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The Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC) has recovered only GH₵90 million of the GH₵204 million disbursed over the last five years, representing 45 per cent payment. Hajia Abibata Shanni Mahama Zakariah, the Chief Executive Officer of the Centre speaking to the Ghana News Agency in Bolgatanga on the sidelines …

Popular Nollywood actress, Kemi Afolabi has tearfully revealed that her doctor has told her that she has five more years to live, out of which she has already spent one. The 43-year-old made this known in a recent interview with media personality, Chude Jideonwo, where she also disclosed that she …

Rapper Kwaw Kese believes that Ghana has failed its citizens as the country turns 65 after independence in 1957. To Kwaw Kese for a country as old as Ghana, there should not be lack some basic needs such as good schools and hospitals. But that cannot be said about the …

Former Black Stars player, Kwadwo Gyamfi-Poku ‘Mahala’, has said he was better than Black Stars’ all-time top scorer, Asamoah during his peak years. Poku enjoyed good spells with Asante Kotoko and King Faisal in the early 2000s, which he believes he was better than Asamoah Gyan, who within that period, played …

A 26-year-old church drummer who had sex with a six-year-old girl at a church office at Laterbiokoshie, a suburb of Accra, has been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court. Nathaniel Ayiku pleaded not guilty to defilement. The court presided over by Mrs Christina Cann, however, found …

The history of Ghana can never be told without the story of how three war veterans in the colonial era were shot and killed at the Christianborg Castle Crossroads on February 28, 1948. The three World War II veterans were; Sergeant Adjetey, Corporal Attipoe and Private Odartey Lamptey. Today, February …

Tomorrow, February 28 Ghana will mark the 74th anniversary of the 28th February Christianborg Crossroads shooting incident, which led to the killing of three war veterans in the colonial era. The landmark incident, which occurred in 1948, led to the killing of Sergeant Adjetey, Corporal Attipoe and Private Odartey Lamptey. …

Two rhino poachers from Mozambique have each been sentenced to 23 years behind bars in the Skukuza Regional Court in Mpumalanga. The South African National Parks (SANParks) welcomed the jail terms. Americo Mathonsi,59 and Michael Chauke, 57, were arrested in the Satara section of the Kruger National Park (KNP) on …

A man was handed a 10-year jail sentence after he was found guilty of holding a six-week-old baby against the dry ice in his refrigerator. Two years of the sentence was suspended for five years by the Pretoria High Court. According to lobby group AfriForum, Judge Mokhine Mosopa handed down …

A security coordinator at the Metro Mass Transit Company Limited Lawal Fuseina has been sentenced to serve a 10-year prison term for blackmailing his former Managing Director (MD) Mr Bennet Aboagye. The Circuit Court in Accra convicted and sentenced him after he was found guilty for charges including unlawful entry …