Ghana drops on Press Freedom Index over threats against investigative reporters
Ghana has dropped three places on the World Press Freedom index mainly due to the threats investigative reporters face in the country. The 2020 index put together by campaign group, Reporters Without Borders saw Ghana ranking 30 after coming 27 in 2019. The failure of the state to arrest and prosecute persons behind the murder of private investigator, Ahmed Suale who...
Kim Jong-un illness rumours denied amid intense speculation
Reports that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is seriously ill after heart surgery are not true, officials in South Korea have said. Headlines that Kim Jong-un was "gravely ill", "brain-dead" or "recovering from an operation" were always going to be impossible to verify. But the presidential office in Seoul has said there have been no particular signs from the North to...
Crash! US crude prices drop to negative for first time in history
United States oil futures turned negative for the first time in history on Monday with traders dumping May contracts as analysts warn that crude storage will fill to the brim by next month, and US shale firms weigh the real possibility of shutting down production. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude for May delivery crashed more than 300 percent...
NPP donates PPE to all constituencies and regions to fight COVID-19
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has donated a consignment of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to all the 275 constituencies and 16 regions of the country. The donation is to support the national effort towards containment of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. The items that were donated included dozens of Veronica buckets, hand sanitizers, antiseptic liquid soaps, bucket stands, waste...
Edem’s wife triggers reactions with ‘orgasmic’ post
Stacey Osekere’s description of her 6-year marriage journey with rapper Edem has stoked conversation on social media with followers labelling her risqué post as ‘wicked’ and ‘wild’. Arguably, it’s quite rare for couples to share bedroom moments publicly and in instances they do, the diction is coded to the extent that one would have to decipher what is being communicated. Stacey will not...
Journalist assault in Tamale: GJA demand police investigation
The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) northern region chapter is demanding full scale police enquiry into circumstances that preceded the alleged assault of the Northern Region Reporter of TV Africa over the weekend in Tamale. The journalist was in Changli, a suburb of the Tamale metropolis to cover violent disturbances of between armed personnel of the Ghana Police Service and residents...
Four communities get 1V1D projects in Tamale South
The Tamale South constituency New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament hopeful for the 2020 general elections, Mr. Yakubu Yussif and the Chief Executive Officer of the Tamale metropolis, Mr. Musah Iddrisu Superior have inspected the construction of four dams under the one village, one dam pro-poor flagship policy intervention in the constituency. The projects are at various stages of...
7 reasons why Akufo-Addo lifted lockdown despite upsurge in COVID-19 cases
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Sunday, April 19, 2020, announced the suspension of the partial lockdown imposed on the Greater Accra and Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Areas effective today, Monday. The decision comes on the back of an upsurge in the number of Coronavirus cases recorded within the last few weeks. The announcement has been met with mixed reactions. Whereas some...
Akufo-Addo warns COVID-19 hit communities to be lockeddown
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has warned that lifting the partial lockdown does not mean Ghana is out of the pandemic yet. He cautioned that communities will be locked down if it is identified the virus is becoming prevalent until there is a clear understanding of the trajectory of the virus and the ability to contain it. He indicated that events...
COVID-19: Akufo-Addo lifts lockdown, borders still closed
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced lifting of the restriction of movements imposed on Accra, Tema, Kumasi and Kasoa three weeks ago. Other precautionary protocols, he said, will however continue to be in place as the state pursues its efforts to stem out the tide of the Coronavirus pandemic. In his 7th televised address to the nation the...
