“A total system collapse” has resulted in widespread power blackouts across Nigeria, Africa’s biggest economy. The outage on Thursday affected all of Nigeria’s 36 states and its capital, Abuja. The grid has collapsed multiple times, and it was not clear when power would be restored. The Enugu Electricity Distribution...
It has emerged that the businesswoman who was murdered in Kumasi on Friday, September 8, 2023, is the wife of the son of legendary Ghanaian footballer, Reverend Osei Kofi. Chilling details of the incident as divulged by ace sports broadcaster Dan Kwaku Yeboah indicate that the woman known as...
The Member of Parliament for Dome-Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Safo, has rendered an unqualified apology to the leadership of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), especially the President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, and other party officials. In a video circulating on social media, Adwoa Safo explained...
Drama unfolded in an Accra Circuit court on Wednesday when a businessman, Frank Kwesi Obeng, confronted the judge after being handed a 15-year prison sentence for charges of conspiracy to steal, abetment of crime, and money laundering. As the verdict was delivered, Obeng immediately questioned the judge, saying, “Please,...
The Member of Parliament for Abuakwa South, Samuel Atta Akyea, has disclosed that the viral leaked tape on Inspector General of Police (IGP) George Akuffo Dampare’s removal appears to be doctored. Atta Akyea, who is also the chairman of the Parliamentary Committee probing the leaked audio, made the claim...
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) has taken on former President John Mahama for criticising the government’s increment of the farmgate price of cocoa beans for the 2023/2024 season. President Akufo-Addo on September 9, while addressing cocoa farmers in Tepa of the Ashanti region announced a 63.6% upward adjustment from GH₵800 to...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in Russia for talks with President Vladimir Putin, a situation that has the Biden administration and its ally in South Korea fuming but powerless to prevent. North Korean state media and South Korean defence officials both confirmed that Kim crossed into Russia by...
…Diplomatic row expected soon Reports making the rounds in the Ghana Police Service is that 12 persons with Nigerian names, including a heavily pregnant woman have gone missing from custody. The Herald’s information is that, the Nigerian High Commission is making frantic efforts to get some details on the matter,...
Controversial Presidential Aspirant of the governing New New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, has served notice to those calling on him to step down that their wishes are pipe dream. According to him “I am not going to step down for anybody, when you win, then you win,...
The Applicant who initiated the legal action at the Tema High Court seeking an interlocutory injunction against Electoral Commission’s Limited Voters’ Registration exercise has again asked the court to commit Jean Mensa, the Chairperson of the EC to prison. In a Contempt Application filed on Tuesday, September 12, the...
