The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has engaged journalist in a two-day training program on data interpretation and communication. At the two-days training, Prof. Samuel K Annim, Government Statistician said, GSS and its partners often produce research reports on various aspects of …
Read More »Journalists more important than MPs – Akua Donkor
Founder and leader of the United Front Party (UFP), Akua Donkor has posited that the media contributes more to the development and smooth running of Ghana than Members of Parliament (MPs). According to her, Journalists are sources of information with which the nation run and even the police relies on …
Read More »Kingdom FM Journalist Bleed To Death After Surgery
News reaching DGN Online suggest that broadcast journalist of Kingdom FM game, Nana Ama Owusua, has died. Information gathered indicate that she had had surgery which reportedly resulted in complications. As a result of the complications, reports say she later bled to death at a private Health Facility at Adabraka in Accra. …
Read More »VIDEO: Ghana’s Drug Lords mad at me over my addiction story – Fmr BBC Journalist
Former BBC Journalist Paa Joe Odonkor says after he shared his grace to grass story and how drugs destroyed his life, he seems to have stepped on many toes as people who sell the substance have cautioned him against such a move. Paa Joe in an interview with SVTV last …
Read More »Read the profile of the man who scammed top journalists, celebrities with fake UN awards
In the last couple of days, there has been furor about UN awards under the auspices of Global Public Excellence where top politicians, journalists and celebrities were honored. The award scheme has been anchored by a certain Dr Kwame O. Fordjour. MyNewsGh.com went into the social media page of the …
Read More »Zimbabwe arrests anti-corruption journalist for ‘incitement to violence’
A Zimbabwean journalist known for exposing alleged government corruption appeared in court on Wednesday and is reappearing today alongside an opposition politician with whom he is accused of conspiring to mobilize anti-government protests planned for July 31. Hopewell Chin’ono and Jacob Ngarivhume are charged with “incitement to participate in a …
Read More »Investigative Journalist Arrested Over COVID-19 Exposé
An outspoken journalist who recently exposed alleged government corruption involving coronavirus supplies has been arrested in Zimbabwe. Hopewell Chin’ono live-streamed his arrest on Monday on social media before being told to put his phone down. It is not yet clear why security officials broke into Hopewell Chin’ono’s home and arrested …
Read More »Journalists boycott NPP over Afeku’s bodyguard attack
A group of Photo-Journalists in the Western Region have boycotted all media coverage organized by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the Member of Parliament in the Evalue-Ajomoro-Gwira Constituency Catherine Afeku for what the group says is the unjustified defense of the attack meted out by MP’s personal bodyguard …
Read More »Okese FM Journalist Arrested For Extorting Money From Miners
A Kumasi based Okese FM journalist Isaac Antwi has been arrested by the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM) and the Ministry for local and natural resources (MLNR) task force team led by Staff Sergeant Francis Assibi Abu for extorting money from miners in Ashanti Region. It is believed that …
Read More »Coronavirus restrictions: Journalist, 9 others convicted
The Circuit Court in Accra presided over by Her Honour Mrs Susana Eduful has convicted 10 persons including a journalist to a fine of GHC12,000 for violating the COVID-19 restriction orders. The convicts Yahaya Alhassan, a journalist, Bassarou Moaro, car washing assistant, Alhassan Arafat, driver’s mate, Abdul Gafa, head porter, Emmanuel Anim, …
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