Facebook-parent company, Meta has said that it will restore former President Donald Trump’s accounts on Facebook and Instagram in the coming weeks, just over two years after suspending him in the wake of the January 6 Capitol attack. Meta made the landmark decision to bar Trump from posting …
Read More »Blogger and IT man arrested for spreading false news leading to panic dollar account withdrawals
A blogger and an Information Technology (IT) professional have been put before an Accra Circuit Court on charges of spreading false news. The blogger, Jeffrey Eppirim, was charged with publication of false news while the I. T professional Jeremiah Kobina Egyebeng was charged as his accomplice. According to a report …
Read More »Account for $9million World Cup money – Songo to GFA, Sports Ministry
Controversial sports journalist, Patrick Osei Agyemang alias Countryman Songo has asked the Ghana Football Association and the Sports Ministry to account for the alleged money they received from FIFA for Black Stars preparation for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Ghana is expected to receive the first tranche of a whooping $9 million after …
Read More »NDC account resurrected my viral old tweets – KiDi
Reigning VGMA Artiste of the Year, KiDi, has disclosed that the resurfacing of his old tweets that led to public humiliation and backlash was a political move. According to the ‘Touch it’ hitmaker, he initially had no idea where the old tweets came from but investigations revealed that they came …
Read More »Mankessim killing: Mother gives ‘chilling’ account of daughter’s murder
The mother of the murdered lady who went for a nursing training interview at Ankaful in the Central Region, Maame Akua Anowa, has narrated how her daughter, 22-year-old Asor, was murdered. 22-year-old nurse trainee, Ms. Georgina Asor Botchwey, was killed and buried inside a traditional leader’s kitchen at Mankessim. The …
Read More »Instagram removes Pornhub’s account
Instagram has suspended Pornhub’s widely followed account on the social platform. Before the sex site’s account was removed from Instagram, Pornhub had 13.1 million followers and more than 6,200 posts. Reps for Meta, Instagram’s parent company, did not respond to a request for comment. The move comes one month after Visa and Mastercard …
Read More »French Ambassador ‘locks’ Twitter account after social media backlash over queenship title
Anne Sophe Ave, the French Ambassador to Ghana, has been compelled to lock her Twitter account after some backlash over her installation as a developmental queen of Osu. Anne Sophe Ave came under attack from some Twitter users who linked the ceremony with neo-colonialism tendencies. A tweet by one user …
Read More »Heroic account of how 14-year old saved mother and child from burning building
A 14-year-old boy has been praised for quickly rescuing a mother and her child from a burning house in Taifa. According to the ‘heroic’ rescuer, he was watching over his mother’s hairdressing salon when he heard cries for help and therefore sprang into action. The teenager, identified as Henry Laryea …
Read More »Chilling account of how Kofi Kyinto was killed by his 28-year-old uncle in the mid-1980s
In the mid-1980s, the country woke up to the chilling details of how a nine-year-old boy, Kofi Kyinto, was brutally murdered by his 28-year-old uncle. For many Ghanaians, the image of his uncle, Benjamin Affi, a farmer from Sefwi Bekwai, holding the severed head of his nephew, remained the most …
Read More »VIDEO: Blow by blow accounts of how Kofi Adomah Nwanwanii was attacked by ‘assassins’
News readers woke up on the morning of Sunday, August 7, 2022, to the devastating, shocking news of the attempted assassination of one of Ghana’s most loved media personalities, Kofi Adomah Nwanwanii. In the accounts of a close source to the media personality, it was a regular day for him …
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