American talk show host, television producer, actress and author, Oprah Winfrey has eulogized Ghanaian filmmaker, Blitz Bazawule. After co-directing Beyoncé’s ‘Black Is King’ visual album, Blitz Bazawule has landed another deal to direct Warner Bros’ musical film ‘The Color Purple’ based on the Tony-winning Broadway musical. The Ghanaian filmmaker reportedly caught the attention of the producers, Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, ...

Powerful Hurricane Laura battered the Louisiana coastline Thursday morning after sweeping ashore as the region’s strongest storm in over a century. If you’re just reading in now, here are the latest developments on the storm: Downgraded: Hurricane Laura made landfall as a Category 4 storm, but it has since weakened to a Category 2. It still has winds of 110 ...

French and Manchester United midfielder, Paul Pogba, has contracted coronavirus. France coach, Didier Deschamps, made this known to the press. Pogba was part of the France world cup winning team in Russia in 2018. Aged 27, the Guinean-origin midfielder will be self-isolating for 14 days. As a result, he is expected to miss France’s Nations League game in Sweden on ...

Dancehall artiste Charles Nii Armah Mensah, aka Shatta Wale, whose vision is to take Ghanaian music to another level, says he would not allow any politician or political party to use his songs and brand for this year’s elections. Shatta Wale’s brand has in recent times appeared on numerous political platforms which suggest that the reggae/dancehall act is backing their ...

Widows wept beyond control in front of their children in the Upper East Region on Wednesday as some angry customers of the Gold Coast Fund Management heaped blame on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for a decision that has caused their investments to be locked away from 2018 to date. The angry depositors, dominated by pensioners wearing red headbands with ...

This year’s edition of the annual Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA) Festival is scheduled to climax with a three-day music celebration, from Friday to Sunday, August 28 to 30, 2020. Dubbed the “VGMA Weekend”, the three-day music festival which is expected to celebrate Ghanaian culture, vivacious music and iconic artistes, will take place virtually because of the Covid-19 pandemic. It ...

Jeff Bezos was already the world’s richest man. Now his net worth has skyrocketed once again, setting another new record. On Wednesday, the Amazon CEO’s wealth reached an estimated $202 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as the company’s shares soared. That’s up about $87 billion since January. The explosive growth in Bezos’ fortune is being driven by his ...

Singer and rapper Wanlov the Kubolor has recounted how he suffered after smoking Indian hemp well known as weed somewhere in Tamale in the Northern Region. Kubolor who claims has stopped smoking weed revealed this as one of his worst experiences back in the days. Speaking to Mona Gucci on Kanataka TV, the controversial musician said for so many years ...

Member of Parliament(MP) for the Assin Central Constituency, Kennedy Agyapong, has described the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) as a bogus political party. According to him, the party has given out all Ashanti regions road contracts to one Kofi Job who openly insulted the then-candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo using all sorts of unprintable adjectives and said he will never become President. Kennedy Agyapong who was ...

The General Overseer of Ebenezer Miracle Worship Centre, Rev Opambour Ebenezer Adarkwa Yiadom, has berated the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for been ungrateful after helping the political party to win the 2016 elections. The Man of God who is popularly known as Prophet One while speaking about the worrying change in the attitude of some supposedly ‘big men’ in Ghana when they taste ...