Twitter on Thursday said goodbye to its ‘legacy’ blue ticks following Elon Musk‘s controversial decision to switch up the platform’s verification system. As of Thursday evening, our correspondent observed that ‘legacy’ verified accounts had their blue tick removed by Twitter. The development has affected several individuals including journalists as Twitter …
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Man kills wife after she predicted her own death
An husband whose violence was recorded by his wife has been found guilty of her murder. Asim Hasan stabbed Aaisha Hasan 36 times at the family home in Canning Town, east London, on May 19 last year. But despite telling a court he had not intended to seriously harm her, the …
Read More »Tems conducted praise and worship in Ugandan prison – Manager reveals
Muyiwa Awoniyi, the manager of Grammy-award winning Nigerian singer, Tems has revealed that the entertainer conducted praise and worship in her prison cell when she was detained by the Uganda police in 2020. Recall that Nigerian artistes, Omah Lay and Tems, and some of their team members were arrested and …
Read More »Confusion as leaders press for temporary ceasefire in Sudan
Sudan’s ceasefire was still a matter of uncertainty on Thursday morning, hours after leaders from the region announced the warring parties had agreed to temporarily suspend fighting. Last minute calls coordinated between the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad), the African Union and the United Nations had announced success: That the …
Read More »ECG has accepted it wrongly accused us of stealing electricity – Police Service
The Ghana Police Service has refuted reports in the media that the service engaged in electricity theft, stressing that after a meeting with officials of the Electricity Company of Ghana ( ECG), it was established that they did not steal any electricity and the ECG has regretted the wrongful accusation. …
Read More »How Oppong-Nkrumah hatched plot to bring me down over galamsey fight – Frimpong-Boateng details in report
A report by the Chairman of the dissolved Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has cited Information Minister, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah as scheming to run him down. The 37-page report filed by the former Minister for Environment, Science and Technology dated March 19, 2021, was to brief the …
Read More »How party leaders sabotage Osun APC fortune in elections
By Seun Olawoyin In the Osun State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, it appears things have fallen apart, and unless drastic actions are taken to address the issue of gross misconduct levelled against some prominent leaders of the party in the state, the centre may not hold …
Read More »Sammy Awuku Vow To Recapture Adenta seat For NPP
The MP for Adenta Constituency Hon Mohammed Adamu Ramadan leaves in fears as Sammy Awuku vow to unseat him in the upcoming 2024 general elections. An intelligent information reaching our news desk revealed that the current CEO of National Lotto Authority was rather vying in the Eastern Region but …
Read More »AG asks Court of Appeal to overturn order to start Opuni’s case afresh
The Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has filed an appeal against the High Court’s decision that the criminal trial of the former COCOBOD boss and two others should be heard de novo (afresh). The Attorney General’s grounds of appeal is that the trial judge, Justice Kwasi Anokye Gyimah, “misdirected himself” …
Read More »WATCH: Was Mahama booed at Dome-Kwabenya?
Social media users are saying that former President John Dramani Mahama was hooted at during his campaign tour for the presidential primaries of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at Dome-Kwabenya. The claims were made after a video of Mahama at a meeting with NDC members in the Dome-Kwabenya constituency went viral. The said video, …
Read More »My Wife My Pain: She Abandoned Me With My Disability And Our 2 Kids When we Needed Her Most
Jean Paul spoke of how his beloved wife, despite his disability, left him and their two kids at a time when they needed her most to take care of them and their home.He explained that although he was born without any disability, he became disabled at the age of seven …
Read More »Dr Ago Tetteh sounds alarm ahead of Ga Traditional Council’s ban on drumming, noisemaking
It is almost that time of the year when the Ga Traditional Council put a ban on drumming and noise-making in communities of the Greater Accra Region ahead of the Homowo festival. Those who have always stood against the directive and called for change have been urged to relocate to …
Read More »2024: We’ll go to EC strongroom with our own tea and biscuit – Mahama
Aspiring 2024 Presidential candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress,(NDC) John Dramani Mahama says party agents who will be sent to the National Collation Center otherwise known as “strongroom” of Electoral Commission(EC) will go in with their own tea and buy their own biscuits. In the 2020 Presidential election petition filed by …
