Afro Moses THE 2014 edition of Celebrating Accra Arts Festival (CAAF), which is set to flood the city with diverse performances, will on Sunday March 2 take off with a book launch at the Artistes Alliance Gallery in Accra. H.E. Margit Thomsen, the Danish Ambassador in Accra will launch a book titled ‘Kumasi Realism – […]

Apostle Ebenezer Boahene APOSTLE EBENEZER Boahene has been inducted into office as the fifth chairman of the Christian Divine Church at a service conducted at the John Taylor Temple in Tarkwa. Pastors Peter Boadu and Paul Danso were also inducted into office as the new deputy chairman and general secretary respectively of the church. In […]

Joshua Cclottey Former IBF Welterweight World Champion Joshua Clottey said a golden opportunity has presented itself for him to rewrite his name in gold in the international boxing arena. The Ghanaian boxer described the forthcoming encounter with Anthony Mundine in their WBA International bout at Newcastle Entertainment Centre in Australia on April 2, as a […]

The Kenpong Group of companies on Thursday honoured the Gh¢20,000 pledge it made to the 1963 year Group of retired Black Stars players at the Studios of peace fM in Accra. The gesture was in support of an initiative put together by the Peace Power Sports team to reward the 1963 Year-Group, winners of the […]

A PROFESSIONAL female nurse had to undergo emergency surgery to stitch her tongue after her rival bit it off during a savage fight at Adansi Akrokerri in the Ashanti region, a court has heard. Patricia Mensah, an unemployed woman resident at Tutuka in Obuasi, was said to have clamped her jaws around the tongue of […]

The National executives of the Millennium Supporters Union of Ghana (MISUGHA) have made a passionate appeal to government to help airlift their members to rally support for the Black Stars in the Brazil 2014 World cup. Rolling out the Union’s itinerary for the year in a press conference at Nima on Thursday, Alhaji Sambo, General […]

NINETEEN-YEAR old Llyod Osei Baffour, a former student of Prempeh College, was adjudged the winner of the Multichoice, DSTv –Eutelsat Star Awards in the poster category for Africa at a Gala Dinner held at Golden Tulip Hotel in Accra, recently. Ms Angel Gabriela of Uganda emerged second runner up in the category, while for the […]

THE AUTHORITIES at the University of Ghana have announced that they will comply with the directive from government to suspend the collection of tolls from motorists who use their roads. The authorities stated that they were suspending the tolls as a result of a promise by government to pay the GH¢8 million the university had […]

THe TemA Development Corporation (TDC) has demolished a church auditorium being put up by Bishop Daniel obinim, the Founder and General overseer of the International God’s Way Church in Tema, Greater Accra region. According to information, the TDC taskforce visited the church at Community 9, Tema on Thursday and demolished the hall, which was under […]

Scenes at the accident spot Eight Vehicles were consumed in an early morning fire when a fuel tanker went up in flames after it had been hit by a trailer at the Suame roundabout in the Ashanti regional capital of Kumasi yesterday. The DAF CF trailer, which was fully loaded with iron rods, crashed into […]

Felix Nyarko-Pong, CEO, UniBank The Official bank of the Black Stars, UniBank Ghana limited, has rolled out a special World cup promotion codenamed ‘let’s Go Brazil’ ahead of the Summer World cup at its Kokomlemle branch in Accra. A minimum deposit of GH¢100 entitles the account holder to an Ecoupon (Reference Number) to enter the […]

The Season V contestants TV3 CHILD reality show dubbed “Talented Kidz” was last Sunday launched at the studios of the network in Accra during the telecast which was attended by a very large and enthusiastic audience. Twenty eight contestants, including one selected for the first time from Bolgatanga in the Upper East and another from […]

ACCRA IS passing through a debilitating water crisis. The streets in the densely populated areas of the city show a constant stream of water-searching residents, most of them women and children. The time that is wasted in the sometimes endless search for the all-important fluid, has not been helpful to both the school children and […]

IN less than two months’ time, the world will be marking the 20th anniversary of the worst genocide that has been seen in Africa since the end of colonialism, namely, the Rwanda pogrom that began on April 6, 1994. This genocide was so horrendous that it has irretrievably robbed every African of part of his […]

NANA ADDO Dankwah Akufo-Addo, the 2012 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is not in a hurry to quit politics, as it is being speculated by some self-styled media analysts. Kow Essuman, an aide to Nana Addo, dismissed claims that the NPP flagbearer for 2012 had bowed out of the upcoming flagbearership contest […]

BELOW: Mawuena consoling the widow, Kwansema at the memorial service held for Komla Dumor at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Accra yesterday HE LATE Komla Afeke Dumor, a Ghanaian BBC broadcaster who died of cardiac arrest in his London home on Saturday January 18, this year will be buried today. Komla’s funeral and burial service […]

The hen coop. INSET: One of the victims and the grandmother A 48-year-old woman by name Kumatu Tafa, has been nabbed by the Akyem oda police for allegedly caging her two grandchildren in a hen coop for eight months and serving them food and water in a chamber pot. The woman, together with her grandchildren, […]

Chief Imam praying for the Asantehene at the Manhyia Palace THE MANHYIA Palace, the official seat of the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, was temporarily turned into a mosque on Friday morning when scores of Muslim clerics in the country, led by Sheikh Osman Nuhu Sharubutu, stormed the place. Sheikh Nuhu Sharubutu fervently prayed for […]

Seth Terkper THE FIRST Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Ebo Barton Odro, was compelled to adjourn parliamentary proceedings yesterday when the Minority members walked out of the chamber and called for adjournment as there was no quorum; and described the Finance Minister as incompetent. The move, which was secretly backed by some Majority members, was to […]