Gabby Asara Otchere-Darko, a family member of President Akufo-Addo, has denied owning Agyapa Royalties, formerly Asaase Royalties, an entity registered both in Ghana and Jersey. In a post on his Facebook timeline, Otchere-Darko said Agyapa Royalties is 100% owned by a body set up under an Act of Parliament. “That body is the Minerals Income Investment Fund set up in ...

Russian opposition leader and outspoken Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny was unconscious and on a ventilator in a Siberian hospital Thursday after falling ill from suspected poisoning, his spokesperson said. Navalny, 44, started feeling unwell while on a return flight to Moscow from the Siberian city of Tomsk, his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh, said on Twitter. The plane later made an urgent ...

Independent parliamentary candidate for Tarkwa-Nsuaem constituency in the Western region Joy Joycelyn Andoh has condemned the vandalizing of her billboards and posters mounted within Nsuaem by persons believed to be supporters of the ruling NPP. She describes the act as a disturbing, criminal, cowardly, intimidatory, and a failed attempt to stoke violence and disrupt the peaceful atmosphere the constituency has ...

Sarkodie has expressed his displeasure with dancehall artiste Stonebwoy over the impasse with his manager Angel. Stonebwoy is reported to have hit Angel in the face while the two were engaged in verbal exchanges while preparing for the Black Love Concert. “For the first time in a long while, my limit was pushed beyond just because of what happened. Everyone ...

A lecturer with the Cape Coast University says the head of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) in Ghana must take the ultimate responsibility for the massive leakage of West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) questions by leaving his post. According to Dr. Kenneth Aikins, such an action will indicate that WAEC does not tolerate unethical breaches and is ...

Togbe Afede XIV, the Agbogbomefia of Asogli State, has indicated that it is refreshing for the former President to give the people of the Volta Region some hope, as he campaigns to get voted for his second term. Togbe Afede XIV indicated that the country for almost four years under the leadership of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has seen joblessness ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Wednesday, 19th August 2020, cut the sod for the commencement of construction of the Operational Headquarters of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation. This, is in fulfillment of a key manifesto pledge made by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to the people of the Western Region, in the run-up to the conduct of the December ...

A total of about 200 acres of farms have been submerged by flood waters in Kwahu Afram Plains North District of the Eastern Region as a result of the spillage of the Bagre dam in neighboring West African country – Burkina Faso. The Afram River is swelling causing serious flood in ten (10) Communities such as Dwarf and Digya Islands, ...

Eight more persons have succumbed to the deadly COVID-19 in Ghana, taking the country’s death toll to 256. The total case count of the highly infectious disease now stands at 43,094 with a total of 40,963 people either recovered or discharged. The current active cases has dropped slightly from 1,949 to 1,875 with 101 new cases recorded, the Ghana Health ...

Popular Ghanaian spiritualist and herbalist Nana Adu Boafo claims the majority of Ghanaian musicians who consult him for spiritual powers (juju) are gospel singers. According to him, out of the many artistes who consult him, Gospel artistes form the majority. He made this damning claim during an interview on Showbiz A to Z, hosted by George Quaye. “They [Gospel artists] ...