Police in South Africa have found a woman hacked to death in the remnants of a house fire in what they suspect was a dispute with her husband. The police suspect that Phillip Mafalo killed his wife Magdeline Mpana Mahlokwane and then set their vehicle on fire before dousing himself …
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Cosmetics hidden in fake baby: Uganda busts smuggler from DRC
The Ugandan Revenue Authority, URA, on Wednesday (January 8) recorded a marvelous bust as a woman attempted to smuggle a baby full of banned cosmetics into the country. The baby in question was actually just the dress filled with cosmetic products and strapped to the back of the woman. URA …
Read More »Two suspects arraigned for burning teacher to death
Police in Mutitu, Kitui East, are investigating the circumstances under which a teacher was burnt to death following protests at a school. Mr Wambua Mwangangi and Mr Chris Kyalo Muli were arraigned on Thursday over the killing of Ms Daisy Mbaluka Mbathe, who taught at Ndooni Primary School. It was …
Read More »Stop the ‘stupid’ election predictions – Senyo Hosi to prophets
Senyo Hosi, Chief Executive Officer(CEO) of Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors(CBOD), has reacted angrily to prophecies by some popular Ghanaian prophets on which of Ghana’s two major political parties will win the 2020 elections, describing the prophecies as the “stupidity of election predictions.” The accomplished businessman is wondering why the …
Read More »‘Shocked’ GBC blasts Ghana FA for awarding Premier League rights deal to StarTimes
The Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) wants the Ghana Premier League broadcast rights which have been awarded to Star Times to be reviewed after the state broadcaster claimed they presented a healthy financial bid. On Wednesday, the Ghana Football Association announced the Chinese Pay-TV channel as rights holders for the Premier …
Read More »We have officially told George Abege, Didi Arnold we don’t need them at Kotoko – Nana Coker
Management member of Asante Kotoko, Nana Gyimbibi Coker says that the Porcupine Warriors will look to downsize their playing squad before the close of the transfer window. He said the club is making frantic efforts to ship out some dead wood, whose services will no longer be needed by the …
Read More »AUDIO: SA Home Affairs gazettes new tougher laws for refugees & asylum seekers
Listen to the full interview below… Home Affairs Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has gazetted the Refugees Amendment Act, which came into effect from 1 January. The amended act has new rules for refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa. Speaking to Clement Manyathela on the Xolani Gwala Show, Dr Motsoaledi …
Read More »Dare me if my words are untrue – Owusu Bempah throws challenge to Prophet Oduro
General Overseer and Founder of the Glorious Word Power Ministry International, Rev Isaac Owusu Bempah, has thrown a challenge to the founder and leader of Alabaster International Ministry, Prophet Kofi Oduro to prove him wrong if he (Prophet Oduro) has any objections to allegations of womanizing and drunkenness he is …
Read More »VIDEO: Meet the Ghanaian chief who is a taxi driver in America
It has come out that Nana Gyensare Osei V, a chief of the Akwamu people, who oversees the residents of five towns across the Eastern Region, is a taxi driver in America. In a short documentary by Barcroft.tv that was sighted by YEN.com.gh on the powerful life story of Osei, …
Read More »Bushfire burns 29 ECG poles in Sogakope, Keta
Twenty-nine (29) electricity poles belonging to the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) in Sogakope, South Tongu District, and erected along the sea defence stretch of the Keta-Havedzi road in the Keta Municipality, have been burnt by bushfires. Twenty-one (21) of them were high tension poles and the remaining eight (service …
Read More »Medikal builds a new house for his mother
Medikal has blessed his mother with a newly built and furnished house. The Ghanaian rapper took social media to showcase his gift to his mother. The “Omo Ada” rapper shared videos of his mother and family occupying their new house which he disclosed he built from the foundation to roof. …
Read More »Secretary General of Sudan FA confirms talks with Coach Appiah
Dr. Hassan Abu Gabal, Secretary-General of the Sudanese Football Association, has confirmed discussions with former Black Stars coach James Kwasi Appiah. According to Dr. Gabal, the processes of choosing a coach for the national team had reached an advanced level as Coach Appiah is one of the coaches that had …
Read More »I didn’t beg Wontumi; I helped him beg for Akufo-Addo – Bantama MP
