AngloGold Ashanti plc and the University of Witwatersrand (Wits University) have announced a bespoke scholarship project that will benefit about 200 eligible students over the next five to seven years, the first 68 of whom have been selected to begin their studies in 2024. The R87.5 million Wits AngloGold Ashanti Legacy Scholarship Endowment will offer comprehensive funding and support over ...

Black Stars coach, Otto Addo, remains optimistic of Ghana’s qualification for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) despite a shaky start. Ghana have gone past two games with just a point, having lost their opening game against Angola in Group F, in Kumasi and managed a 1-1 draw against Niger. Ghana next face Sudan in a double-header in October ...

Kwabena Kwabena’s manager, Nana Poku Ashis, has disclosed that some people accepted money in the name of his artiste after he composed a campaign song for the New Patriotic Party in 2016. Ashis, addressing the issue of whether Kwabena Kwabena charged an amount for the song, emphatically stated that few friends of the musician who were party members took money ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has accused the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government of preventing the Electoral Commission of Ghana (EC) from being an impartial electoral body. Speaking in an interview on TV3 on September 10, 2024, the Speaker of Parliament indicated that some of the appointments made by the government to the leadership of the commission have contributed ...

The organisers of the Ghana Music Awards UK have officially released the nominees list and categories for this year’s edition of the awards at a ceremony held at YAYA La Parisienne in Labone, ahead of the main event on October 19, 2024 in London. The nominees unveiling ceremony, which was strictly by invitation, was attended by a number of personalities ...

Singer-songwriter and record producer Kuami Eugene has announced his first single after exiting Lynx Entertainment. On the cover art, shared on the musician’s X, Tuesday, September 10, 2024, it was indicated the song, Belinda, would be released via Rock Star Records and Road Clear Music Group. Rock Star, for years, has been Kuami Eugene’s self-proclaimed appellation and the name he works ...

Renowned broadcaster Kwami Sefa Kayi has said President Akufo-Addo has not been able to fight illegal mining, popularly known as galamsey, despite the devastation to water bodies and farmlands because he’s being haunted by memories of his near loss of the 2020 general election. During a panel discussion on Peace FM on Monday, September 9, 2024, Sefa Kayi said the ...

New Patriotic Party (NPP) running mate Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh has told Ghanaian farmers that their lives and future will be secured only when the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) remains in office. Dr Opoku Prempeh, popularly known as Napo, said it is only the NPP administration that has the interest and well-being of farmers, especially cocoa farmers, at heart. ...

Former Deputy Sports Minister and New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the Asuogyaman constituency, Pius Enam Hadzide, has openly acknowledged for the first time that he facilitated the travel of some Ghanaians to Australia during the 2018 Commonwealth Games. This admission comes amidst his current campaign for parliamentary office, where he promises to provide similar opportunities for his constituents ...

Highlife musician, Kofi Kinaata, received high praise from the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, during his speech at the General Conference of the Ghana Bar Association. The Asantehene referenced Kinaata’s hit song ‘Susuka’, specifically the phrase ‘Obi nya wayɛ’, meaning “someone wishes they were like you”, to emphasise the importance of appreciating Ghana’s achievements despite its challenges. Otumfuo noted that ...