Author Archives: larryehu

StarTimes gets GPL broadcast rights

The Ghana Football Association has awarded television rights for the Ghana Premier League and the FA Cup to StarTimes Ghana. A statement by the FA stated that StarTimes emerged winners of the competitive bidding process after the GFA accepted their offer, which was the best among other bids. StarTimes will sign a five-year agreement with the GFA worth $5.25m US ...

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The bus driver who saved passengers from Islamist attackers

“I am not a hero,” said softly spoken Raymond Juma. The bus driver was speaking after his actions saved his 47 passengers from a militant attack in the east of Kenya. “My passengers are like my mothers, my brothers and sisters. “I just did what anyone else would have done to save myself and those I love,” he told the ...

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EC replies opposition political parties

The Electoral Commission has once again denied the allegation that it intends to rig this year’s election in favour of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP). “We have no intention of rigging the election; we make sure we involve all the political parties in everything we do; there is transparency in our processes”, Communications Officer of the Commission, Sylvia Annor ...

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Akufo-Addo begged for power too – Bantama MP justifies kneeling

The Member of Parliament for Bantama Daniel Okyem Aboagye who has been mocked for kneeling before the Ashanti regional chairman of the NPP has justified his actions. The MP at a meeting with the constituency, polling station executives and the electoral area coordinators reportedly knelt down before Bernard Antwi-Boasiako, otherwise known as Chairman Wontumi, to declare his constituency as one ...

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We’re sorry but you lied – Adom-Otchere tells Rawlings

Paul Adom-Otchere, host of Good Evening Ghana on Metro TV, has discredited former President Jerry John Rawlings’s speech during the commemoration of the 31st December, 1981 coup d’état in Winneba. Rawlings had said that during the reign of General Kutu Acheampong, he tried investigating some people who were plunged into unimaginable corruption but the lead investigator was killed. Paul, who ...

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Police arrest Kintampo kidnapper in Yendi

Police have arrested Mahamadu Fulani, a herdsman who allegedly took a 10-year-old boy from Kintampo and demanded a ransom of twenty Ghana Cedis (Ghc 20,000.00) before his release, in Yendi. A police report said on 6th January 2020 at Kintampo in the Bono East Region, the suspect took the boy along with cattle belonging to his father to the grazing ...

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‘Ill-informed’ Rawlings distorting facts on Avoke’s dismissal – UEW

Authorities at the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) have described as unfortunate the call by former President, Jerry John Rawlings for the reinstatement of some dismissed staff at the university. The call which was made at the 38th Commemoration of the 31st December Military Uprising held in Winneba, according to the authorities is ill-informed, unfair and borne out of distorted ...

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Netflix rival aims to change how we watch shows on phones

A new video-streaming service that limits the length of its programmes and shows to bite-sized chunks will launch in the US in April. Quibi also keeps the action full-frame however viewers hold their phones. It will feature exclusive entertainment content made by the likes of Steven Spielberg, Bill Murray and Reese Witherspoon. And unlike Netflix, it will also screen specially-made ...

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