Thirty students drawn from the 10 regions of the country have received awards from President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for their academic excellence in the 2017 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). Out of the 30 awardees, four are students with special needs; two visually impaired and two with hearing impairment. Each student took home a citation, certificate, plaque, a gold medal, ...

Popular Ghanaian singer, MzVee has revealed why a death prophecy will never come to her. Since the demise of dancehall artiste, Ebony, some prophets have claimed to have prophesied her death. In one of the audio clips which captured the prophecy, the head pastor and founder of the True Word Prophetic Fire Ministry, Prophet Nigel Gaise, emphatically stated that Ebony ...

Fiorentina have retired the shirt number worn by Davide Astori, the Italian defender who died on Sunday at the age of 31. Astori’s former club Cagliari, where he spent eight years from 2008, have also retired the number 13 shirt – which he wore at both teams. Capped 14 times by Italy, Astori joined Fiorentina from Cagliari in 2016. An ...

Accra Great Olympics FC Limited and the Ghana Football Association are heading back to court after the former accused the latter of taking an entrenched position in dealing with the protest brought against Elmina Sharks FC. Olympics want the GFA to relegate Elmina Sharks and re-instate them or expand the league to 18 teams to accommodate them. An Accra High ...

The United States will give more than $533 million in humanitarian aid for victims of conflicts and drought in Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan and the West and Central African countries bordering Lake Chad, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday. Tillerson made the announcement at a speech in Virginia before departing for a week-long trip to several African ...

Veteran highlife musician, Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, has accused the media of killing highlife music in Ghana. According to him, the media, particularly radio stations, have neglected Ghana’s indigenous highlife music to play more dancehall. “Radio stations have been part and parcel of our music not being played that much. Because for some few years now, most of the radio stations have ...

An Ethiopian media owner and online activist known for his active use of Facebook has been blocked by the platform. It is not the first time Facebook is blocking Jawar Mohammed’s account on the basis of hyperactivity – “posting too fast,” as they chose to put it. Jawar on Wednesday confirmed via his verified Twitter account that he had been ...

Italian authorities have confirmed that they have opened manslaughter proceedings into the death of Fiorentina captain Davide Astori. The 31-year-old Italy international centre-back died on the night of Saturday into Sunday, on the eve of his team’s Serie A trip to Udinese, which was subsequently postponed. Police are now set to investigate the death, the cause of which is currently ...

Late dancehall artiste Ebony, born Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng, will be buried on March 24, 2018, the family has announced. This is a change from an initial date of March 17 announced by the family of the late singer during the one-week celebration in Dansoman in Accra. The family has also moved the funeral from the Independence Square to the forecourt of ...

Ghana coach Kwesi Appiah has vowed to reward some of the Aduana Stars players with Black Stars call up should they excel in the club’s two-legged clash against ES Setif in the second round of the preliminary stage of the CAF Champions League. The Ghana Premier League champions will host Algerian giants ES Setif at the Nana Agyemang Badu Park ...