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Ghanaian authorities must investigate the recent detention of three Joy News staffers, and hold to account the soldiers who interfered with their reporting, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. On January 16, a group of about 30 military officers at the Apamprama forest reserve in Ghana’s southern Ashanti region …

One suspected robber has been shot dead along the Achimota forest stretch after he succeeded in attacking and snatching two phones from two pedestrians and ran into the bush. On Wednesday, 27 January 2021 at about 9pm, the suspect now deceased armed with knife emerged from the Achimota Forest Reserve …

Mortuary Workers Association of Ghana (MOWAG) has debunked reports that mortuary workers often have sex with corpses in the morgue. Richard Kofi Jordan, General Secretary, MOWAG said in Kumasi yesterday that “These are all blatant falsehoods that some people peddle just to tarnish our image. It can never be true.” …

Prior to the recent development where Cecilia Marfo openly snatched a microphone from Joyce Blessing who was ministering on stage, the prophetess had been in the spotlight for similar treatments said to have been meted out to other personalties. Like a #me-too movement, some of these people have one way or the other recounted …

A nine-member review panel of the Supreme Court presided over by Justice Anin Yeboah has dismissed the review application filed by former President John Dramani Mahama. Mr Mahama’s application for review was premised on the court earlier dismissal of a request to have the Electoral Commission served to respond to …

Asante Fokuo, the spokesperson for former Black Stars coach, James Kwasi Appiah has appealed to the Minister of Sports-designate Mustapha Yussif to as a matter of urgency settled the debt owed Kwasi Appiah by the government. Speaking in an interview with Peace FM, Asante Fokuo decried the treatment handed the ex-Black Stars defender by the …

The Police will start random checks of vehicles with multiple persons to ensure compliance with laws on wearing face masks. At a press briefing on Thursday, the Director of Public Affairs, Supt. Sheila Abayie-Buckman said this was the next stage of police enforcement of the coronavirus safety protocols. “For as …

The Ministry of Information is today, January 28, 2021, organising a press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic. Led by Mr. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the ministry intends to provide clarifications on some concerns that have arisen from the re-opening of schools in the midst of the pandemic. The Ministry will also seek …

Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has told a U.S. court how his former American girlfriend, who exposed a part of his body via a social media post, is trying to extort $5 million from him. The documents of a civil suit he filed with a pseudonym against the lady identified …

A taxi driver has been found dead at Korle – Nkwata a suburb of New Juaben South Municipality of the Eastern Region. He was found tied with a rope in the plantain farm near Anglican Basic School at Korle -Nkwanta community. A resident assumed that the deceased taxi driver might …

As Ghanaians are coming to terms with the presence of the African Mermaid, Sister Derby, another has popped up. Sister Derby has, for time immemorial, disclosed her alter ego as a mermaid, taking her obsession as far as posing in water while donning a mermaid costume. Hajia 4 Reall Mermaid …

A suspected highway robber was gunned down during a shoot out in Ghana’s capital Accra on Wednesday morning, the police has said in a briefing. The special operation at a guest house on the Spintex road at about 11:30 am led to the death of Blessing Stephen 38, a notorious …

Ghanaians should probably brace themselves for one of the biggest alliances yet after the Great Alliance of the 1996 elections, because celebrated Dancehall musician Shatta Wale is ready to appoint Sarkodie and Stonebwoy as deputies if he is appointed Minister for Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts. Shatta Wale, known in private life as Charles Nii Armah …

A 90-year-old man, Opanin Kwamena Nsonowaa of Ashire in the Twifo Atti-Morkwa district of the Central Region has allegedly been ordered by police officers to stand in the fiery Sun for about five agonizing hours for failing to wear a nose mask. Recounting his ordeal, he said on Monday 25th …

South Africa’s military has changed its religious dress policy to allow Muslim women to wear hijabs with their military uniform, according to a rights organisation that had challenged the policy in court. The Legal Resources Centre said the changes followed discussions with the South Africa National Defence Force (SANDF). The …

The Apex Court is expected to commence the substantive hearing of the 2020 election petition today, January 28, 2020. The court was supposed to sit on the substantive case on January 26 but former president John Dramani Mahama had not filed his witness statements though they were due on January 21. Mr. …

Ghana has been ranked as one of the countries on the African continent that is heavily indebted to Asian superpower, China. China over the past few years has established itself as one of the world’s economic superpowers and as such the Asian country has become one of the biggest lenders …

The Health Ministry has directed public laboratories in the country to drop all charges for Ghanaians who walk in for COVID-19 tests. A circular by the ministry to labs, however, noted charges for foreigners should still be in place. “The Ministry has decided that public COVID-19 testing laboratories providing walk-in …

Minister for Education-designate, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, has issued a disclaimer against news making rounds that he said that there will be an increment in salaries of workers including teachers. The Member of Parliament for Bosomtwe, in a Facebook post, stated that he never granted any such interview and has …

Angry residents of Bepoase, Community near Agona in the Afigya Sekyere South District of the Ashanti Region have attacked two notorious thieves for stealing 5 goats and 1 sheep in the community. A Toyota Corolla vehicle with the registration number BA- 2356-14 used by the thieves for their operations has …

A picture of Kimathi Rawlings and his elderly sister Dr. Zanetor taken at a sombre Black Stars Square during the State funeral of their father, former President Jerry John Rawlings, has illuminated social media platforms, bringing out the humour in some persons and subsequently eliciting laughter from some social media users. …

Father of the late Ghanaian dancehall artiste, Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng who was known by all as Ebony Reigns has stated that he has not failed in managing his record label. According to Nana Opoku Kwarteng who is now referred to as Starboy Kwarteng, he started the record label to continue with the good …

President Nana Akufo-Addo and his predecessor John Dramani Mahama have been pictured at the funeral of Jerry John Rawlings showing mutual respect to each other despite their ongoing court case. At the funeral of Jerry John Rawlings who was buried in Accra on Wednesday, Nana Akufo-Addo walked to Mr Mahama …

Songstress Mzbel born Belinda Nana Ekua Amoah,has acknowledged that her life’s choices have been bad. Mzbel after her rise to fame has always been in the news for all the controversial reasons. Although she tries her best to position her brand in a better light, she keeps failing at the …

Filmmaker Leila Djansi has asked the Ghanaian media to desist from the commentary suggesting that the late former President of Ghana Jerry John Rawlings had a bad side. According to her, Rawlings had an unmatched integrity and led by example and that is what earned him a bad name. To …