The Government of Ghana has extended the phase II of the nationwide disinfection exercise programme to disinfect markets in the country to the Upper West region.   As part of the structures put in place to curb the COVID 19 pandemic, the government is embarking on another disinfection of all …

The whole building containing a number of shops belonging to the Bantamahene, Baffuor Asare Owusu Amankwatia, has been demolished. The shops were fast springing up at the Race Course in Kumasi. The demolishing exercise happened barely 48 hours after the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, reprimanded the Bantamahene for illegally …

A 35-year-old woman has been arrested by the police at Ejura in the Ashanti Region for alleged killing her two children, aged one month and two years, at Yeboah-Akosua, a farming community in the Ejura-Sekyedumasi municipality. It is, however, unclear what led the mother of three, Adwoa Juliana, to kill …

Police in the Northern region are on a manhunt for a driver who is suspected to have run into a police officer at barrier at Diare on the Bolga-Tamale road killing him instantly. Corporal Agoha Nelson was on duty together with three of his colleagues at a barrier when the …

Liverpool midfielder Fabinho’s home was burgled as the footballer celebrated the team’s Premier League win. Thieves broke into the Brazilian’s home on the day the Reds were presented with the trophy for their first top-flight win in 30 years. Items of jewellery and an Audi RS6 were stolen during the raid …

A four-year-old boy died in a fire at a home in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, on Friday night. Two women – the child’s mother and a relative – sustained injuries, said City of Cape Town Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson Jermaine Carelse. “The City’s Fire and Rescue Service was alerted at about 19:40 …

South Africa’s prisons body says it has arrested all but eight of the 69 inmates who escaped from a facility in the Western Cape on Friday. Explaining how it had happened in a statement, South African Correctional Service said the prisoners had “overpowered officials during exercise” then “took the keys …

Popular Iranian-born Australia-based Islamic cleric, Mohammad Tawhidi a.k.a Imam of Peace has taken to Twitter to call for the arrest of Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari.   The hashtag ‘ArrestBuhari’ is currently trending #1 on Twitter. Taking to his Twitter page, Imam Tawhidi called for the arrest of the incumbent president, saying he …

Flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama is set to formally outdoor, running mate Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang on Monday, July 27. In a press release sighted by JoyNews and signed by the Campaign spokesperson for the party James Agyenim-Boateng, the occasion is to allow Professor …

In a video fast-going, viral sees two kasoa boys seriously exchanging blows in the streets. As people stand to watch as they give them the morale to continue the act, one of the two boys was seen running a point he exhausted his strength. The anonymous guy who took the video was …