Following a directive by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo that all universities, Senior High Schools and basic schools be closed in a bid to contain the coronavirus in Ghana, some university students openly jubilated, thanking the President for ‘liberating’ them. The President in a late night broadcast on Sunday night …

A 7-year-old schoolgirl was knocked down by a motorbike rider in the late hours of Saturday 14th March, 2020. The unfortunate incident happened in Canteen, a suburb of Damongo. According to an eyewitness, little Moshie Fakia was crossing to the other side of the road when the rider called Seidu …

The Presbyterian Church of Ghana has suspended church services for the next four weeks following directives from the President. This comes after, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo announced that all public gatherings, including conferences, workshops, funerals, festivals, political rallies, sporting events and religious activities, such as services in churches …

A routine question from her doctor about menstruation set Kenyan Julian Peter, now 29, down a path that led her to discover she was born without a womb, cervix or a vagina. Twelve years on she shared her story with the BBC’s Anne Ngugi. I was born with a condition …

A South African king, a nephew of the late Nelson Mandela, has been arrested after allegedly going on the rampage with an axe in the palace. Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo, freed from jail on parole in December, broke into the Thembu royal palace in the early hours. Witnesses said he was searching …

Dozens of Hindu activists in India hosted a cow urine-drinking party. Some members of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party have claimed that cow urine and dung can prevent and cure COVID-19. The chief of the Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha (All India Hindu Union) group hosted a cow urine-drinking event …

The Ghana Football Association following the directives given by the President of the Republic on Sunday, March 15, 2020, has suspended all its competitions with immediate effect until further notice. In a statement released last week, the GFA announced that while all competitions will go ahead as scheduled it will …

President Akufo-Addo has banned all public gatherings including conference, workshops, funerals, festivals, political rallies and church activities and related events as part of measures to stop the spread of coronavirus in the country. The President in a national address on Sunday said the ban will be in force for the …

For some time now, controversial Dancehall musician, Charles Nii Armah Mensah, popularly known as Shatta Wale has been touting himself as the richest musician in the country while the others are all poor. In his quest to sort of back his claims with some proof, the Shatta Movement boss decided to share …

A Koforidua High Court presided by Justice Mrs Cecilia Naa Shormeh Davis, has sentenced to death Kwabena Thomas Oduro, a fetish priest, on two charges of murder of Joseph Affenyi Nyame, a student of Kwahu-Ridge SHS, and Michael Ofori Agyepong, a storekeeper. The accused was also handed a 10-years imprisonment …