GENERAL NEWS

Ghanaian TV presenter and journalist Paa Kwesi Asare has won the 2023 BBC News Komla Dumor Award. The 36-year-old is the eighth recipient of the award and the first to come from Ghana, like the late Komla Dumor. Asare is currently the head of business news at Ghana’s private TV3 …

Until recently, when the West African country experienced some economic downturns, Ghana has been touted as one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa. The country has also been recommended as a safe hub for business and investments. There are over 100 multimillionaires in Ghana, some of whom have never been …

Prof Stephen Adei, a former rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), has quit an advisory role he occupied at the finance ministry. The decision to resign from the advisory board of the Ministry of Finance come in the wake of his critique of the management …

Tragedy struck on the Kasoa- Cape Coast Highway in the Central Region as a fatal accident involving members of the Church of Pentecost resulted in the loss of one life and left another individual critically injured. The incident occurred at Gomoa Otsew, leading to immediate responses from emergency services and …

The Coalition of Muslim Organisations, Ghana (COMOG) has reacted to the Economic Community of West African States’ (ECOWAS) follow-up reaction to the coup in Niger. A statement issued by COMOG, today, Friday, 18 August 2023, said the mode of intervention chosen by ECOWAS is a “misplaced option, as it would …

Kassoum Coulibaly, the Minister of Defence of Burkina Faso has restated his country’s readiness to support the military junta in Niger amid looming action from the regional bloc. In an interview with a Russian news channel, Coulibaly stated that his country was also open to leaving the Economic Community of …

Renowned life coach Solomon Buchi has urged Africans to drop rigid gender roles in relationships. According to him, the traditional gender role allocations are no more useful and need to be abolished. “I can’t cook for my wife…it’s a woman’s job,” Buchi wrote, mimicking a common perspective. “I can’t pay …

A pastor at a Manhyia branch of the SDA Church has been forced to close his own church over allegations that the elders of the prayer ministry have been involved in corrupt practices. The Acts 2000 local SDA Church at Manhyia was closed down also because, according to its leader, …

Abdel-Fatau Musah, the Commissioner of Political Affairs, Peace and Security of the ECOWAS, has diputed claims that the bloc needs 50,000 troops in Niger if they are to deploy men to oust the military junta. He said Niger’s military stands at 13,000 and it won’t take 50,000 men to face …

An unassuming millionaire and native of Kwahu, Yaw Sarpong, has recalled the beautiful experience he had with his family some years ago when they went to see a cave hidden somewhere within the mountains, and how that led to him deciding to construct a 5km road. Yaw Sarpong explained that …