But for the timely intervention of a joint police-military team at Obuasi, a clash between angry artisans and officials of Anglogold Ashanti’s security personnel would have turned bloody. Mining artisans, popularly known as ‘galamseyers’ numbering over fifty, wanted to take over a mining pit abandoned by Anglogold Ashanti at Wawase, …

Commercial sex workers in Tana River County, Kenya, have elected to digitise their business by forming WhatsApp groups led by various veterans in the trade. According to Nairobi News, the sex workers said they were yet to recover from the effects of Covid-19 despite the lifting of regulations by the government, …

Controversial Ghanaian comedienne, Afia Schwarzenegger, has called on a popular Asante deity, ‘Antoa,’ and several others to strike her dead if she has received a GH₵50,000 funeral donation from the Chief of Staff like she earlier claimed. Earlier, Afia Schwarzenegger’s claims of receiving GH₵50,000 from the Chief of Staff and also aiding …

Two pregnant women allegedly engaged in illegal mining also known as galamsey have died in a galamsey pit at Denkyira-Ayanfuri in the Central Region. According to residents, the incident happened on Thursday 17th March 2022 at around 12:30 AM. The names of the two deceased, aged 35 and 25, are …

A few weeks ago, a call was made to all artiste, music producers, beatmakers, and instrumentalists to submit their works released between January 1st and December 31st, 2021. The VGMA board and the research team, have been at work, reviewing over 1000 submissions, to ensure the most qualified make it …

The Kumasi Circuit Court has sentenced 21-year-old Priscilla Appiah to two (2) and half years in prison with hard labour for conspiring with her mother to steal a newborn baby at the Kumasi South Hospital in June 2019. The court last year sentenced her mother, 45-year-old Theresah Asamoah, to six …

A 27-year-old suspected ritualist has taken to his heels after a coffin full of blood was retrieved from his room in Mperhin, a suburb of Offinso in the Offinso South District of the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Kwasi is said to be a known ritualist in the area who demand …

A driver identified as Kwame Owusu has been convicted for dangerous, careless, and inconsiderate driving on the Accra- Kumasi highway (N6) at Suhum inter-change approach. The convict was arrested on Tuesday, March 15, 2022, after failing to comply with road traffic regulations. The accused who was driving a white Volvo …

Torrential rains in Bekwai in the Ashanti Region have ripped off the roof of some schools in the area. The rains, which lasted for hours on Thursday, 17 March 2022, caused an interruption in power supply, leaving the town in darkness. The roof of some classrooms at the Bekwai Senior …

Former Black Stars coach, James Kwasi Appiah, has tipped Ghana to qualify to the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar ahead of the Super Eggless of Nigeria. The Black Stars of Ghana will host the Super Eagles of Nigeria at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi in the first leg of the FFIFA …