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Actor William Addo goes ‘totally’ blind, appeals for support

After going through two glaucoma and cataract surgeries in 2016, legendary Ghanaian actor, William Addo aka Akpatse has gone totally blind and is appealing...

Monies can’t be refunded – George Quaye replies VGMA attendees

Communication Head for Charterhouse, organisers of the annual Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMAs), George Quaye has rubbished suggestions that the VGMA Board should refund...

Audio: Lower Manya Krobo MCE ordered to foot bills of Krobo riot victims

The Lower Manya Krobo Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Simon Kweku Tetteh, has been charged by the Eastern Regional Minister, Eric Kwakye Darfuor, to foot...

Edwin Arthur elected president of PRINPAG

The Managing Editor of The New Independent Newspaper, Andrew Edwin Arthur, has been elected as the President of the Private Newspaper Publishers Association of...

Chokosi-Kokomba conflict: Two jailed 10 years

Two people have been sentenced to a total of 10 years imprisonment in connection with the Chokosis and Konkomba clash in the Chereponi and...

Company builds under high tension, abandons GH¢500,000 govt deal after electrocution

Park-side Limited, a construction company, has abandoned a GH¢503, 935.08 worth of contract for the construction of a public place of convenience (KVIP) at...

Kwaw Kese’s jail time cemented Shatta Wale’s career – Mark Okraku Mantey

Artiste manager and renowned producer, Mark Okraku Mantey says Shatta Wale’s relevance in the music sphere stemmed up after rapper Kwaw Kesse was arrested...

Audio: Boy, 6, drowns in Lake Volta during school hours

A six-year-old boy, identified as Benjamin Adu Gyamfi, a pupil of Roman Catholic Basic School in Yeji in the Bono East region, on Thursday...

Photos: Fire razes furniture shop at Sakaman

Fire has razed Central Furniture shop at Sakaman, a suburb in Accra destroying furniture worth thousands of cedis in the early hours of Friday. The...

VGMA clash: Shatta Wale plays too much, climbed stage aimlessly – Mark Okraku Mantey (Video)

Astute producer, Mark Okraku Mantey has waded into the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards brawl that ensued between Stonebwoy and Shatta Wale last weekend at...

Lower Manya chaos: Father of deceased, residents narrate ordeal (Audio)

Wilfred Sam Partey, father of a young man identified as Thomas Partey Nartey who lost his life in a clash between the Police and...

Passport fees to go up

Government is considering reviewing passport fees upwards to help it break even and avoid the current losses incurred in the processing and production of...

Shatta-Stonebwoy ban: Check out ‘unhappy’ Sarkodie’s tweets to Charterhouse

Ghanaian rapper Sarkodie is unhappy with Charterhouse, organisers of Vodafone Ghana Music Awards' (VGMAs) decision to ban dancehall acts Stonebwoy and Shatta Wale. In series...

5 best beauty secrets from around the world

If you are fascinated with beauty treatments across the globe, then you will love reading this. As far as India is concerned, it's the...

Facebook culls 3 billion fake profiles

Facebook has published its latest 'enforcement report', which details how many posts and accounts it took action on between October 2018 and March 2019. During...

The most bizarre celebrity airport outfits

People usually like to be dressed comfortably while travelling. However apparently, this is not the case for everyone. Between the high heels, the revealing dresses, and the nightwear,...

Celebrities react to Charterhouse taking back awards given to Stonebwoy, Shatta Wale

Some concerned Ghanaians, consisting mainly of fans of Stonebwoy and Shatta Wale and some industry players, have taken a swipe at Charterhouse for indefinitely...

CSS petitions CHRAJ over Ghana Card registration anomalies

 The Centre for Socio-economic Studies (CSS) has petitioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) over what it calls Ghana Card registration...

I will block fans who ‘diss’ Stonebwoy on social media – Shatta Wale

Dancehall act, Shatta Wale has proved he wants peace between himself and archrival Stonebwoy. The dancehall act hasn't known peace ever since he walked...

Audio: Minister explains what triggered melee in Manya Krobo over mass disconnection exercise

The Eastern Regional Minister, Eric Kwakye Daffour, has provided an update on the happenings at Manya Krobo in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality, the...

