This year’s Maulud Nabiyi, to wit the celebration of the birthday of the Holy Prophet Mohammed, was held in Kumasi where Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia and former President John Mahama suffered major protocol breaches. The programme hosted by one of the leading clerics of the Tijanniyya sect, Sheikh Wadudu Cisey, saw …
Read More »Ghana, DR Congo license new Ebola vaccine
Ghana and three other African countries – the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and Zambia – have licensed and can now distribute an Ebola vaccine, which the World Health Organization (WHO) has hailed as a “milestone”. Preliminary study results indicate the Ervebo vaccine, manufactured by Merck, has a 97.5% efficacy …
Read More »14-year-old girl killed, dumped in a bush at Twifo Agona
Fear has gripped residents of Twifu Agona in the Twifu Atti-Morkwa District of the Central Region after a 14-year-old girl, Maame Esi a student at Agona D/A Basic School was murdered and dumped in a bush. Information suggests that four suspects namely Kwabena Asamoah, Abraham Anti, Kofi Owusu and Akwesi …
Read More »Teacher assaults 9-year-old pupil for criticising taste of her ‘sobolo’ drink
A teacher at Nkwanata South M/A Redeem Basic of the Oti region has canned a nine-year-old pupil to the point of injury for criticising the taste of her ‘sobolo’ drink. The pupil (name withheld) sustained multiples injuries on her body as she was severely beaten by her class teacher whose name given …
Read More »Top 2 NDC MPs involved in a fatal car accident
Two leading minority Members of Parliament, Ahmed Ibrahim, and Muntaka Mubarak almost lost their lives in a near-fatal accident. The NDC party members were on their way to a funeral in Sunyani when their SUV got involved in an accident. According to reports, the SUV veered off the road and …
Read More »BREAKING NEWS: Shatta Wale Arrested By Police (VIDEO)
hanaian dancehall artiste Shatta Wale has been arrested by the police according to a video that has just surfaced on social media in a breaking news. The video sighted by us at OccupyGh.com shows the ‘Borjor‘ hitmaker who featured Vybz Kartel on ‘All-Out’ single being whisked away by the Nima police officers. …
Read More »Mobile data penetration crosses 100% mark
At the end of December 2019, total mobile data subscriptions stood at about 30.4 million, which is 101 per cent penetration compared to the country’s population. Mobile cellular voice subscriptions have for many years been more than the country’s population, but mobile data subscription had not topped the population until …
Read More »‘Arrogant’ police officers harass GhanaWeb journalists
The popular saying “the Police is your friend” is often negated by the conduct of the Ghana Police Service, and only of decreasing minority have a good word to say about these men in uniform in terms of upholding professional conduct with the general public. One major characteristic of a …
Read More »Children among 22 killed in attack on Cameroon village
At least 22 people have been killed in an attack on a village in north-west Cameroon, the UN says. Over half those killed in Ntumbo were children, and local media report that several victims were burned alive. No-one has claimed responsibility for Friday’s incident, but an opposition party blamed the …
Read More »Stay in china, we’ll send you ‘shito, gari and kenkey’ – Gov’t to stranded Ghanaian students
The Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu has announced the “readiness” of the Akufo-Addo government to ship loads of Ghanaian staple foods like “shito, gari and kenkey that can last over 2 weeks without going bad”, to the over 300 Ghanaian students who have been trapped in the Chinese province …
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