The Ghana Airports Company Limited (GACL) has refuted reports that Engineers and Planners Company Limited owned by Ibrahim Mahama is indebted to it. In a letter sighted by myjoyonline.com dated May 5, 2017, and signed by the Deputy Managing Director of GACL, Dr J. Okwesie Arthur said:  “Reference to your letter dated May 3, 2017, on the above subject, we wish ...

Users of Guardian Soulmates have been targeted with sexually explicit spam emails after their contact information was accidentally exposed on the dating site. Information from users’ profiles was included in the spam messages. The Guardian newspaper’s publisher, which runs the service, said “human error” was at fault. Guardian News & Media blamed a third-party technology provider for the problem, which ...

The remains of at least 7,000 people may be buried beneath the University of Mississippi, officials estimate. The bodies of the state’s first mental institution – called the Insane Asylum – stretch across 20 acres of campus where administrators want to build. Officials predict that it may cost up to $21m (£16m) to exhume and rebury each body – more ...

Accra Hearts of Oak have ended WAFA’s seven-match unbeaten run in the Premier League after beating them 2:1 in Accra. Skipper Thomas Abbey gave the Phobians an early lead to subdue the spirited academy boys, and playmaker Winful Cobbina sealed the win with a spectacular free kick midway in the second half. The second goal temporarily killed off the little ...

The installation of former Director-General of Ghana Health Service (GHS), Professor Ayemang Badu Akosa as chief of Kwahu-Abene in the Eastern Region last Friday was illegal and a flagrant violation of traditional rules, a chief has said. The Abetifi chief who also doubles as the acting Kwahumanhene, Nana Acheamfuor Asiedu Agyemang, told the media Monday, the enstoolment of the pathologist ...

Parents of the missing Chibok girls are slowly learning if their daughters are among the 82 freed by Boko Haram militants in Nigeria two days ago. The girls’ names were put on Twitter by the president’s office on Sunday. They were flown to the capital Abuja. But in Chibok, their home region in north-eastern Nigeria, not everyone has access to ...

Celebrity blogger, David Mawuli has challenged the credibility of the Forbes Africa ranking of “music money makers” which captures Ghanaian rap icon, Sarkodie. In a post on Facebook, the founder of Ghanafuo.com noted that although Sarkodie finds himself in there, Forbes Africa could not state his networth and even physical properties owned by the rapper. He posted “That Forbes Africa’s ...

Chelsea boss Antonio Conte says second-placed Tottenham “have an advantage” over the Premier League leaders because Mauricio Pochettino has been in charge at White Hart Lane since 2014. Conte is close to winning the title in his first season in English football. His side can move seven points clear with three games left if they beat Middlesbrough on Monday (20:00 ...

Iranian student Reza Parastesh looks so much like his sporting hero Lionel Messi that it almost landed him in jail for disrupting public order this week. So many people came out to take selfies with Parastesh in the western city of Hamedan over the weekend that police rushed him into a station and impounded his car to stop the chaos ...

Suspected armed robbers on a motorbike have shot and killed a man around the TOR traffic light at Tema, StarrFMonline.com has learnt. The deceased and his  colleague, who are believed to be workers of Ferro Fabric at Tema, were reportedly taking money  to the bank on a motorbike, when they were accosted by the robbers Monday afternoon. The robbers, according ...