Hiplife legend, Obrafuor, has expressed his undying support for fellow Hiplife artiste Sarkodie. The award-winning artiste made this remark in an interview on the Friday edition of GHToday with host, Eli Kharis. Asked who his favorite rapper is, the Execution Entertainment leader stated; “they all know I am biased when it comes to Sarkodie.” But he also expressed his love ...

About 60 per cent of Ghana’s water bodies are polluted, with many in critical condition, the Water Resources Commission (WRC) has said. Mr. Ben Ampomah, Executive Secretary of the Commission at a workshop in Ho, said the polluted water bodies were mostly in the south-western parts of the country, where illegal mining activities (galamsey) were widespread. He was addressing a ...

Dundo – Hundreds of people from Democratic Republic of Congo’s central Kasai region have been pouring into neighbouring Angola every day for more than a month to escape violence plaguing their homes. Some 20 000 people who have fled are now in or around three holding camps in Dundo in Angola’s far north, living in increasingly dire conditions, according to ...

Tension has engulfed the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra as angry traders clash with officials of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly and police. It is unclear what triggered the chaos but Starr News’ Peter Owusu who is at the scene reports that the Police are firing warning shots to disperse the mob. Reports however suggest a trader has been brutally beaten ...

Chelsea have won the Premier League title after defeating West Bromwich Albion 1-0 at the Hawthorns. A late goal from substitute Michy Batshuayi gave the Blues three points, which mean they hold an unassailable 10-point advantage over Tottenham. It is the sixth time that the Stamford Bridge side have won England’s top flight and the fourth time since 2004-05 that ...

Samuel Kwasi Kyei Darkwah, the Akwatia branch manager of GN Bank Ghana Limited, has appeared before an Accra circuit court for allegedly stealing over GH¢2 million belonging to the bank. The accused is in the dock alongside one Selassie Awudi Solomon, a real estate developer. The two, according to the prosecutor, ASP Stephen K. Adjei, conspired with one Kenneth Obina, ...

Harare – Zimbabwean opposition parties have rubbished results by a new survey that claimed that most Zimbabweans still put their trust in President Robert Mugabe, 93, as the country’s leader. The mass survey carried out by Afrobarometer, polled 1 200 adults in Zimbabwe’s urban and rural areas in January and February. It said that at least 64% of Zimbabweans indicated ...

Kinshasa – One person has been confirmed dead from Ebola in an outbreak in a remote corner of northern Democratic Republic of Congo as health authorities look into a total of nine suspected cases, including two other deaths, the country’s health minister and the World Health Organisation said on Friday. One case of the hemorrhagic fever was confirmed out of ...

Kano – Boko Haram late on Friday released a video claiming to show the Chibok schoolgirls who refused to be rescued as part of a recent swap deal with the Nigerian government. In the three-minute video, a woman who claims to be Maida Yakubu, one of the schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in April 2014, is seen wearing a black ...

Ghana and West Ham United’s record signing Andre Ayew will be looking for some consistency when his West Ham United take on Liverpool in a crashing English Premier League game. The Ghanaian has been back his best in the last five games and has even been played in his preferred behind the main striker role. He got a lucky assist ...