Read More »Police retrieve exhumed bodies kept at Palace after Ofori Panin Fie sold cemetery to investor
The Suhum District Police Command in the Eastern Region on Thursday, April 20, 2023 stormed Amanase Chief’s Palace to retrieve skeletons of exhumed human bodies kept at the palace. The bodies were exhumed from the royal cemetery in the community after it was reportedly sold to an investor by Okyenhene …
Read More »Asante Kotoko to appoint Kwasi Appiah as head coach – Reports
Asante Kotoko are reportedly considering the appointment of James Kwasi Appiah as head coach. Reports in the media claim that the former Al-Khartoum gaffer is set for his second spell at the club with talks advanced. Kwasi Appiah is often referred to as someone who bares the Kotoko DNA having played and coached …
Read More »Hearts of Oak get Togbe Afede’s greenlight to name Prosper Ogum as head coach – Reports
Accra Hearts of Oak are set to appoint former Asante Kotoko manager, Prosper Ogum Narteh as a new manager. According to reports, Hearts’ Executive Board Chairman Togbe Afede XIV has approved the appointment following a meeting. If his appointment materialise, Ogum will become the third manager the club has appointed …
Read More »She refuses to do family planning – Man cries
One Chama Paul Mulenga is not a happy man at the moment because he suspects his wife is pregnant eight months after the birth of their baby. He made the complaint on a Nigerian Facebook group on Wednesday, April 19, 2023. “My wife has a problem of taking family planning of …
Read More »Arrest Kennedy Agyapong and ex-Fomena NPP chair for bribery – Asani Tano demands
Political analyst, Yaw Asani Tano has called for the arrest of New Patriotic Party flagbearer hopeful, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong and the former chairman of the party in the Adansi Fomena Constituency, Kwasi Nti. According to him, the two ought to be arrested and prosecuted for the payment and receipt of bribery respectively. …
Read More »Saudi lawyer calls for deportation of Cristiano Ronaldo for holding manhood in protest
Lawyer Nouf, a Saudi Arabia lawyer has demanded the deportation of football icon Cristiano Ronaldo following the player’s insulting gesture during Al-Nassr’s defeat to Al-Ittihad on Sunday, April 16, 2023. Ronaldo, while leaving the pitch after the disappointing defeat, grabbed his crotch in response to fans who taunted him by …
Read More »Why Michael Essien is ‘bitter’ about Ghana
Former Black Stars midfielder Michael Essien’s ‘not interested’ response to whether he will consider working for Ghana as a manager has rekindled the narrative about him being bitter about the nation. Essien seldom involves himself in national team activities, especially the Black Stars, aside sending well wishes prior to games …
Read More »Mahama, Bryan comments failed to pass criminal test threshold – IGP
The Ghana Police Service has described as ‘not criminal’, comments that were made by the Agric Minister, Bryan Acheampong; Former President, John Mahama; and Chairman of the NDC, Aseidu Nketiah. The Inspector General of Police, Dr. Akuffo Dampare, said this following a meeting held with the leaders of both the New Patriotic …
Read More »Obrafour’s $10m copyright suit against Drake: Another Ghanaian makes claim for disputed soundbite
A new twist has emerged in the $10 million copyright suit filed by Ghanaian rap legend, Obrafour against Canadian rapper, Drake. Obrafour filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York in which he is demanding the said amount from Drake over copyright infringement in his 2022 song ‘Calling My Name’ off …
Read More »NPP have neglected us since they came to power – Angry Komenda market women
Some angry market women at the Komenda market in the Komenda Edina Eguafo Abrem (KEEA) Municipality of the Central Region have expressed their disappointment with the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for neglecting them since the party came to power. The women who are mainly into trading have regretted joining the …
Read More »$2.5 million for TOR gone missing – NAPO
The Minister for Energy, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh has revealed that crude condensation of about $2.5m allocated to the Tema Oil Refinery is reportedly missing. The minister, widely known as NAPO, is reported by the Graphic on April 20, 2023, to have said that the fund was part of a business opportunity …
Read More »PHOTOS: See the newly-built Kwabenya police barracks commissioned by Akufo-Addo
In the words of the Inspector General of Police, COP Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, this is something he has never seen before in his life. “… what we are seeing is the first of its kind in my life history,” he said. The IGP was speaking during the commissioning of 322 …
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