Grammy award-winning Nigerian superstar singer, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, has become the first African musician to earn the BRIT Billion Award for over one billion streams in the United Kingdom. The award is given to artists who have achieved over one billion digital streams in the United...
Two US soldiers may face up to three years in prison and a $11,000 fine in connection with the spray painting of a 15th-century Basilica in the latest case of an Italian monument being defaced by foreigners. The two suspects, named only as A.J. Jr., 29, and B.M.E., 23, allegedly...
The Presidential Elections Committee of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has released a list of polling centres across the 16 regions for the forthcoming Special Delegates Conference scheduled for August 26. Williams Yamoah, the Secretary of the Presidential Elections Committee, disclosed in a statement that the delegates conference,...
The military juntas in Burkina Faso and Mali have said any forcible attempt to restore President Mohamed Bazoum in neighbouring Niger will be seen as a declaration of war on them. This follows a threat from a regional bloc that it would “take all measures” if the president was...
Britain is in the grip of an epidemic, but not one that is caused by a virus, unhealthy lifestyles or the foods that we eat. Instead, one of the biggest emerging threats is chronic loneliness — a feeling of overwhelming isolation coupled with a lack of meaningful relationships that...
The Chief Justice, Justice Gertrude Torkornoo has been explaining why a person with “obsene” and “offensive” conduct cannot be called to the bar. Highlighting some of the qualifications to the bar at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration – GIMPA Law Faculty, Justice Gertrude Torkornoo stated: “When...
Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, lawyer and cousin of president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is the latest personality to come under the parliamentary oversight radar of North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa. The lawmaker, on August 1, 2023, posted a series of documents to back his latest publication dubbed...
Senegal opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has been formally charged with fomenting insurrection and has been placed in custody, his lawyer is quoted by the AFP news agency as saying. He had also been accused of stealing the mobile phone of a gendarme, whose vehicle had broken down near the...
Virgil van Dijk has been named the new Liverpool captain with Trent Alexander-Arnold appointed vice captain as Jurgen Klopp appointed his successor to Jordan Henderson. The Netherlands defender was expected to fill the void left by Henderson who conceded the armband by choosing to join Saudi Arabian side Al-Ettifaq,...
Dan Botwe, the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, has written a letter to President Nana Akufo-Addo in which he strongly named Irene Naa Torshie Addo-Lartey, Administrator of the Districts Assemblies Common Fund (DACF), over what he described as her refusal to cooperate with his ministry in the...