M.anifest fights child abuse

Rapper M.anifest has called for the total elimination of child abuse in order to safeguard children’s development. He said society has the collective responsibility to...

Audio: Ghana’s drop in media freedom index due to Suale’s murder – Oppong Nkrumah

“Ahmed Suale’s death is a blot on the image of Ghana and that was what led to Ghana’s drop in position on the media...

VGMA@20: Rest of awards to be presented nullified – Charterhouse

Per a press conference organised by Charterhouse and Musicians Union of Ghana on Thursday, 'Artiste of the Year' and 'Popular Song of the Year'...

Asante Akyem Zongo Council appeals to govt for Islamic SHS

The Council of Zongo elders at Asante Akyem in the Ashanti region is appealing to the government for support to construct an Islamic Senior...

Artiste of the Decade: Samini finally breaks silence on Sarkodie’s win

One of the heated categories aside Reggae/Dancehall Artiste of the Year at the just ended 2019 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards was the Artiste of...

Accra International Book Festival hosts South African writer on ‘Catch Up!’

Literary community, the Accra International Book Festival (AIBF) will host South African writer, Lerato Mogoatlhe on its all writers’ affair platform, ‘Catch Up!’. The event...

I will no longer be part of Ghana Music Awards – Shatta Wale

Following the recent scuffle between dancehall artistes Stonebwoy and Shatta Wale at the recently held 2019 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA), the latter has...

Police suspicion leads to arrest of 3 laptops, phone thieves

Three men have been arrested by the Assin Fosu Police patrol team in the Central region for allegedly stealing valuable items worth thousands of...

Gun at VGMA: Charterhouse bans Shatta Wale, Stonebwoy indefinitely

Shatta Wale and Stonebwoy have been banned indefinitely from participating in the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMAs) with immediate effect. At a press conference...

Lower Manya chaos: 35 arrested, 100 police personnel deployed

Thirty-five people have been arrested in the Lower Manya Municipality in the Eastern region following a clash between police and some youth in the...

NUGS pays working visit to Asanteman and Ejisuman Senior High Schools

The National Union of Ghana Students on Wednesday, May 22, 2019 visited Asanteman Senior High School and Ejisuman Senior High School in the Ashanti region to...

Light Foundation supports deprived communities with Ramadan food

The Light Foundation, an Accra-based Islamic non- governmental foundation has supported some Muslim rural communities with food items to enable them go through the Ramadan period...

Kofi Kinaata advises against illegal fishing in new song

It is rare to see artistes taking on national issues that have nothing to do with the creative arts industry but once in a...

Shatta and Stonebwoy need counselling from Akufo-Addo – Lawyer

Private legal practitioner, Dr Maurice Ampaw has called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to immediately invite Ghanaian reggae dancehall artistes Livingstone Etse Satekla,...

No Artiste of the Year: Previous VGMA Artistes of the Year share views

This year, something unprecedented happened at the Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA); there was no announcement of the two most important awards — Artiste...

Stonebwoy and Shatta Wale should unite through a song – Samini

The last thing Ghanaians would expect after the fracas at last weekend’s Vodafone Ghana Music Awards will be a collaboration between musicians Stonebwoy and...

E/R: Youth, Police clash over PDS disconnection exercise, the inside story

Some Irate youth at Manya Kpongunor in the Lower Manya Krobo District of the Eastern region on Wednesday clashed with the police in the...

VGMA@20: Call for prosecution of Shatta Wale, Stonebwoy alone not right – Mr Logic

Entertainment critic, Emmanuel Barnes, also known as Mr Logic, has said it is unfair for Stonebwoy and Shatta Wale alone to be charged for the fracas that...

Tarkwa Nsuaem MP donates 250 furniture to education directorate

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Tarkwa-Nsuaem Constituency, George Mireku Duker has donated 250 furniture to the Tarkwa-Nsuaem Municipal Education Directorate to improve teaching and learning in...

You can be a star today but a criminal tomorrow – Gemann to Shatta Wale, Stonebwoy

Musician turned pastor, Nana Gemann, has called on feuding Dancehall artistes, Stonebwoy and Shatta Wale to use their talent to make an impact on society instead...