South Africa’s communications minister has been suspended for two months – one of which will be without pay – for having lunch with a friend during the coronavirus lockdown. Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has been the talk of the town since a photograph of her eating with Mduduzi Manana surfaced this week. …

Herman Chinery-Hesse, the CEO of SoftTribe, has stated that God did not create man for man to toil before making ends meet but rather man was created to enjoy life to the fullest. According to Chinery-Hesse, the introduction of the 5G system is to make man work easier and faster …

Hundreds of African residents and businessmen in China’s southern city of Guangzhou have been evicted from hotels and apartments as local health officials rollout a testing campaign for Covid-19, community leaders have told the BBC. Those evicted say they are being discriminated against. “They are accusing us of having the virus,” said …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …