Nairobians Tuesday woke up to banners mounted by unknown people on footbridges along major roads leading to the central business district calling out the judiciary on its rulings perceived as selective. The banners ask why Kenya’s criminal justice system favours the rich and condemns the poor. The banners cropped up …
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Wyclef looking for Accra Academy rapper whose video was shared by Sarkodie
A student of Accra Academy with the Instagram handle @f_a_square will soon be counting his blessings as a video clip which captured him showing his rap prowess and proving his mettle has caught the attention of Wyclef Jean’s Carnival World Music Group. The video was shared by many, including Ghanaian …
Read More »Ghanaians STAMP ‘painful’ insults on Akufo-Addo on his own Facebook page over ambulances
Hundreds of Ghanaians with some of them perceived to be sympathizers of the opposition National Democratic Congress took to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s Facebook page to rain imprintable insults on him for organizing a “funfair” before distributing the ambulances he bought. The president yesterday Tuesday, 28 January 2020 inaugurated …
Read More »Over 10,000 government employees to have their salaries stopped
A payroll audit by the Auditor General has uncovered that over 10,000 employees have either no justification or sufficient information to continue drawing salaries from the public purse. It has therefore asked the affected employees to make themselves available for enumeration from January 28 to February 11, 2020 at the …
Read More »I felt like a stranger with NDC – Lucky Mensah
Veteran highlife musician, Lucky Mensah, has stated that members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) have been more supportive of him than those of the biggest opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), to which he formerly belonged. Lucky Mensah said he will still campaign and vote for the …
Read More »GJA Chairman in trouble
The Upper East Regional Chairman of the Ghana Journalist Association (GJA), Mr Eric Amoh has come under pressure from a group calling itself Loyalists of Joseph Kofi Adda, the MP for Navrongo Central and Aviation Minister for describing him as childish and immature at a press Soirée organised by the …
Read More »‘Police forced me to strip to prove that I’m a woman’
A Kenyan female bus conductor who has a beard has shared how she was stripped naked in a police cell to confirm her gender. Theresia Mumbi told BBC Swahili that traffic police in the capital, Nairobi, arrested her and held in a cell with other women. “Two officers came and …
Read More »Malawi schools shut ahead of poll ruling
A number of boarding schools in Malawi have closed and sent their pupils home ahead of a court ruling next week about the country’s disputed election. Opposition parties are challenging the re-election of President Peter Mutharika in May last year – and the judiciary has announced that its decision will …
Read More »Allotey to face GBA Disciplinary Committee
The Ghana Boxing Authority (GBA) has extended an invitation to Patrick Allotey – World Boxing Organisation (WBO) Africa Super Welterweight Champion, following his recent conduct at the Accra Sports Stadium, during the sixth week league game between Accra Hearts of Oak and Asante Kotoko. Allotey last Sunday, was seen in …
Read More »Another fire incident at Accra Academy
There is another fire outbreak on the campus of Accra Academy, a few days after a similar incident on the campus. The Alema Hall fire according to GhanaWeb sources started round 8:30 pm. This is the second time since January 15, when the first fire outbreak swept the same Alema …
Read More »GUTA advises members to suspend trip to China
The Ghana Union of Traders Association is advising members of the business community, particularly traders who intend or are preparing to China for business or any other thing to hold on. It rather encourages the possibility of transacting business and other communication via the internet until the coronavirus outbreak is …
Read More »Ghana places 5th in Africa in 2020 Best Countries report
Ghana placed 5th in Africa and number 67 in the world, according to the 2020 Best Countries Report put together by US News & World Report and supported by Wharton Business School of University of Pennsylvania and BAV Group. Egypt was 1st in Africa and number 36 in the world …
Read More »Coronavirus: Ethiopian isolates 4, Kenya, Ivory Coast test suspected cases
The coronavirus was confirmed in the Chinese city on January 7, 2020. Cases have since been confirmed in several other Asian countries, Europe and the United States. The World Health Organisation’s Africa emergency response program manager Michel Yao advised health ministers in the region to activate standard flu screening at …
