The US is to tighten sanctions on North Korea and step up diplomatic moves aimed at pressuring the country to end its nuclear and missile programmes. President Donald Trump’s strategy was announced after a special briefing for all 100 US senators. Earlier, the top US commander in the Pacific defended the deployment of an advanced missile defence system in South ...

An assignment worth sharing: The contribution domestic tourism can make on to national tourism policies. According to John Penrose in the Government Tourism Policy note, he acknowledged that Tourism is time and again underrated but forms an extremely important sector of the UK’s economy. It forms the six biggest industries and third-largest export earner. It accounts for almost £90bn direct ...

The entrance of the Builsa North NPP Office, vandalized All is not well in the Builsa North District in the Upper East Region as some youth of the New Patriotic Party have been demonstrating over the nomination of David Afoko, for the position of District Chief Executive. The NPP Youth of the district, led by the Constituency Youth Organiser of ...

An Office at the District Assembly building Calm has returned to Zebilla, the capital of the Bawku West District in the Upper East Region, after some angry youth believed to be supporters and members of the ruling New Patriotic Party in that district, had gone on rampage over the selection of the District Chief Executive nominee. They vandalized items at ...

Rapper Sarkodie missed his mother’s 60th birthday party which happened on Friday, April 21 in Accra. Many asked why he was absent at her mummy, Ewurama Aggrey’s party. Zionfelix.net reported later that the musician was not in the country as at the time the birthday party was ongoing. Sark was in Ireland for a show then. The musician after his ...

Celebrity blogger, David Mawuli has indicated that Dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale is now bigger that the Vodafone Ghana music awards and needs internationally recognized awards rather than “local mafia awards”. There is a crusade by a section of the media calling for a truce between Shatta Wale and the organisers of VGMA in order to get the artiste participate. But ...

So yesterday the Delta Forces were fined GHC2,400? Hmmm, Simpa Panyin, sometimes you disappoint me paaa ooo; the way you have started twisting your waist, some of your initial dances are not matching the rhythm koraa oo, hmmm… Honestly I have in recent times been wondering what the next eight years will look like, still living in Ghana. Our election ...

The Muslim community in Ghana is unhappy about an order from the Gbese Mantse against the burial of Muslims in Accra during next month’s ban on noise making by the Ga Traditional Council. Nii Ayibonte who speaks for Ga chiefs has reportedly directed that no Muslim should be buried when the month long ban comes into force on May 11. ...

The overzealousness on the part of some state institutions to please legislator, Kennedy Agyapong, has yet again brought another embarrassment for the four month old Akufo-Addo administration as his attitude continuously gives the impression that, Ghana is currently being run by a vindictive government only interested in witch-hunting perceived political opponents. Last Monday, came yet another embarrassing moment for the ...

Perhaps we should rethink viral videos as educational material. These wondrous clips are constantly exposing us to new possibilities. For example, I had no idea it was possible to make yourself sneeze. And I definitely had no idea that forcing yourself to do it repeatedly was a thing people do on the internet. This Japanese dude, known only as Tan, ...