A 20-year-old lady, Miracle Kalu, who was arrested for selling her one-month-old baby for N130,000, to an unknown couple in Lagos, has blamed her action on hardship. She was traced to her residence in Orlu, Imo State, after the baby, who was being conveyed to his new parents in Lagos, …
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Muslims fume over Justice Tanko Amadu’s comment on Hijab
Muslims across the country are unhappy with the remarks of Supreme Court judge nominee Justice Issifu Tank Amadu over the wearing of Hijab in schools. The Appeal Court judge told the Parliament vetting committee Monday that he saw no problem with secular schools stopping Muslim girls from wearing the Hijab …
Read More »Seth Terkper exposes NDC’s hypocrisy, vindicates Bawumia on ‘Dumsor’ in viral video
Former Finance Minister Seth Tekper has made an honest admission which has vindicated Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia‘s clash with the NDC over comparisons of effects of dumsor and Coronaviruson the Ghanaian economy, and governments’ socio-responses. The controversy was ignited by former President John Dramani Mahama, who criticised government’s response to the Coronaviruspandemic, and also …
Read More »Man arrested for allegedly killing sister during argument
A 49-year-old man from Bloemendal near Bethelsdorp in Port Elizabeth was arrested soon after the murder of his 45-year-old sister on Sunday night. According to police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu, it is alleged that at about 19:30, the woman and her brother were arguing in the lounge of their home …
Read More »Body of stabbed teen boy found near graveyard in P. E
Police are seeking the community’s assistance in identifying a teenager, approximately 16 years old, whose body was found lying in an open field in Jacksonville in Port Elizabeth on Sunday afternoon. According to provincial police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu, a community member alerted police at about 12:45 that the body of a …
Read More »AngloGold to increase Obuasi mining rate to 4,000 tonnes first quarter of 2021
AngloGold Ashanti’s Obuasi mine is expected to ramp-up its mining rate from 2,000 tonnes per day to 4,000 tonnes per day in the first quarter of next year. This is due to slower shipments of certain equipment to Ghana and difficulties in ensuring key, skilled employees can travel to the …
Read More »Local foods are great but we don’t have lands to farm – Farmer to Akufo-Addo
An award-winning farmer in the Awutu Senya District of Central Region, Mr. John Amo, has commended President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for admonishing Ghanaians to eat, local foods. However, the farmer says they lack available lands to help them farm, a situation he explained is dangerous for food security Mr. John Amo …
Read More »We will compile new register, nobody can control us – EC
The Electoral Commission has stated that it will go ahead and compile a new voters’ register for the upcoming polls adding that no individual or authority can direct or control them. In a terse statement, the EC said “as stated Article 46 of the 1992 Constitution, the EC would like …
Read More »Kumchacha condemns sex on first date
Controversial man of God and self-acclaimed sex addict, Prophet Kumchacha, has taken to the air to condemn men who try to have sex with women on their first date. He stated that there are a lot of men whom for their first date, instead of taking the lady out to …
Read More »It’s sad Galamsey is destroying cocoa sector – COCOBOD CEO
Joseph Boahen Aidoo, Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), has lamented the rate at which illegal small scale miners (galamseyers) are destroying cocoa farms in the country. He said the activities of these miners are destroying the backbone of the Ghanaian economy, a situation that could have …
Read More »Abronye DC writes to police, levels counter-allegations against Mahama
The Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kwame Baffoe Abronye is asking the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ghana Police Service to ignore allegations levelled against him by former President John Mahama. The former president through his counsel, Tony Lithur had accused the man popularly known as …
Read More »I want to retire – Eric Bekoe
Former Kumasi Asante Kotoko goal monger, Eric Bekoe has firmly stated that he wants to retire from professional football but a session of Ghanaians are convincing him not to hang his boots. Speaking to Television CK’s Jeffries Kwabena Sintim-Koree on YouTube, he said, “I want to retire but people are …
Read More »Five Covid-19 patients die in Russia hospital fire
A fire at a St Petersburg hospital has killed five coronavirus patients in an intensive care unit. The blaze was apparently started by a short-circuit in a ventilator, Russian news agencies reported. The fire has now been contained and 150 people have been evacuated from the hospital, the country’s emergency …
