A teacher at the St. Paul’s Senior High School at Techiman, Paul Dwamena has been found dead in the school’s Staff Common Room. In what is being reported as an alleged suicide case although there was no suicide note cited at the crime scene, the Religious and Morals Education …
Read More »VIDEO: Why so many kidney deaths in Ghana?
65-year-old Ajara Mensah is battling for her life as her 25-year-old daughter, Rose Mensah struggles to pay for the treatment of kidney complications, which is dragging her slowly to her grave. Studies show that about 13% of Ghanaians have chronic kidney disease and many are dying on daily basis from …
Read More »Has Twitter found a new home in Ghana?
The social media giant wants to open new headquarters in Accra – the company’s first in Africa. Twitter’s also recruiting at least a dozen people to help it expand its reach across the continent. “Microsoft has been here, Facebook has been here, Amazon in South Africa”, says Linda Bonyo, a Kenyan lawyer …
Read More »Bad weather forced Accra-Kumasi flight to land in Abidjan – PassionAir explains
PassionAir, a domestic airline operating in Ghana, says their flight OP152 which departed from Accra for Kumasi on April 17, 2021, landed at the Félix Houphouët-Boigny International Airport due to deteriorating weather conditions at the Kumasi airport. According to the company, the diversion was necessary as it was in …
Read More »17-year-old charged with murder in death of Ghanaian in the US
A 17-year-old, Torian Wilson, has been charged with murder by authorities of St Louis, Missouri, USA, for killing Elijah Newman, 45, a Ghanaian immigrant and a Lyft driver. The suspect who lives at the 8500 block of Mora Lane in St. Louis, was also charged with armed criminal action …
Read More »45-year-old Ghanaian killed in US
A St. Peters family is grieving and authorities are asking the public for any information to help solve the murder of a 45-year-old father of five and Lyft driver. Homicide detectives are still trying to piece together exactly what lead up to the deadly shooting. Elijah Newman was shot and …
Read More »Two cousins, aged 7 and 8, die in fire at home
Two girls, aged seven and eight, died when their Mpumalanga home caught fire. iStock Two cousins, aged seven and eight, died when their Mpumalanga home caught fire while they were asleep. According to police, the girls’ parents were away and their uncle, who lives in the same house in Masoyi, …
Read More »Twitter Africa HQ in Ghana not solution to unemployment – International Diplomatic Consultant
International Diplomatic Consultant Farouk Al-Wahab has posited the Twitter Africa Headquarters in Ghana cannot employ the teeming number of unemployed youth in the country. He disclosed that the social media platform relies on a high level of technology and does not need a huge workforce to operate. “Twitter cannot employ …
Read More »Iran nuclear: State TV names suspect in Natanz attack
IMAGE COPYRIGHTREUTERSimage captionIranian state TV broadcast this image of the man it wants in connection with the attack Iran’s state TV has named a man that intelligence authorities allege was responsible for an attack at the Natanz nuclear site last weekend. Reza Karimi fled Iran shortly before the blast, Network …
Read More »5 steps to owning your first house in Ghana
I was listening to Sarkodie’s ‘Hand to Mouth’ song recently. Believe me, the 3mins 15 secs song which appeared to be targeted at the youth was full of wise nuggets for the old; the rich and the poor also. He bemoaned the phenomenon where people at their prime, cultivate an …
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