in Mali said Friday. The U.N. mission said that helicopters were dispatched to the scene to evacuate the wounded from the camp, which houses mostly Chadian peacekeepers. The …
Read More »AU calls for urgent action after Mozambique jihadist attack
The African Union on Thursday called for urgent and coordinated international action after a jihadist attack that killed dozens and uprooted thousands on the northern Mozambican coastal town of Palma. The jihadists captured Palma on March 24, ransacking buildings and beheading residents and forcing thousands to seek safety in the …
Read More »How weak accountability system costing Ghana billions
Co-founder of the Center for Democratic Development, Professor Baffour Agyeman-Duah has indicated that Ghana’s history of poor accountability and incessant borrowing is responsible for its current and future economic woes. Recounting what he called a “very progressive movement” in debt accumulation, Prof Agyeman-Duah, traced a steady increase in Ghana’s national …
Read More »MUSIGA abandoned me when I was sick – Kunta Kinte alleges
Kunta Kinta of Bradez Music fame has lamented that the Musicians Union Of Ghana (MUSIGA), of which he is a member, never paid him a visit or contributed a penny while he was sick. Talking to Tony Best on Akoma FM’s Kwantenpon Drive on Thursday, April 1, Kunta Kinta, born …
Read More »LIVE UPDATES: 2021 VGMAs nominee list announcement
Hello and welcome to our comprehensive-text coverage of the 22nd Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMAs) nomination announcement. On January 19, 2021, a call was made to artistes, music producers, beatmakers, instrumentalists, and stakeholders to submit their works which fall within the VGMAs calendar year – January 1 to December 31, …
Read More »Let’s abide by the Covid-19 Safety Protocols during the Easter Celebrations – Hon Francis Addai Nimoh
On this occasion of Easter festivities, I would like to extend warm wishes to all Christians in Ghana. It is my fervent prayer that the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ would cleanse us from all our iniquities and sins, and usher us into a …
Read More »PHOTOS: 90-year-old deathtrap Huhunya Presby Basic School in distress
The Presby Basic School at Huhunya, a farming community, in the Yilo Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region, has over the past years been using a deathtrap school building facility that poses danger to both teachers and pupils of the school. The dilapidated basic school, built with laterite which serves …
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