Stonebwoy has revealed he has not made a dime from royalties since he started his career in 2009. The BET Award winning Dancehall act says he is yet to receive some funds from GHAMRO. “I’m a member of MUSIGHA but I haven’t received royalties before.” Stonebwoy told JOY FM. “It’s rather unfortunate but who do I talk to. I haven’t ...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg returned to Harvard University—the school he dropped out of to start the pioneering social network—to urge its graduating class to help create a new social safety net in order to allow creative risk-taking. The 33-year-old tech founder of the world’s largest social networking company said he would never have been able to risk leaving the elite ...

With a Champions League campaign to come next season, Manchester United will target quality over quantity in its summer transfer dealings. That’s according to a BBC report that claims manager Jose Mourinho will make “three or four” summer signings including a world-class striker, as he attempts to make United a viable challenger for the Premier League title once again. Here’s ...

As Nigeria faces an economic malaise and President Muhammadu Buhari is out of the country on sick leave, the country’s vice-president has a clear message for civil servants: Stop praying and start working. Yemi Osinbajo, is a Christian pastor himself, and currently the acting president of Africa’s most populous country while Buhari recovers from illness in the U.K. In an ...

Nigerian police are searching for six children abducted from their school on the outskirts of the main city, Lagos. The abductors freed four other children after “profiling” their parents, police said, apparently referring to the fact that they were not regarded as wealthy. The men came through a swampy forest bordering the state-run Model College school, and cut a hole ...

British Ghanaian media entrepreneur Peace Hyde has been named in the top 100 UN list of “Most Influential Persons of African Descent” 2017. The Forbes Africa correspondent joins the likes of Lewis Hamilton, Trevor Noah, Oprah Winfrey and TD Jakes at the inaugural event in New York at the United Nations in September 2017. Hyde is joining the list of ...

A teacher of the Labone Senior High School and her family have been rendered homeless after their four-bedroom house was demolished by officials of the Ledzokuku Krowor Municipal Assembly (LEKMA). The house was pulled down allegedly based on a complaint filed by a neighbor that the property owner has encroached on his land. LEKMA is reported to have carried out ...

Former CAF president Issa Hayatou was on Wednesday appointed by Cameroonian President Paul Biya to chair the board of Cameroon’s National Football Academy (Anafoot). Anafoot, is a public agency dedicated to promoting professional football in Cameroon. The presidential decree read on national radio did not however give any precision on the agency’s mission. The current coach of Cameroon’s national women’s ...

Sir Stanley Matthews remains one of England’s most famous footballers and was known as the Wizard of Dribble. But he was also arguably the first global icon, paving the way for superstars such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. And it all began in Ghana, writes Scott Anthony. Football is the closest thing the planet has to a global popular ...

Dear President Akufo-Addo, I listened to your Energy Minister speak at the National Policy Summit which was held this month. It reminds me of an American Jester’s oxymoronic quotation: “My mind is made up, and facts confuse me”. It also re-echoes a similar quotation in a novel, Alice in wonderland, which says, “Sentence him and find the evidence”. That is ...