In reaction to the suggestion that the people of Southern Kaduna should defend themselves from mass murder and genocide given the fact that their state government has refused to protect them a political advisor to Governor Nasir El Rufai wrote the following in an essay titled “Kaduna Shall Be Great Again”. He wrote: ”The greatest … Read more
The Queen is feeling “better” despite missing a New Year’s Day church service at Sandringham, her daughter the Princess Royal has said. Princess Anne spoke to well-wishers outside the church after attending the service with her father Prince Philip, brother Prince Edward and other royals. Buckingham Palace said the Queen is “still recuperating” from a … Read more
The founder of Facebook has found religion, it seems, according to a cheery holiday message he posted on the social network he created. On Christmas Day, Zuckerberg indicated in a Facebook status that he was “celebrating Christmas.” “Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah from Priscilla, Max, Beast and me,” he wrote, naming his wife, daughter and … Read more
MTN Ghana Foundation, the Corporate Social Investment wing of MTN Ghana has partnered with FreeLunchGH to organize Christmas parties for about a 1,000 children. The beneficiaries of the parties are children from Korle Gonno Community Library in Korle Gonno and Anoff MA Community School, near Nsawam. The parties were held on 22nd and 23rd December … Read more
A post-mortem examination into the cause of George Michael’s death was “inconclusive” police have said. The star died aged 53 on Christmas Day at his home in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. More tests will now be carried out to determine what led to his death, Thames Valley Police said in a statement. The results of these tests … Read more
Australian anti-terror police have charged a man for making threats against Sydney’s New Year’s Eve celebrations. The 40-year-old man was arrested at Sydney Airport on Thursday after arriving on a plane from London. The alleged threats were made on social media, said Acting Deputy Commissioner Frank Mennilli. Police also raided a house and a storage … Read more
Fireworks were lit on Christmas day, but more will be lit on new year’s eve to herald the new 2017. Not to be the bearer of bad tidings at a time when people are supposed to be having all the fun, it is becoming evidently clear that the use fireworks to herald a new year … Read more
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau appeared in a new video on Thursday to dispute a claim by the Nigerian president and the army that the armed group had been routed from its last stronghold of Sambisa Forest. “We are safe. We have not been flushed out of anywhere. And tactics and strategies cannot reveal our … Read more
About 30 young men have been arrested for engaging in illegal mining About 30 young men have been arrested for engaging in illegal mining on the concession of AngloGold Ashanti (AGA) at Obuasi in the Ashanti region. The police also impounded excavators and other sophisticated weapons during the swoop at the underground mine of AGA. … Read more
Samuel Atta Akyea, Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa South Constituency in the Eastern Region, has indicated that President-elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has been chosen by God to save Ghana from the mess created by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government. According to Lawyer Atta Akyea, God listened to the cries of Ghanaians and … Read more
Sometimes when I look at Sankor, the village where I was born, I wish the place never changed. It was a small environmentally friendly village of less than 100 people, with barely twenty houses, cut off from Winneba. It had no light. Homes did not have running water and toilet yet we had nearly a … Read more
Fifteen men have been charged after police said they made the biggest cocaine bust in Australia’s history. The drugs, with an estimated street value of A$360m (£212m; $258m), were uncovered after a police investigation over more than two years. Police said they seized 500kg (1,100lb) of cocaine from a boat in Brooklyn, north of Sydney, … Read more
Fifteen men have been charged after police said they made the biggest cocaine bust in Australia’s history. The drugs, with an estimated street value of A$360m (£212m; $258m), were uncovered after a police investigation over more than two years. Police said they seized 500kg (1,100lb) of cocaine from a boat in Brooklyn, north of Sydney, … Read more
On 25th December, Christmas day, when all people of peace and goodwill all over the world whose humanity has transcended religious barrier in a world savagely afflicted by religious extremism were wishing their Christian citizens, friends and customers a merry Christmas as a demonstration of the fact that despite our differences in religion and beliefs, … Read more
Ghana’s Deputy Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Hajia Hawawu Boya Gariba has backtracked on her story denying attacking a noisy church in the Northern region. Hajia Hawawu Gariba has admitted to the police she used pepper spray on members of the Spring of Life Assembly Church in the Northern Regional capital, Tamale. Police began investigation into … Read more
Families of the Nigerian “Chibok girls” freed by Islamist group Boko Haram say they are being closely guarded and were not allowed home for Christmas. Boko Haram kidnapped 276 girls in April 2014, but freed 21 of them in Octoberafter negotiations with the Red Cross. The freed girls have been in government custody since their … Read more
I was listening to an interview of Madereka Nyerere, son of late President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, on Voice of America TV programme, hosted by Salim Amin in Dar es Salaam on Sunday, 25th December 2016, Christmas day in Amin’s usual programme, The Scoop. Madereka’s father, Julius Nyerere, had had a leadership style of selflessness, … Read more
Obviously, Christmas not in Ghana, cannot be like Christmas in Ghana. That is the way it was for entertainment lovers, as there was much that went down. The best part of it was that most have been hyped, have actually kept to the hype. Shows in the country had started since 24th, through to boxing day. … Read more
The police in the Northern Region have collected a pistol belonging to Hajia Hawawu Gariba Boya, a Deputy Ambassador of Ghana to Saudi Arabia following an altercation with her neighbours in Tamale on Christmas Day. Madam Boya was said to have fired a warning shot at some members of a ‘noisy church’ in her neighbourhood … Read more
A family of eight was down to four after a gas explosion around the Trade Fair Center in Accra, fatally wiped off four members. Three others are battling for their lives at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. The only one not victimised by the fatalities or causalties is 38-year old Mawuli Addo, who lives at … Read more