Ghanaian Reggae/Dancehall and Afrobeats artiste, Epixode is hoping to soar to the level of Jamaican artiste Kabaka Pyramid. The Jamaican reggae star won the 2023 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album ‘The Kalling.’ He picked up the award at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards premiere ceremony, which took place at Read more…
Efforts to find survivors from a powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey have begun winding down as the death toll climbed to at least 36. The magnitude-6.8 quake shook Turkey’s Elazig province late on Friday, causing buildings to collapse. Some 45 people have been pulled alive from the rubble so far. Read more…
The Deputy Spokesperson for the Ghana Education Service (GES), Mr. Yaw Opoku Mensah has urged Ghanaians, especially the youth, to embrace Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education. Speaking on Joy Learning’s Edu News 360, he said that not only will STEM help combat the rising unemployment rate, but also Read more…
Rescuers are battling heavy rain and snow as they race against the clock to find survivors of a devastating earthquake in south-east Turkey. More than 5,000 people were killed and 15,000 injured in Turkey and over the border in Syria when the quake struck in the early hours of Monday. Read more…
The Police Administration has interdicted Inspector Kennedy Martey Ampofo, stationed at the Sampa District Command in the Bono Region, for professional misconduct. A statement issued and signed by DSP Patrick Okai Kodjoe, the Acting Bono Regional Head of the Police Public Affairs Unit, said Inspector Ampofo allegedly handcuffed one Frank Kofi Adu and Read more…
The Council of Elders of the National Democratic Congress says the party will never forget the contributions of the recently replaced leaders of the party’s Minority Caucus. In a statement on Monday, the party noted that the former Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu; Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak and James Klutse Read more…
Turkish authorities in Hatay are racing against time to find victims of the earthquake, as the sporting director of Super Lig side, Hatayspor, remains unaccounted for. All the players and staff of Hatayspor have been found and are in various degrees of wellness, but for Taner Savut. Until he was Read more…
A candidate for mayor in Ecuador, who was murdered just hours before polls opened, has won the election in the city of Puerto López. Omar Menéndez, 41, was shot dead by gunmen who burst into the room where he was with campaign workers on Saturday. A teenager was also killed Read more…
Professor Godfred Bokpin, Professor of Finance and Economics at the University of Ghana Business School, has once again lashed out at Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, over the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme, saying, Ghana has all the opportunity to avoid defaulting on its bonds. According to him, the International Monetary Fund Read more…
The founder of Engineers and Planners, Ibrahim Mahama, has offered to fund former NSMQ ‘shark’, Ninwie Leonard Lanyeli’s education to enable him complete the doctor of optometry programme at KNUST. Ibrahim Mahama, brother of former President Mahama, will also pay for extra psychiatric care so that ‘Dr’ Leonard’s health can Read more…
Professor of Finance and Economics at the University of Ghana Business, Professor Godfred Bokpin, is warning of recurrence of debt restructuring if individual bondholders and pensioners are force to sign onto the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme. According to him, the nation is creating a governance system whereby governments will mismanage Read more…
The film was founded in a garden shed and quickly became one of the biggest employers in Cambridge. Source: BBC
Forty students of Ejuraman Anglican Senior High School in the Ashanti region have sustained injuries after a make-shift dining structure collapsed on them. Five students have suffered multiple fractures and are under intensive care and the injuries of the remaining students are being managed by medics on campus. The incident Read more…
Viola Davis has become the 18th person to achieve the EGOT – winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award – as the Grammy Awards kick off in Los Angeles. Davis completed her collection by winning best audio book for her autobiography Finding Me. “I wrote this book to honour Read more…
The 65th Grammy Awards took place in Los Angeles overnight, with awards going to everyone from Ozzy Osbourne and Adele to Willie Nelson and Beyoncé. Harry Styles picked up the coveted best album prize, Viola Davis completed an EGOT, and Beyoncé became the most decorated artist in Grammy history. Here Read more…
A group of New Patriotic Party (NPP) members in the Jaman South constituency of the Bono Region have been accused of orchestrating the “skirt and blouse” phenomenon that led to the party losing the parliamentary seat to the NDC in the 2020 elections. According to the constituency secretary, Samuel Obeng Read more…
Desperate to protect their tools from being stolen, tradespeople are considering sophisticated security systems. Source: BBC
Some concerned members of the National Patriotic Party ( NPP) in the Asante Akim Central constituency of the Ashanti region are calling on the party’s leaders to ensure free and fair polling station elections there. According to them, the committee tasked to organise the polling station elections and the erstwhile Read more…
The Treasury and Bank of England will formally start a consultation for the digital currency, on Tuesday. Source: BBC
The Council of Elders of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) says it has resolved the tension created by the recent changes in the party’s leadership in Parliament. In a statement signed by the Chairman of the NDC’s Council of Elders, Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu, the party indicated that it has settled Read more…