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 …
Read More »Hindu group hosts cow urine drinking party to ward off coronavirus
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 …
Read More »GFA suspends all football competitions
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 …
Read More »Government bans church activities, funerals, other public gatherings
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 …
Read More »Shatta Wale finally shows the world his account balance to prove he is indeed ‘rich’
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 …
Read More »Court sentences fetish priest to death for murder
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 …
Read More »Coronavirus: Akufo-Addo shuts down schools until further notice
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has directed the management of schools in the country to shut down effective Monday, March 16, 2020, until further notice. The President gave the order when he addressed the nation on Sunday. He said, “All universities, Senior High Schools and basic schools ie public and private schools, …
Read More »Covid-19: Legon suspends lectures
The University of Ghana has suspended lecturers for graduate student following the confirmation of cases of coronavirus in Ghana. In a memo the executive council of the university said: “All Lectures have been suspended by the Executive Council of the University until further notice. We encourage all students to be …
Read More »Covid-19: Ghana now has 6 cases – Gov’t
Ghana has recorded four more new cases of the Novel Coronavirus bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to six. Two of the individuals returned to the country from the United States last week, the Director of Public Health at the Health Service (GHS) Dr Badu Sarkodie …
Read More »Man Caught Strangling With 4 Year Old Girl In An Uncompleted Building
A bricklayer is currently in hot soup after he was caught trying to strangle a four year old girl in the oyero area of Ekiti in Nigeria. The suspected child abductor, Ola Ibidapo, had held his victim, Tola by neck and was about to strangle her in an umcompleted building …
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