Kennedy ‘Cappuccino’ Agyapong Kenpong Group of companies, one of the fastest growing business entities in the country, has thrown its financial weight behind the winner of Miss Tourism 2013, Jessica Jamila Kwara. The project, code named ‘Jessi Kwara Foundation’ (JKF), primarily is to help the beauty queen embark on her campaign which is being launched […]

Kaakie Award winning dancehall diva, Kaakie, is billed to perform at the 12th edition of Gabon National Music Fête called “Festival GABAO”. Festival GABAO is a three-day national event which is scheduled for September 11, 2014 to September 13, 2014. She would be performing at the main event on Saturday, September 13 at the Institut Français […]

Fred Nuamah Organisers of the annual Ghana Movie Awards (GMW) event have officially opened nominations for producers in Ghana to submit their works for this year’s event. The awards scheme which commenced in 2010 is aimed at promoting excellence in the Ghana movie industry as well as in the African region. In that vein, the […]

Leila Djansi Director, Leila Djansi, has wrapped up the shoot for the first season of upcoming series, ‘Poisoned Bait’, directed for African online giant, Iroko TV. “I’m wrapped! I’m going back to Los Angeles! My sanctuary! Yoghurt! Ralphs Chicken! Church! My buddies! Suz, Kayla! Karin, Kafui! Kevin! Jesse! Leon! Tracy! Kimberly! Ryan! Netflix! First stop. […]

The late Kofi Ansah Organisers of Ghana Models Awards (GMA) have announced the 2014 edition of the awards ceremony to celebrate hard work in Ghana’s rising fashion and modelling industry. This year’s award will be under the theme, “Talent with Relevance,” and will also serve as a platform to encourage young models in the industry. The […]

Rapper M.anifest, also known as Kwame Ametepe Tsikata, has been selected as one of the judges for this year’s edition of the Vodafone Icons music reality show. The 2013 ‘Best Rapper of the Year’ at the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards will join radio presenter Ms Naa and singer Gena West as the main judges for […]

Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan, EC Boss The Coalition of Domestic Elections Observers (CODEO) has asked the Electoral Commission to restore early special voting for media practitioners and election observers prior to the 2016 general election. It stated that such group of people played indispensable roles that go a long way to ensure the credibility and […]

Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia  Professor J. Atsu Amegashie, Professor of Economics at the University of Guelph, Canada has virtually backed Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia in questioning the credibility of the Ghana Statistical Service’s data on inflation and challenged the Service to publish the data of the actual prices used in computing the inflation figures. In an Article […]

Master speak! Thy Servant heareth; Waiting for Thy gracious word. Longing for Thy voice that cheereth; Master, let it now be heard I am listening, Lord, for Thee What hast Thou to say to me? Methodist Hymnal “You necessarily require a convivial atmosphere with good wine and good food to compensate, if only momentarily, for […]

Kwesi Appiah Black Stars head coach, Kwesi Appiah has made it public that he did not request for a technical advisor as is being speculated in the media. Reports are that the Ghana Football Association went in search of a technical advisor upon Appiah’s request but he has denied vehemently of making such a request. […]

Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen One of the flagbearer hopefuls of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, has brushed aside calls asking him to back out of the party’s presidential primary scheduled for October 18, 2014. Mr Kyerematen, who had 8.01per cent in the NPP’s last Sunday Special Delegates’ Congress, has insisted in a statement […]

The self-confessed witch carrying her spiritual pot, accompanied by Prophet Owusu Agyemang Prempeh A rare incident occurred at Akyem Ajobue in the Akyemmansa District of the Eastern Region last Friday when one Prophet Owusu Agyemang Prempeh cast out the demon of a 67-year-old self-confessed witch, Madam Abena Gyisiwaa, aka Alaba, before a large crowd. The […]

Cholera remains elusive and alarming, teasing officialdom beyond compare. Almost on the verge of an epidemic, officialdom is all but miniscule and ineffective in subduing it as the death toll mounts. One of our editorials last week was a lamentation over the killer disease, against the backdrop of so-called official response. We thought we could […]

SIX PEOPLE were killed and others seriously injured in a road accident yesterday involving a Mercedes Benz Sprinter bus from Winneba in the Central Region to Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital. The accident happened around 1:30 pm at a section of the Anwiankwanta-Assin-Fosu road—between Bogyawe and Sanfo-Aduam communities in the Bekwai Municipality—an eyewitness, Nana Poku […]

Justice Yaw Apau A Professor of Marine and Fishery Science at the University of Ghana has told the Judgement Debt Commission that the government cannot continue to overlook communities displaced by the floods in the Volta Basin area. Prof Patrick Kwabena Ofori Danso said the construction of the Akosombo Dam in the 1960s brought floods […]

FOUR SPIRITUALISTS in the Eastern Region who allegedly defrauded some unsuspecting persons of various sums of money totalling GH¢86,394.00 under the guise of multiplying their money for them, have been arrested by the police. They are Nana Yaw Sofehu, 32, aka Togbui Shetor, resident of Kukurantumi; Farouk Alhassan, 32, aka Okomfo Anokye Kitewa, resident of […]

When the NPP returned from its Congress in Tamale in April 2014, I wrote an article titled, “The Threat to NPP 2016 Victory”, and wrote about a sinister motive by some people within the party to sabotage Nana’s bid to contest the presidential primary.  I was bombarded with insults and accused of feeding the NDC […]

Alhaji Mustapha Oti Boateng The exploits of Alhaji Mustapha Oti Boateng, CEO of Chocho Industries, a plant medicine and herbal-based cosmetics production company based in Suhum in the Eastern, have attracted the attention of academia. US-based Day Spring Christian University, Mississippi, last Saturday awarded him, together with other dignitaries, an honorary doctorate degree in a well-attended graduation […]

Abraham Kwame Oyoko Baah and the late Rosemond Nyampong The Tema Magistrate Court has threatened to acquit and discharge Abraham Kwame Oyoko Baah, the 27-year-old auto-electrician who is standing trial for allegedly murdering Rosemond Nyampong, a 32- year-old staff of the Stanbic Bank who was killed in her residence at Baatsona, off the Spintex Road, Accra, last year. For the fourth consecutive time, the court […]