A fire broke out at a five-storey building in Johannesburg early on Thursday morning. Screengrab via @CityofJoburgZA/ X At least 73 people have died and more than 50 others were injured after a fire broke out at a building in the Johannesburg CBD on Thursday morning. Johannesburg Emergency Management Services …
Read More »All about the first Black billionaire who rebuilt his wealth after costly divorce settlement
When asked who the first Black billionaire was, few people mention Robert Louis Johnson (Robert Johnson), but they are quick to point Mansa Musa, a 14th-century West African ruler who reigned over the kingdom of Mali more than four centuries before the U.S. Congress on April 2, 1792, Congress passed …
Read More »Resolving the current economic crisis: The need for political settlement
The national economic situation is grimmer than most Ghanaians know it to be. Yes, most of us know that prices of everything have quadrupled over the last one year and the cost of living has hit the roof. We know that the cedis, the national currency has witnessed its fastest …
Read More »Thieves must cough up loot – Kofi Bentil defends state use of ‘settlement’ in Ato Essien case
Kofi Bentil, Senior Vice President of IMANI Africa, has defended the state’s resort to entering a settlement with founder of Capital Bank, William Ato Essien, in the matter of the collapse of the bank. Bentil holds that Section 35 of the Courts Act that deals with settlement between the state …
Read More »Court orders Kanye West to pay Kim Kardashian GHC2.8m every month as child support
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian reached a divorce settlement on Tuesday, NBC News reported. Per the details of the agreement, the rapper and fashion designer will pay his ex-wife $200,000 monthly in child support, court documents reveal. Kanye, who now goes by the name Ye, married Kardashian, 42, in 2014. …
Read More »Sammy Gyamfi begged NAPO for out of court settlement but rejected terms – Lawyer
Nana Agyei Baffuor Awuah, one of the lawyers for Matthew Opoku-Prempeh, the Member of Parliament for Manhyia South has confirmed a report that his client had agreed to an out-of-court settlement on his defamation suit against the National Democratic Congress’ Sammy Gyamfi. The lawyer, speaking on Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana …
Read More »Two die, 64 homeless as fire rages in Cape Town informal settlement
A man and a woman died in a Cape Town informal settlement fire on Saturday which destroyed 15 homes and left 64 people homeless. City of Cape Town mayoral committee member for safety and security JP Smith said the alarm was raised at 7.26am about a fire at The Gatjie …
Read More »Settlement residents mount roadblock to protest deplorable roads
Aggrieved residents of Agric Settlement, suburb of Canteen in the West Gonja Municipal of the Savannah Region have mounted a road barricade in protest of deplorable road network leading to the community. The residents say there was an urgent need to fix the deplorable road network which has since become …
Read More »UTAG snubs NLC’s invitation for out-of-court settlement
The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has declined the invitation from the National Labour Commission (NLC) for a meeting on Monday, February 7 to settle the current impasse that has seen the teachers on strike for weeks. The Labour Division of the Accra Circuit Court, presided over by Justice Frank Rockson Aboadwe, on …
Read More »Is Ghana safe for settlement? – Ghanaian’s in diaspora quizzes
Ghana, the first black African nation to gain its independence from colonial rule, celebrated 64 years of independence on 6th March 2021. On 6 March 1957, Ghana’s founding president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, declared: “at long last, Ghana your beloved country is free forever” to the excitement of men, women and …
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