Tag Archives: TAKES

New Twitter boss Elon Musk has disbanded the microblogging platform’s board of directors and taken sole control, according to a securities filing on Monday. All nine members of the board of directors have given up their posts. Musk appointed himself the only new director so far. After months of back …

Investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, has insisted that its 2019 documentary dubbed “galamsey fraud part 1” was nothing but the true representation of what transpired. In a statement dated October 7, the owner of Tiger Eye PI said the documentary which implicated former secretary to the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining …

Investigative journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni, believes a meeting called by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to renew the fight against illegal small-scale mining, galamsey, was a joke. He opined in a social media post that instead of picking the Lancaster Hotel in the heartland of the Ashanti Kingdom for the meeting, a concert …

Shatta Bandle is officially off the single’s market, GhanaWeb can confirm. The dimunituve and social media star tied the knot with his baby mama whom he has two kids with, yesterday, September 17, 2022 in a grand ceremony. The couple who welcomed their second child last week, topped their celebration …

Charles III swears an oath as he is proclaimed King after the death of Queen Elizabeth II was formally announced by the Accession Council. The swearing-in ceremony is being held at St James’s Palace. The Queen died at Balmoral Castle in Scotland Thursday afternoon. Her death comes after the BBC …

Oliver Mawuse Barker-Vormawor, one of the conveners of #FixTheCountry Movement, has chastised Prof Steve Hanke, a Professor of Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins University, for claiming that the only option to fix Ghana’s economic mess is for the central bank to install a currency board. Describing the 79-year-old Professor as …

The new tariffs for utility services announced by the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) will take effect from today, Thursday, September 1, 2022. The new tariffs include a 27.15% increase in electricity and 21.55% increase in water. The utility service providers had requested for drastic upward review of tariffs to …

Adakabre Frimpong Manso, the host of ‘Me Man Nti’ on Neat FM has mounted a spirited defence of under-fire Council of State Member, Eunice Jacqueline Buah Asomah-Hinneh who has been implicated by the Special Prosecutor for some alleged corrupt activities involving her company Labianca Company Limited. Adakabre holds that Eunice …

Rev Dr Stephen Yenusom Wengam, Lead Pastor of Cedar Mountain Chapel – a branch of Assemblies of God Church in Accra has been elected General Superintendent of Assemblies of God, Ghana. Rev Wengam’s elevation happened during the church’s 30th biennial General Council Meeting which was attended by more than three …

Ghanaian artiste, Black Sherif, has accomplished another milestone after taking over a digital billboard on the streets of New York. A video of the billboard shared by blogger, Zionfelix, captures excerpts of Black Sherif’s performance of his ‘Kwaku the Traveller song that has become a hit since its release. This comes after …