Gospel musician, Joes Mettle’s Artiste of the Year win seems to be creating some confusion as to whether his win was a record setting one. Joe Mettle at the wee hours of Sunday, April 9 beat E.L, Sarkodie, Stonebwoy, MzVee, and Medikal to claim the bragging rights as Ghana’s topmost artiste for 2016. The ‘Onwanwani’ hit singer, therefore, holds the ...

A Circuit Court in the Ashanti regional capital, Kumasi has refused bail to the eight members of pro-NPP group Delta Force who stormed a court there last week and freed suspects. This was after counsel for the accused prayed the court to grant them bail. The lawyers said their clients were nowhere near the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly Court, therefore, could ...

Ghanaian giants Asante Kotoko have named their former player Godwin Ablordey as the interim coach of the Kumasi-based club following the sacking of Zdravko Logarusic. The Croat was fired on by the club’s management on Sunday night two hours after their goalless draw with Ebuasua Dwarfs in a league match. The contract of Logarusic was terminated after an emergency Management ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has served notice that it will soon petition the international community and the diplomatic corps to blacklist the honourable Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin North Constituency, Kennedy Agyapong. They want a travel ban to be placed on the maverick politician for allegedly sponsoring terrorism in the country. They see Hon. Agyapong as being ...

Spanish police have arrested a Russian programmer for alleged involvement in “hacking” the US election, Spanish press reports have said. Pyotr Levashov, arrested on 7 April in Barcelona, has now been remanded in custody. A “legal source” also told the AFP news agency that Mr Levashov was the subject of an extradition request by the US. The request is due ...

An anti-galamsey taskforce in the Aowin District of the Western Region are accusing the Police of intimidating them in a bid to prevent them stop their fight against illegal mining activities in the area. According to the taskforce, the police who have consistently failed to support their efforts, also released persons arrested for illegal mining in the area. The Queen ...

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has gone to the founder, former President Jerry John Rawlings, to plead with him to come back to the party and help it to regain power. The NDC, whilst in office, wrote off its charismatic founder but after the humiliating defeat in the 2016 general elections, it is now persuading him to come back ...

The leadership of a pro-New Patriotic Party Youth group in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region, “Atlantic Bases” has distanced itself from a list of Pro-New Patriotic Party Youth groups being tagged as vigilante groups terrorising Ghanaians in the name of the ruling Party. According to a leading member of the Atlantic Bases, Sanusi Issah, the group is ...

Former Chief Executive Officer of Kumasi Asante Kotoko Jarvis Peprah has commended the sacking of Zdravko Lugarusic, claiming it as a timely intervention. The staunch Kotoko enthusiast bewailed the side’s poor performance in the league and holds that the coach was ultimately to be held responsible for those results. In an interview with Happy FM’s Anopa Bosuo Sports, the finance ...

Sudanese side Al Khartoum have given their Ghanaian coach Kwesi Appiah a rousing farewell as he departs to coach the Ghana national team. Appiah was lifted shoulder high by players and officials of the Khartoum-based club after the weekend’s league game. The team used the public gesture to express their gratitude to the coach for moulding them into a winsome ...