Read More »Asante Kotoko’s Kwame Kyei appears before Manhyia Committee
The executive Board chairman of Asante Kotoko has appeared before the committee investigating the financial state and dealings of the club under his tenure. The oil magnate, Kwame Kyei, together with other members of his management appeared before the committee headed by Prof. Lydia Nkansah, Dean of the Faculty of …
Read More »John Mahama splashed by Airbus corruption affair
Relatives of the former president are implicated in an investigation into the corruption scandal that has shaken European aeronautics giant Airbus. The revelations come at a bad time for John Dramani Mahama, who is taking a fresh run at the presidency this year. One could hardly have imagined a more unlikely …
Read More »Fire guts stores at the Navrongo main market
Fire has ravaged several stores at the Navrongo main market Monday night. The inferno, which started at about 8pm, destroyed containers and other properties belonging to the traders. Three large provision stores close to the smoked mudfish market, in the same vicinity with the Zambarima Pwekura, were completely destroyed before …
Read More »Man whose wife and lover attempted to kill begs for wife as he forgives her
The embattled husband of a 27-year-old woman, who connived to murder the husband at Pameng in the Atiwa West District of the Eastern region, says he has long forgiven her wife. Fifty-five-year-old Cudjoe Gator is also pleading for leniency for the wife, whom he has four kids with. Mavis Brepo, …
Read More »Pius Hadzide Is A Threat To Press Freedom; Sack Him ― Group To Akufo-Addo
CEGA has observed with great worry a development if not unchecked will further dent the image of the government so far as press freedom in the country is concerned. During the normal discussions on TV3 this morning 11th May 2020 hosted by one Mr Johnny Hughes, the Deputy Minister for …
Read More »[Photos | Video] Two hotels demolished over breach of lockdown rules
The authorities in Nigeria’s oil-rich southern Rivers state have demolished two hotels over an alleged breach of lockdown rules intended to contain the spread of coronavirus. State Governor Nyesom Wike, who supervised the tearing down of Edemete Hotel and Prodest Home on Sunday, said the operators had flouted an order …
Read More »FLOOD: Kasoa residents sleep in wheelbarrows [VIDEO]
The National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) has attributed the lack of roofing safety hooks in some houses as a major cause of flooding in Kasoa Ofaakor and its environs. According to the NADMO Director for Awutu Senya East in the Central Region, Kwame Amoah, over 1,000 roofs were ripped off, …
Read More »Video: Lilwin in trouble as Nana Top Kay visits the ‘shrine’
Former friend of Kwadwo Nkansah Lilwin, who has become a rival and fetish priest, Nana Top Kay is in a video available to us sent a stern warning the way of the Weezy Empire boss. This warning from Nana Top Kay comes at the back of Lilwin’s decision to record a video of himself jamming …
Read More »Traders in Bolgatanga beaten and arrested for refusing to relocate to new market
The Bolgatanga Municipal Police Command has arrested 26 market women for not abiding by social distancing order to demonstrate against the Bolgatanga Municipal Assembly. The women were also beaten by police officers on orders of the Bolgatanga Municipal Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Richard Anaba Salifu. The market women, numbering over 100, took …
Read More »Video shows Rome City shaking after being hit by earthquake
A mild earthquake shook Rome on Monday morning after the Italian city came out of Coronavirus lockdown following a massive drop in new cases. The quake, which had magnitude 3.3, struck at 5.03am 10 miles north of the Italian capital. It was also captured in a webcam footage. According to …
Read More »Four suspected cultists with guns arrested
Four suspected cultists with guns were apprehended on Sunday, May 10, by Ngwuru Neighbourhood Watch in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State. The chairman of the neighbourhood watch, Mr Ferdinand Onah said that the boys who are in their early 20s were apprehended at Ogbaegu, in Ngwuru following intelligence …
Read More »Govt’ has not given us any PPEs – EC
The Electoral Commission (EC) has disputed the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu’s claim that the government has allocated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to the Commission. Mr. Iddrisu had questioned the priorities of the government and the EC amid the novel coronavirus pandemic after alleging the allocation of PPE. The EC in its statement however clarified …
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