International

Ghanaian actor and YouTube skit maker, Ras Nene, also known as Dr Likee, was caught up in a heated argument with the security team at Achimota Mall in Accra. Sources revealed that Ras Nene had previously obtained permission to shoot his skit at the mall. However, he was unexpectedly denied …

The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has shed a light perspective on the phenomenon that often compels men to have extra relationships alongside their wives. In a video shared on the official Twitter handle of Joy News on June 08, 2023, the finance minister, in a speech, emphasized that the …

Three Black Stars players – Kudus Mohammed, Joseph Paintsil and Abdul Salis Samed – will headline the 2023 edition of the Ghana Football Awards which comes off on Sunday, June 25, 2023, at the Accra Internationational Conference Centre. The event which will be live on Joy Prime TV will see …

The recruitment of nurses by high-income countries from poorer nations is “out of control”, according to the head of one of the world’s biggest nursing groups. The comments come as the BBC finds evidence of how Ghana’s health system is struggling due to the “brain-drain”. Many specialist nurses have left …

Two police officers were injured when two young individuals from the local neighborhood managed to escape with police handcuffs at Gomoa Nyanayano. The authorities had dispatched a team of police officers from the intelligence unit to apprehend suspected criminals who had reportedly robbed residents at Kasoa and sought refuge at …

Counsellor Dominic Mbang, a Ghanaian, has been elected as the new Mayor of the Royal Borough of Greenwich in Greater London for the period 2023-2024. He and his wife (Mayoress) are the Borough’s first Ghanaians and second African/Caribbean heritage mayors. Cllr Mbang, a Woolwich Dockyard ward councillor, was first elected …

A Brazilian doctor recently lost his job after allegedly prescribing chocolate ice cream and video games to a 9-year-old with a sore throat and flu-like symptoms. On May 18th, Priscila da Silva Ramos, a 37-year-old mother from Osasco, in Greater São Paulo, took her 9-year-old child for a checkup at …

The owner of Hilton Hotel in Ile-Ife, Nigeria, Dr Rahmon Adedoyin has been sentenced to death by hanging, along with two workers of the hotel, for the murder of a student, Timothy Adegoke. Justice Oyebola Ojo, Osun State Chief Judge sitting at the High Court in Osogbo, said based on …

More than 30 schoolchildren have been admitted to hospital after they inhaled teargas from canisters fired by anti-riot police during a morning drill in Nigeria’s south-western Osun State, local media reports.   The students from Fakunle Comprehensive School were reportedly rushed to two different hospitals for urgent medical attention after …

Popular dancehall artiste, Charles Nii Armah Mensah, also known as Shatta Wale and his former Manager, Lawrence Asiamah Hanson, aka Bulldog have reached an agreement in principle to settle the defamation suit out of court. On April 18, 2023, lawyers for Shatta Wale requested for a month for further negotiations …