Best New Artiste of the Year at the 2017 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards Fancy Gadam, received a heroic welcome to his base, in Tamale. Born Ahmed Mujahid Bello, Fancy Gadam, was met at the Airport by Hundreds of fans who were waiting to welcome him home for making the town proud. Gadam beat Medikal, Nii Funny, Article Wan, Feli Nuna, Ebony, Rudebowy ...

The shareholders of Accra Great Olympics FC have formally appointed Swedish Tom Marcos Christian Strand as the new Head Coach of the club and will be assisted by two coaches Godwin Attram and Stephen Botchway. Strands appointment was part of a five-point Rescue Plan proposed by the Global Village Group, following the poor performance of the team in the ongoing ...

Africans trying to reach Europe are being sold by their captors in “slave markets” in Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says. Victims told IOM that after being detained by people smugglers or militia groups, they were taken to town squares or car parks to be sold. Migrants with skills like painting or tiling would fetch higher prices, the ...

Ghana is the fourth best place to invest in Africa, according to a report by RMB Global Markets Research. According to the report, Ghana beat countries such as Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Cote d’ Ivoire and Algeria as it placed among the top 10 countries on the continent. The West African oil producing nation also ranked fourth as the country to ...

August 2015, I found myself in the beautiful Central African Republic of Rwanda. It was my first time of visiting any other African country other than the one I reside in. As you can imagine I was excited but not only because of the new experience but for the awesome camp I would be participating in for three short weeks. ...

Tigo Ghana’s flagship Corporate Social Responsibility programme, Shelter for Education, has partnered with Raising Readers Foundation, a non-governmental organisation that is committed to encouraging children to read. At an official ceremony in Accra to launch the initiative, the CEO for Tigo, Roshi Motman, was optimistic that together with Raising Readers Foundation, the Tigo’s Shelter for Education team would be able ...

The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has described as lenient the punishment issued by a Kumasi Circuit Court to the 13 Delta Force members for escaping from police custody. According to the MP, the 13 members should have been given a harsh sanction that would have served as a deterrent to others. “If you look at ...

Shell has admitted for the first time it dealt with a convicted money-launderer when negotiating access to a vast oil field in Nigeria. It comes after emails were published showing Shell negotiated with Dan Etete, who was later convicted of money laundering in a separate case. Shell and an Italian oil company paid $1.3bn (£1bn) to the Nigerian government for ...

Two adults and a child have been killed in a shooting in a classroom of a primary school in San Bernardino, California, police say. The suspect shot and killed his estranged wife, a teacher, and wounded two children who were behind her, one of whom died of his wounds. He then turned the gun on himself, police said. Police chief ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo would not be contesting the 2020 polls, editor of the Al Hajj Newspaper, Alhaji Bature Iddrissu has said. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo became President on his third attempt at the presidency. He failed to win the 2008 and 2012 elections. In 2016, he polled 53.85 percent of the valid votes cast to become Ghana’s fifth ...