Read More »New ambulances can locate caller, connect to nearest health centre
The newly-commissioned ambulances are fitted with digitised state-of-the-art dispatch management system, integrated with the national digital property addressing system which will automatically generate the digital address location of the caller, President Akufo-Addo has disclosed. This according to the President, will enable the control centre to determine straightaway the nearest ambulance to dispatch, he …
Read More »No Ghanaian student in China has contracted coronavirus – Foreign Affairs Ministry assures
The Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Ministry has disclosed that no Ghanaian student in coronavirus-hit China has been infected with the disease. The Ministry says it has been in contact with the student population thereafter they requested to be evacuated from the country that is on strict lockdown to prevent …
Read More »Man found dead in Ashaiman storm drain
A man suspected to be in his late 30s or early 40s, was on Tuesday morning found dead in a storm drain close to the Ashaiman Under-Bridge on the Tema – Accra side of the Motorway. The deceased (yet to be identified as at the time of filing this report), …
Read More »DR Amoako Tuffour: Too late to protect Ashanti NPP female seats
Dr. Amoako Tuffour has asked leadership of the New Patriotic Party in the various regions to allow all aspirants pick forms and contest in a free and fair manner. Dr. Amoako Tuffour who was speaking on Kumasi-based Otec FM’s Nyansapo programme Monday advised party leaders in the region to discard …
Read More »Sister Deborah ‘teaches’ how to pose ‘When he asks for 3rd round’
Did you really think Sister Deborah was going to let the first month of 2020 go by without ‘blessing’ us with any sexy photos? well, not a chance. After releasing saucy bikini photos, the ‘Banana’ hitmaker, Sister Deborah has again served her 1.7m followers on Instagram with a series of …
Read More »Is God really good all the time? – E.L reflects on Kobe Bryant and daughter’s death
The death of Kobe Bryant and his daughter has thrown the world into a shock and E.L has joined thousands of others pondering over the tragedy from a religious perspective. Reacting to the news, Ghanaian rapper, Elorm Adabalh, popularly known as E.L has posed a question about the goodness of …
Read More »NDC plots against EC on a farm at Afram Plains – Kennedy Agyapong
The Assin Central Member of Parliament (MP), Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, has said the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) is hatching diabolic plans to disorganise the activities of the Electoral Commission (EC) ahead of the 2020 general election. The NDC’s main objective, according to him, is to work in secret and …
Read More »Nana Addo warns against prank calls for new emergency number
President Nana Akufo-Addo has urged Ghanaians not to abuse the new 112 emergency services number. President Akufo-Addo made the call when he commissioned 307 ambulances procured by the government for distribution to all constituencies in the country on Tuesday. “I will appeal that this improvement in the provision of emergency …
Read More »Government to intervene to avoid collapse of Neoplan Ghana Limited
The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry says the government is ready to intervene to avoid the collapse of Neoplan Ghana Limited. Carlos Ahenkorah said “Let me say on authority, it’s not government’s desire to see Neoplan collapse. It has been one of the flagship companies of Ghana.” Speaking to …
Read More »The last surviving member of Kwame Nkrumah’s cabinet has passed on
Franklin Adubobi Jantuah, the only surviving member of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s regime has died. He died at the age of 91. Franklin Adubobi was a Ghanaian lawyer and politician. He was a minister of state in the first republic and in the Provisional National Defence Council. He served as minister …
Read More »One person arrested over bizarre exhumation of corpse
The Nkawkaw District Police Command has arrested one person in connection with the exhumation of remains of a deceased at Awenade, a community near Nkawkaw in the Eastern Region. The suspect Nana Kwaku Ampadu, 39, was picked up by Police Monday, January 27, 2020 at about 12:35 pm at his …
Read More »UN rights chief wants action on DR Congo army killings
The United Nations’ top human rights official has called on the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to take action to curb human rights violations by the country’s army. On the final day of a visit to the DR Congo, Michelle Bachelet told UN radio that figures from her …
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