LATEST UPDATES

Passion for purple revives ancient dye in Tunisia

A Tunisian man has pieced together bits of a local secret linked to ancient emperors: how to make a prized purple dye using the guts of a sea snail. “At the beginning, I didn’t know where to start,” said Mohamed Ghassen Nouira, who heads a consulting firm. “I would crush …

Read More »

Dr. S.K Nuamah Gives To Cherub Orphanage On His Birthday

The Member of Parliament for Kwadaso, Dr S.K Nuamah on Saturday morning donated food items, drinkables and toiletries amounting to several thousands of cedis to the Cherub Orphanage in the constituency.    The gesture was part of activities the MP had lined up in commemoration of his birthday.   Wearing …

Read More »

109 Markets in the Upper west region Disinfected by Government

The ministry of local government and rural development in partnership with Zoomlion Ghana Limited has conducted the second phase of the nationwide disinfection exercise in the upper west region of the country.     The disinfection and fumigation exercise forms part of the government’s coordinated efforts in fighting the spread …

Read More »

Committee report on KNUST SHS student’s death ready

The Committee charged with Investigating issues with regards to the death of a final year student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Senior High School has completed its work and has handed the report over the Ghana Education Service in the Ashanti Region. The Report was submitted …

Read More »

China donates medical supplies to the First Lady of Ghana

Charge d’affaires of the Chinese Embassy to Ghana, Mr. Zhu Jing has presented boxes of medical supplies to H.E. Rebecca Akufo-Addo, the First Lady of the Republic of Ghana on behalf of the Chinese Government. The donation was made at the request of the Organization of African First Ladies for Development …

Read More »

Big Blow To Kumasi FM As Otwinoko Resigns

It’s normal in this radio business when presenters move from one station to the other for obvious reasons, but it comes as a huge surprise if a key figure leaves a radio station whose vacuum will be difficult to fill. Well, that is the case as a renowned and sensational …

Read More »

Man shot dead after challenging armed robbers

A rubber farmer, who has been identified as Antobam and believed to be in his late 40s, has been shot and killed by armed robbers after he allegedly challenged them during a gold robbery getaway at James Town, a suburb of Dompim, in the Tarkwa Nsueam Municipality of the Western …

Read More »

Government’s Disinfection Reaches Upper West region

The Government of Ghana has extended the phase II of the nationwide disinfection exercise programme to disinfect markets in the country to the Upper West region.   As part of the structures put in place to curb the COVID 19 pandemic, the government is embarking on another disinfection of all …

Read More »

Otumfuo Demolishes Bantamahene Building At Race Course In Kumasi

The whole building containing a number of shops belonging to the Bantamahene, Baffuor Asare Owusu Amankwatia, has been demolished. The shops were fast springing up at the Race Course in Kumasi. The demolishing exercise happened barely 48 hours after the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, reprimanded the Bantamahene for illegally …

Read More »

Woman Kills Two Sons

A 35-year-old woman has been arrested by the police at Ejura in the Ashanti Region for alleged killing her two children, aged one month and two years, at Yeboah-Akosua, a farming community in the Ejura-Sekyedumasi municipality. It is, however, unclear what led the mother of three, Adwoa Juliana, to kill …

Read More »

Fabinho’s home burgled

Liverpool midfielder Fabinho’s home was burgled as the footballer celebrated the team’s Premier League win. Thieves broke into the Brazilian’s home on the day the Reds were presented with the trophy for their first top-flight win in 30 years. Items of jewellery and an Audi RS6 were stolen during the raid …

Read More »

Fire Outbreak Kills 4-year-old Boy

A four-year-old boy died in a fire at a home in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, on Friday night. Two women – the child’s mother and a relative – sustained injuries, said City of Cape Town Fire and Rescue Service spokesperson Jermaine Carelse. “The City’s Fire and Rescue Service was alerted at about 19:40 …

Read More »

Eight prisoners still at large after SA jail break

South Africa’s prisons body says it has arrested all but eight of the 69 inmates who escaped from a facility in the Western Cape on Friday. Explaining how it had happened in a statement, South African Correctional Service said the prisoners had “overpowered officials during exercise” then “took the keys …

Read More »

Mahama to outdoor running mate, Opoku-Agyemang on July 27

Flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) John Dramani Mahama is set to formally outdoor, running mate Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang on Monday, July 27. In a press release sighted by JoyNews and signed by the Campaign spokesperson for the party James Agyenim-Boateng, the occasion is to allow Professor …

Read More »