Reggae cum dancehall artiste Shatta Wale has express worry over the media incessant practice of twisting his words. According to the music personality, anytime he grants an interview, the media ends up twisting his words. The “Dancehall King” thus stated that henceforth he will not grant any interview unless he is ‘handsomely’ rewarded financially. “I will not grant any interview ...
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Burna Boy banned from performing in US and Canada?
Nigerian musical star Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, popularly called Burna Boy, has been reported banned from performing at events in the United State. The report, according to sources, said that Burna Boy was banned from performing at any event, venue or any form of recording anywhere in USA & Canada by US Supreme Federal Court in New York unless he settles ...
Read More »Gov’t moves to address research shortfalls with new fund
The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation has revealed plans to set up a fund to address financing challenges of researchers in universities and other institutions. Sector Minister, Professor Kwabena Frimpong- Boateng, says a bill to that effect is currently being drafted for subsequent passage into law. “We have to create a vehicle that will allow this fund to be ...
Read More »President Akufo-Addo can learn a lot from taxi drivers in Ghana
Of course there are varieties of ways people/decision makerscan use to size upunfolding eventsin an attempt to understand and if necessary devise action plan(s) to address those critical emerging issues. From personal observation,one of the most effective means to connect, gauge, or figure out an unfiltered mood of the Ghanaian society isto ridein taxi quite often. Perhaps every Ghanaian knows ...
Read More »Army worms attack: 18,200 hectares of maize farm destroyed
The devastation caused by fall armyworms has affected 18,219.07 hectares of maize farms as at Friday May 26, 2017. So far, nine regions have been affected with farmers losing hundreds of thousands of Cedis of investment. Most of the affected farmers have abandoned their farms as there is nothing left to be salvaged. The pests were detected, last year, and ...
Read More »GCNet, WESTBLUE impasse mustn’t be politicised – Akoto Osei
The Minister for monitoring and evaluation Dr. Anthony Osei Akoto has for the de-politicisation of discussions on the seeming impasse between IT firms WestBlue Consulting and the Ghana Community Network Services Limited, GCNet. There is uneasy calm and a turf war between the two entities especially since the inception of WestBlue, who are technical partners of the Customs Division of ...
Read More »Why won’t we be poor? When create, loot and share is the new norm
Ghana is a nation where government workers of all shades (civil servants, public servants, politicians and even private business people) have discovered avenues of enriching themselves unashamedly to the extent that some have become dollar millionaires. Some have even become richer than the country itself, flaunting their wealth without fear of prosecution. If not, how does one explain the following? ...
Read More »BA flight disruption at Heathrow set for third day
British Airways passengers are facing a third day of disruption at Heathrow as the airline deals with the impact of a worldwide computer system crash. BA says it aims to operate a full long-haul schedule and a “high proportion” of short-haul services after the outage caused by a power failure. So far on Monday, 13 short-haul flights at Heathrow have ...
Read More »Sakawa, porn causing abysmal BECE performance – GES Director
The poor performance of students at the basic education level has become a major source of concern to many stakeholders in Northern Region who are calling for immediate solution to the phenomenon. At the first ever Regional Education Forum organized by the Northern Regional League of Youth Association in collaboration with Youth Empowerment for Live (YEfL) held in Tamale, the ...
Read More »I am not a lesbian – Former Big Brother housemate
Former Big Brother Africa housemate, Beverly Osu, has dismissed rumours that she is a lesbian. In an interview with Sunday Scoop, Osu who some time ago posted a picture of her kissing another girl, stated that “people would be commenting on issues they don’t have the facts of”. “Ordinarily, I don’t even respond to things like this because I am ...
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