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Benin’s Wadagni wins presidency in landslide with over 94% of votes
Posted on with No CommentBenin’s Finance Minister Romuald Wadagni secured a landslide victory in the West African nation’s April 12 presidential election, garnering over 94% of ?the votes, provisional results from the electoral commission showed on Monday. Sacca Lafia, head ?of the country’s ?independent … Read more →
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WhatsApp now tells when you read messages
Posted on | CommentThe popular messaging application (app), WhatsApp has added a new feature, and users will now find a small but useful change. WatsApp will now light up its double-check marks blue when a message has been read. Many users have misinterpreted the double … Read more →
Cured Ebola Nurse tells her story (PHOTO)
Posted on | CommentThe Spanish nurse who became the first person known to have contracted Ebola outside West Africa in the latest outbreak has given an emotional account of her ordeal as she left hospital. Teresa Romero said she had clung to memories … Read more →
I’m ready to sacrifice my life for Asanteman
Posted on | CommentReminiscent of the bravery of the legendary Tweneboah Koduah, Barima Sarfo Tweneboah Koduah has vowed to sacrifice his life for the growth of Asanteman if the need arises. The 47-year-old medical director last Monday swore the oath of allegiance to … Read more →
“Hook-up” app for gays gets big investment
Posted on | CommentA “hook-up” app for gay men in China has secured $30m (£19m) funding from venture capitalists DCM. Blued, created by social media site DanLan in 2012, claims to have 15 million active users. According to news website Tech in Asia, … Read more →
Revealed: 30,000 gays in Ghana
Posted on | CommentEven though the country’s laws criminalise unnatural carnal knowledge, the practice of men who have sex with men (MSM), popularly called gay, is on an alarming rise. It is estimated that MSM in Ghana are over 30,000 and they can … Read more →
Driver gets 20-year jail term
Posted on | CommentAn Accra Circuit Court on Tuesday handed a 20-year jail term to one John Selasi Wills, a driver, for conspiracy to commit crime, unlawful entry, stealing, causing unlawful damage and having possession of stolen property. John pleaded not guilty before … Read more →
POTAG to embark on another strike?
Posted on | CommentThe Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) has urged the government to pay the book and research allowance for the 2013/2014 academic year otherwise it will advise itself. In a statement signed by its General Secretary, Mr Adamu Ibrahim, POTAG … Read more →
“What are you doing in my palace; leave!” Otumfour attacks Akropong Chief
Posted on | CommentThe Royal Majesty, the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, does not often display his anger in public, but when the Chief of Akropong, Nana Sarfo Kantanka came before him last Tuesday, the anger of the Great King was apparent. An … Read more →
PHOTOS: Man holds wedding for monkey couple
Posted on | CommentMore than 200 villagers in northern India have attended an elaborate Hindu wedding ceremony for two monkeys. The wedding was organised by the owner of the monkeys, who said the male was “like an adopted son” to him. The ceremony … Read more →
NHIA owes KNUST GH¢1m
Posted on | CommentThe National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) owes the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Hospital in Kumasi a staggering GH¢1 million. The huge debt cropped up because NHIS claims sent to the NHIA by the authorities of the … Read more →
Harvard University offers students ‘Anal Sex 101’ class
Posted on | CommentThe word “Harvard” means a lot of different things to different people. To some, it’s one of the world’s best school and a bastion of higher education and academia. To others, it’s the place you go on weekends when you … Read more →
Workers suspend strike
Posted on | CommentStriking workers have called off their two-week-old strike over the management of their pensions. Government last Friday secured a court order directing the workers to call off the strike. At a news conference on Tuesday, the workers announced they will … Read more →
Best Point rakes GH¢20m in 10 months
Posted on | CommentBest Point Savings & Loans Limited, a subsidiary of the Despite Group of Companies, says it has mobilized deposits to the tune of GH¢20.3 million in nine months. The company said it achieved the feat through the establishment of account … Read more →
Boyfriend commits suicide
Posted on | CommentA 29-year-old man at Wassa Adiembra near Wasa Akropong in the Western Region, has allegedly killed himself after suspecting that his 26-year-old girl friend was cheating on him. The incident occurred on Saturday, November 1, 2014. The deceased, Nyatorgu Grumah, an … Read more →
Be constructive in criticising Mensa Otabil – Archbishop Duncan-Williams
Posted on | CommentThe founder and general overseer of the Christian Action Faith Ministries, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams, has advised critics to constructively criticise his colleague, Pastor Mensah Otabil, if there was the need to do so. According to him critics who drag the … Read more →
My ambition was to be a boxer – Pastor Mensa Otabil
Posted on | CommentFounder of International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) Pastor Mensa Otabil has revealed that, as a young man, his ambition was to become a heavyweight boxer. He hinted that he fancied the sport, growing up, but retreated and turned to the pulpit after receiving some heavy punches … Read more →
Don’t divorce because I did – Archbishop Duncan-Williams
Posted on | CommentThe Presiding Archbishop and General Overseer of Christian Action Faith Ministries, Nicholas Duncan-Williams has admonished couples, particularly the men, not to follow his example and divorce their spouses. Archbishop Duncan-Williams and his first wife, ‘Mama’ Francisca, in 2007 walked out … Read more →
Police to meet AFAG over new demo date
Posted on | CommentThe Greater Accra Police command will meet the leaders of pressure group Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG) to discuss a new date for their planned demonstration. The Police had earlier secured a court order to postpone the demonstration because of … Read more →
The hypocrisy and selectiveness of Sekondi-Takoradi City Authorities
Posted on | CommentYou see them in their neatly ironed uniforms Some in Green/White Top with a nicely ironed pair of Trousers to match Others are seen in all- Khaki attire and a few others in Mufti But they almost always have a … Read more →
VIDEO: Accra Mayor causes arrest of ‘trotro driver’
Posted on | CommentPresident John Dramani Mahama said on Friday that government has instituted Ghana’s National Sanitation Day to help tackle the cholera outbreak nationwide. He stressed that in addition to the various public education campaigns aimed at changing behaviours and attitudes towards … Read more →
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