Africa’s oldest president and one of the continent’s longest-serving rulers – President Paul Biya – will mark 40 years in power this weekend. Nationwide commemorative activities have been planned and his supporters are celebrating his achievements. But the 89-year-old’s opponents are lukewarm, calling on him to step down and hand …

A three-year-old child is the sole survivor of a murder spree that left six people dead at a house in New Brighton, Eastern Cape. Some victims were shot, while others were stabbed. The unharmed child was allegedly found next to the body of their mother, who had been shot twice …

Starboy Kwarteng, the father of late Dancehall songstress, Ebony Reigns, has asserted that award-winning reggae-dancehall artiste Shatta Wale should be investigated as he might have something to do with his daughter’s death. According to him, he’s been disturbed after hearing the allegation but doesn’t want to conclude anything until he has …

Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court in Lagos has convicted and sentenced a former professional footballer, Okafor Emmanuel Junior to five years’ imprisonment for cocaine trafficking.   The judgement was handed down after Emmanuel pleaded guilty to the charge of trafficking in the banned substance made against him by the …

Deadly attack on Mogadishu military training camp comes a week after twin explosions in the city killed at least 116 people. A suicide bomber has detonated his explosives near a military training camp in Somalia, killing at least five people and wounding 11 others, according to the state-run SONNA news …

A plane has crashed into a Tanzanian lake early Sunday morning according to multiple local media reports. The incident happened in the Lake Victoria located in Tanzania’s Kagera region. In photos circulating on social media, the plane has plunged into the river with only the tail showing. As part of …

Ghana goalkeeper Richard Ofori on Saturday won his second trophy with South African giants Orlando Pirates. Ofori joined the Pirates in October 2020 and has been their first-choice goalkeeper ever since. He has become so important in the last two years that he now captains the team. He wore the …

In the midst of a depreciating currency, past views of members of the governing New Patriotic Party, NPP, have often become topical. Past social media posts – Twitter and Facebook – on the performance of the Ghana cedi has often been dug up to point to how critical NPP leaders …

There’s been a lot of media brouhaha about the fertilizer crisis in Ghana, focusing on recent huge price increases for inorganic (synthetic) fertilizer. Indeed, the price of inorganic fertilizer in Ghana has gone up about 5-fold in the last two years (and for those lucky enough to receive government-subsidised fertilizer …

Four(4) suspected armed robbers have attacked and robbed some residents of Kusanaba in the Bawku West District of the Upper East Region, MyNewsGh.com reports. The suspects according to the Zebilla Police, attacked their victims at the Kusanaba Forest and made away with various sums of money. According to the facts …