Sefah-Twerefour and Wife flanked by Michael Attipoe and Pastor Sefah-Tee Sculpture Works Limited, a leading Ghanaian arts and crafts company in Ghana, over the weekend opened its new gallery at a brief but colorful ceremony. The event, which was held at the forecourt of the gallery located near Mount Olives Presby Church, Tantra Hills, Accra, […]

Dr. Wampah holding Ghana Cedi Dr. Henry Kofi Wampah, Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), has warned economic analysts to desist from wrong projection of the Ghana Cedi. According to him, the wrong projection of the cedi creates panic and causes the cedi to depreciate against major currencies, thereby affecting businesses and the country’s […]

Plans by the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) to construct 200 MW of solar plant in partnership with DCH Solargiga, a subsidiary of China’s Solargiga Energy Holdings Limited at Pigu near Savelugu, has hit a snag. Kampakuya Naa Abdulai Yakubu Andani, the regent of Dagbon and Naa Nantogmah Yakubu, chief of Pigu, are allegedly at each other’s […]

Kwesi Ahwoi The Togolese government has reported that over 17,000 Ghanaians have sought asylum in Togo as a result of intermittent communal conflicts in the Northern Region since 1993. Kwesi Ahwoi, the Interior Minister who made this known at the meet-the press encounter in Accra expressed shock about the report, stating that the matter would […]

R2Bees, one of Ghana’s most popular hiplfe groups, will be the main artistes to watch out for on Friday, August 22 at a musical concert to be held at Armenia Ballroom, 630, 2nd Avenue, New York in the United States. Made up of Paedae da Pralem and Mugeez, the Ghanaian music duo has over the […]

Chief Imam, Sheikh Nuhu Sharubutu (middle) in a pose with Kofi Sarpong (4th right) and others after the donation The awarding-winning Ghanaian gospel music icon, Superintendent Kofi Sarpong, last Friday donated items worth over GH¢3000 to the National Chief Imam, Sheikh  Nuhu Sharubutu in Accra. Kofi Sarpong was accompanied by his manager, Ernest Kwasi Ennin. […]

Stone (middle) in a pose with Okyeame Kwame (right) and Kunta kinta Young and enterprise hiplife artiste, Kwaku Nsiah-Boamah, known in the music scene as Stone of the Bradez fame, has said that he is really excited about his upcoming solo album, ‘The Gifted’, which, according to him, will be released soon. Stone’s upcoming solo album […]

NII Annan Adzor I, Ashaiman Regent, breaking the ground for the commencement of the project while, some members of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and ASHMA look on  THE ASHAIMAN Municipal Assembly (ASHMA) has held a ground breaking ceremony for the construction of maiden Community–Based Health Planning and Service (CHIPS) compound at Tsui-Bleo in Lebanon, […]

A CIRCUIT Court in Obuasi on Monday remanded Nana Agyeman aka Adansi Red, a kingpin of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Adansi-Asokwa constituency of the Ashanti Region, on a charge of sexual assault. Law enforcement officers at Fomena arrested the 50-year-old businessman for allegedly fingering and defiling a 13-year-old girl, who is the […]

A 52-year-old mason, Robert Quaye, would spend 22 years behind bars for defiling a four-year-old girl in an uncompleted building when he pretended he wanted to send her to buy him some bread. This was after an Accra Circuit Court judge, Sedina Agbemava, had found him guilty of the offence of defilement and said she […]

Lordina Mahama “Memory is the fuel that takes you back up the river of time” – Salmon Rushdie (Author of Satanic Verses) I do not know the age of Madam Lordina Mahama, the wife of the President but what I know is that she was born too late to experience what happened when Osagyefo Dr. […]

Victoria Asaba Elobele The Nkroful police in the Western Region have arrested a 50-year-old man for allegedly masterminding the killing of his 48-year-old wife at Tandan in the region. Efuate Amokwaw, a farmer, was arrested together with his son, Osaac Amokwaw, 24 and two others who allegedly took part in the killing. They are Adjei […]

Seven persons have expressed their intention to contest the NPP flagbearership race and have filed their nomination papers accordingly. The NPP Constitution in Article 12 (5) (B) provides that where there are more than five aspirants, the number shall be pruned down to five by a Special Electoral College. There is an on-going “debate” as […]

One of the Ghanaian athletes training hard With the days winding down to the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Ghanaian athletes continue their preparation at their pre-Games camp in Ayrshire, UK. Team Athletics and the other nine sporting disciplines have benefited immensely from the training facilities, accommodation, transportation and the warm welcome by their host, […]

Seidu Bansey KOTOKO STRIKER Seidu Bansey has denied speculations that he has left the team and signed for a foreign team. “I am still at Kotoko. I have not left for any foreign club as is being rumoured around,” he told Metro FM in Kumasi. The Kotoko player said speculations that he had left the […]

Mahama Ayariga(L) and Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa (R) Head of Political Science of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has made a strong appeal to President John Mahama to sack minister of Youth and Sports Minister Mahama Ayariga and deputy Minister for Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa. Branding Mahama Ayariga as fit for propaganda […]

Hon Ayariga with HE Baohong during the courtesy call at the former’s office yesterday New Youth and Sports Minister Mahama Ayariga has appealed to the Chinese government to construct mini stadia in the Upper East, West and the Eastern regions to help promote sports in those areas. The Minister made the request when the Chinese […]

Dale Bolinger had been chatting online to a girl in Germany, the jury at Canterbury Crown Court heard A man with a cannibalism fetish planned to kill a 14-year-old girl with an axe before eating her, a court heard. Nurse Dale Bolinger, 57, used the online Dark Fetish Network (DFN) to discuss beheading and eating […]

Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook and IBM’s CEO Ginni Rometty Apple and IBM have announced a business partnership that will see the two firms co-develop business-centric apps for iPhones and iPads. In addition, IBM will start selling business clients Apple’s mobile devices pre-installed with the new software. The two firms were one-time rivals, with Apple’s […]

Sixty-seven live giant African snails have been seized by US customs agents. The snails, which are prohibited in the US, were found by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) inspectors at Los Angeles International Airport. They arrived from Nigeria and were intended for a person in California, said Lee Harty, a spokeswoman for the customs agency. […]