A 40-year old man, Kwabena Tweneboah Kodua has died after allegedly suffering a brutal assault in the hands of a police patrol team that was enforcing the partial lockdown on Monday night at Konkori, near Kumasi in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti region. Mother of the deceased, Maame …
Read More »Coronavirus: Journalists are also frontline workers – Sulemana Braimah
The issue of who is a frontline worker has dominated the public sphere especially when the Government of Ghana announced some measures laid down for frontline health workers taking care of patients who have been tested positive for the novel Coronavirus. The role of journalists in the fight against Coronavirus cannot be left …
Read More »Mmebusem runs away from Shatta Wale, Sarkodie beef
Ghana Jesus, otherwise known as Mmebusem, has dissociated himself from an earlier Twitter post that was assigned to him. According to Mmebusem, the Twitter account that tweeted that anytime Shatta Wale releases a diss song Sarkodie’s fans come out to bash him but hail Sarkodie anytime he drops a diss …
Read More »You promised ‘kayayes’ GHC10 daily, give it to them – Yagaba MP to govt
The Member of Parliament for Yagaba/Kumori has raised concerns about what he calls inconsistencies from government on the provision for Kayayes and other vulnerable groups suffering the biting edge of the lockdown in Accra and Kumasi. According to Ibrahim Abdul-Rauf Tanko, claims of the Minister of Gender, children and social protection that …
Read More »Lockdown: Ramaphosa says scientific analysis of whether it is working is expected within days
South Africans will soon know if the national lockdown is working. On Tuesday, President Cyril Ramaphosa said the government would soon receive a scientific assessment on whether the national lockdown, which ends next week, had worked. This amid uncertainty about the trajectory of the coronavirus pandemic and an economic meltdown …
Read More »COVID-19: Kumasi Central Market to operate shift system to avoid overcrowding
Following the closure of the Kumasi Central Market on Tuesday, April 7, 2020, the market is set to run on a shift system after it is opened for trading activities on Thursday, April 9, 2020. This was captured in a statement from the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) and signed by …
Read More »Nigeria visa firm owned by man on fraud charges
The owner of the Nigerian government-appointed company which produces visas for people wishing to travel to Nigeria from around the world is facing charges of fraud and money laundering in Nigeria in relation to a different company, the BBC has learnt in a joint investigation with the Premium Times. There …
Read More »Coronavirus: US records highest death toll in single day
The US recorded the most coronavirus deaths in a single day with more than 1,800 fatalities reported on Tuesday. It brings the total number of deaths in the country to nearly 13,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The US has more than 398,000 confirmed cases, the highest number …
Read More »Man assaults 20-year-old stepdaughter to death for ‘disrespecting’ him
A man has physically assaulted his stepdaughter to death at a farming community in the Sekondi-Takoradi metropolis of the Western Region. Emmanuel Devor, popular known as Tsatsu, who has been arrested by the Police claimed the 20-year-old Benedicta Asaffuah, was very disrespectful to him, something he said provoked him Sunday …
Read More »[Photos] Meet the woman with the biggest hips in the world
Women try everything to increase their hips, but this woman has set a record as one with the biggest hips in the world. Mikel was born a normal-sized young woman in USA before she ballooned after her first child. Her hips measure an unusual 8 feet (2.4 m) in circumference …
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