Musician Mzbel has reacted after news of her arrest and detainment went viral on social media. The musician shared on her social media a picture of her in her nightdress ready for bed with the caption “If u prayed for my downfall, u should get a refund back lol, Well feel free to use me to trend some wai lol good night Mzbelievers.” ...

IMANI Vice President Kofi Bentil has backed calls for the legalisation of Okada in Ghana. NDC flagbearer John Mahama has ignited the Okada conversation in the country with his promise to regularise the activities of the commercial bike riders if he wins the 2020 elections. According to Mr Mahama, the operations of Okada has created more jobs for the youth ...

Entertainment journalist and broadcaster, Halifax Ansah Addo says he will never trust the Member of Parliament for Assin Central and businessman, Kennedy Agyapong if he fails to provide Tracey Boakye’s blackmail videos. Speaking on Peace FM’s entertainment show Entertainment Review, Halifax believes it will be a big blow to the face of Kennedy if he is unable to provide Tracey’s ...

The National President of the Okada Riders Association of Ghana, Michael Kofi Owusu, has lauded the promise by former President John Dramani Mahama to legalise commercial motor riding popularly known as Okada if he is re-elected President in the upcoming December polls. The NDC flagbearer during his tour of the Volta region said even though the business of commercial motto ...

Ghanaian investors in the diaspora have been told that the economy of the oil-producing West African nation has seen massive improvement over the years. Therefore, they should return to Ghana their homeland to invest in the local economy. Speaking during a webinar organized for over 100 Ghanaians in the diaspora via Zoom on the topic ‘Ghana, An Ideal Destination for ...

Berlin authorities have announced they are to rename Mohrenstraße (“Moor Street”) in the city’s Mitte district after the country’s first black philosopher, Anton Wilhelm Amo. The decision follows years of protest by postcolonial campaigners, including historians and ethnologists, who had criticised the street name as racist. Campaigners welcomed the decision on Friday, which comes in the wake of a worldwide ...

There have been clashes for a second night in Wisconsin, with buildings and cars set alight, following the police shooting of a black man on Sunday. Jacob Blake, 29, is in a stable condition after he was shot several times as he went to a car and opened its door in the city of Kenosha. Governor Tony Evers has called ...

The Akufo-Addo government saved the Ghanaian taxpayer more than $1 billion in the award of a contract for the purpose of creating the mobile money interoperability, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said. According to Dr Bawumia, before the NPP came into power, the erstwhile Mahama administration had awarded the contract for $1.2 billion. The contract was, however, cancelled by ...

Back in 2010, Texas-based Anadarko Corp. (now a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corp.) and Italian energy giant ENI SpA announced the discovery of approximately 180 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves, equivalent to ~29 billion barrels of oil, in Mozambique’s supergiant offshore basin of Rovuma, immediately catapulting the south African nation to a potential global LNG superpower. As expected, ...

Dr Yakubu Akparibo, an aviation expert, has said the planned construction of an airport in the Central Region of Ghana, which found its way into the incumbent NPP’s 2020 manifesto, is not viable due to a plethora of reasons. According to him, most of the conditions that will be serving as the basis for such a project are non-existent, therefore, ...