A team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is set to arrive in Ghana today, Tuesday, July 5, 2022, ahead of a discussion with the government of Ghana on a bail-out request made to the fund. Negotiations will begin on Wednesday, July 6, 2022. President Nana Akufo-Addo on Friday, July …
Read More »Five severely injured in accident at Gomoa Okyereko
Five persons are severely injured and receiving Treatment at Winneba Trauma and Specialist Hospital after a GMC private car collided with a Toyota Hiace bus transporting food items from Accra to Ajumako Mando Senior High School in the Central Region. The accident occured at Gomoa Okyereko on the Kasoa Cape-Coast …
Read More »75-year-old woman found hanging dead in her room
A 75-year-old woman has been found dead under mysterious circumstances at Okaikrom, near Afigyase District in the Ashanti Region. According to a Kessbenonline.com report, the elderly woman was found dead in her room with a rope around her neck. For some residents, the death of the old woman comes as …
Read More »Two Ghanaian footballers arrested in India over fake travel documents
Two Ghanaian footballers were arrested by Meghalaya Police in the northeastern part of India for not possessing valid travel documents on Saturday. A police team intercepted a tourist vehicle bearing registration number ML 05 T 3049 in NH 6 along Ummulong and detected six African nationals. Out of the six …
Read More »14-year-old dormant factory brought back to life in Central Region
After 14 years of shutdown, Coastal Groves Limited, a wholly owned Ghanaian organic orange juice processing factory in the Central Region of Ghana, was on Tuesday, re-inaugurated by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. The ceremony took on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and …
Read More »Ghana gets legal backing to trade in Cedi among African countries – BoG Governor
The governor of the central bank, Dr.Ernest Addison, has said that legal frameworks have been firmed up to commit Ghana into trading in local currencies among countries in the African continent. He said the central bank has embarked on reforms which will enhance financial transaction with Ghana and it’s neihghbouring …
Read More »VIDEO: Meet Herbert Adika – The man who discovered Abedi Pele in 1975
Former Black Stars skipper and African football great, Abedi Ayew Pele, would not have been who he became but for one man. The man is Herbert Adika. He was the man who spotted and nurtured Pele’s talent at the juvinille level decades ago. Abedi played for Mr Adika’s side, Great …
Read More »Libya protesters storm parliament building in Tobruk
Protesters have stormed Libya’s parliament in the eastern city of Tobruk and set fire to part of the building. Images posted online showed thick columns of smoke as the demonstrators burned tyres outside. There have been rallies in other Libyan cities against continuing power cuts, rising prices and political deadlock. …
Read More »Dozens freed from church awaiting ‘Second Coming’ in Ondo Nigeria
Police in Nigeria have rescued 77 people, including children, from a church where they were confined in the south-western state of Ondo. Some of them are believed to have been there for months. A police spokesperson said many of them had been told to expect the Second Coming of Jesus …
Read More »First Igbo translation of Quran published in Nigeria
The first translation of the Quran into the Igbo language has been published in Nigeria. It was launched at an event in the capital, Abuja, at the Ansar-Ud-Deen Mosque, where Muhammad Murtala Chukwuemeka told the BBC it took him five years to translate the sacred Islamic text into Igbo from …
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