Gospel artiste Diana Hamilton has won the coveted Artiste of the Year crown at the 2021 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards. She is the second gospel musician to attain that height. She also won Gospel Artiste of the Year award and other laurels on the night. See the list of winners: Record of the Year Be Your Own Beautiful – Adomaa ...

The Management of the Ho Teaching Hospital in collaboration with ICS Africa has launched a campaign dubbed “Save a Heart Save a Life” project to raise funds for the full operationalization of the hospital’s Cardiothoracic Disease Center. The campaign which was launched at a stakeholder engagement in Ho on Thursday is aimed at raising funds to be used to purchase ...

Member of Parliament for Builsa South Dr. Clement Apaak insists illegal harvesting, transportation, and export of rosewood continues in the country despite its ban and in the face of the Green Ghana agenda of the government. In a statement, Dr. Apaak reiterated that even as the new Minister for Lands and Natural Resources seems poised to lead the effort to ...

A proposal by the South African government to legalise polyandry – when a woman has more than one husband at the same time – has led to howls of protest from conservative quarters. This does not surprise Professor Collis Machoko, a renowned academic on the topic. The objections are “about control,” he told the BBC. “African societies are not ready ...

Twenty-one men have been executed in Somalia’s semi-autonomous state of Puntland after they were convicted of being members of the Islamist militant group al-Shabab. They were sentenced by a military court in Galkayo and shot by a firing squad. State radio said 18 of the men had carried out assassinations and bombings over more than a decade. As they were ...

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has urged Ghanaians to continually pray for the country, especially in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and threats to national security, and guard against attempts to create disunity amongst the citizenry. Dr Bawumia said, “there is more that unites than divides us”. He called on adherents of all religious faiths to work together to ...

The Omanhene of New Juaben Traditional Area in the Eastern Region who is also a former Government statistician, Daasebre Prof Emeritus Oti Boateng, says the 2021 Population and Housing census should provide the country the needed data on Ghana’s development deficit. He said the #fixthecountry agenda is a peaceful democratic call to action that should be embraced with dialogue and ...

Minister for Works and Housing, Francis Asenso-Boakye has revealed that there is an ongoing project by the government to help address the issue of perennial flooding in parts of the country. According to the minister, a flood early warning system is being developed to enhance the flood resilience of communities within the Odaw drainage basin and beyond. He noted that ...

The Minister for Lands and Natural Resources Samuel Abu Jinapor has watered down public expectation in the ongoing clampdown on illegal mining activities popularly known as galamsey. According to the Minister, the menace can never be eradicated. The Damongo MP argued that the ongoing fight is a process and not an event so results will take time to manifest. Answering ...

Mr John Mahama managed the economy better as president than the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia government has done so far, opposition MP Isaac Adongohas claimed. Speaking at a public lecture organised by the Coalition for Restoration on Wednesday, 23 June 2021, the Bolgatanga Central lawmaker said argued: “For a country to grow, GDP is irrelevant if you cannot collect a greater proportion of ...