Member of Parliament for Bantama Daniel Okyem Aboagye has denied going down on his knees to beg the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, to allow him go unopposed in the upcoming NPP parliamentary primary. Reports emerged this week that the MP at a meeting with …
Read More »NDC, Mahama run to churches, pastors to stop EC’s new voter roll – Reports
The main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its flag bearer, Mr John Dramani Mahama, have turned to the head pastors of The Church of Pentecost to intervene in the decision of the Electoral Commission (EC) to compile a new voter register a few months into the elections. The party’s …
Read More »Reduce number of legislators to ensure seriousness – Muntaka
Minority Chief Whip, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, is advocating a downward review of the number of legislators in Ghana’s Parliament from 275 to 200. This according to the Member of Parliament for Asawasi, will help deal with persistent absenteeism by members, while keeping them on their toes. “Some of our MPs …
Read More »Yirenkyikrom Youth Association Donates To Widows In Kwahu South District
Yirenkyikrom Youth Association has donated assorted items to the Kwahu Yirenkyirom community in the Kwahu South District in the Eastern Region. The items worth thousands of cedis include new and used clothing, rice, oil and bags. The youth also organized a clean-up exercise session with the community led by Mr. …
Read More »We’re sorry but you lied – Adom-Otchere tells Rawlings
Paul Adom-Otchere, host of Good Evening Ghana on Metro TV, has discredited former president Jerry John Rawlings’s speech during the commemoration of the 31st December, 1981 coup d’état in Winneba. Rawlings had said that during the reign of General Kutu Acheampong, he tried investigating some people who were plunged into …
Read More »Police launch investigations into death of NDC parliamentary hopeful
Police at Manhyia Divisional Command in Kumasi have launched investigations into the mysterious death of a parliamentary hopeful of the NDC for Subin. The partly decomposed body of 55-year-old Linford Owuo, also known as CD was found in his room at Fante New town on Wednesday. Suspicious landlord and other …
Read More »School Feeding caterers picket at Akufo-Addo’s house
Scores of aggrieved caterers who cocked under the Ghana School Feeding Programme in Accra have besieged the Nima residence of President Nana Akufo-Addo. The women have threatened to hold naked demonstration if their monies are not paid in full by the Akufo-Addo government. Some of the caterers, who spoke to …
Read More »YENDI: Police arrest kidnapper of 10-year-old boy
Police have arrested Mahamadu “Fulani” a herdsman who kidnapped a 10-year-old boy from Kintampo and demanded a ransom of twenty thousand Ghana Cedis (GHS20,000.00) before his release, in Yendi. On 6th January, 2020 at Kintampo in the Bono East Region, suspect Mahamadu Fulani took the boy along with cattle belonging …
Read More »Jean Mensah far better than ‘arrogant’ Charlotte Osei -Akua Donkor settles ‘debate’
The founder and leader of the Ghana Freedom Party (GFP), Akua Donkor in an interview has revealed in an interview on Radio 1 (100.7 ) that the former EC chairperson Charlotte Osei was arrogant. When asked by the host Nana Kwabena Addo to chose the good between former EC boss Charlotte …
Read More »BUSTED! Man gets burnt while trying to steal cables from a transformer
26-year-old Ojo Ibrahim presented above, got himself consumed while attempting to vandalize a transformer at Araromi road in Ijebu-Ijesa in Oriade Local Government Area of Osun state. As per the state police direction, Ojo had gone to the transformer house in the dead of the night when force supply had …
Read More »NIA has no timelines; we can’t rely on their data – EC to PPP
The Electoral Commission has rejected calls for it to depend on the Database of the National Identification Authority (NIA) in the quest to compile a new voters’ register for the December polls. According to the Commission, the NIA has no timelines in its data compilation exercise making it impossible for …
Read More »Zachariasen drags Kotoko to GFA over unpaid compensation
Ex-Asante Kotoko coach Kjetil Zachariasen is demanding US$12,150 over his dismissal last year. The Norwegian was fired in November 2019, four months after being recruited from AshantiGold. He was tasked to reach the Group stage of the CAF Champions League, but he could not and when the team dropped into …
Read More »MP kneels before Wontumi; begs him to declare him unopposed
The Member of Parliament for Bantama, Daniel Okyem Aboagye, in a rather shocking move, knelt down in front of the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party, Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, otherwise known as Chairman Wontumi, to declare his constituency as one of those parliamentary primaries should not be held. …
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