US President Donald Trump sought to defend himself against criticism that he provided Israeli intelligence to Russia as he met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday. Trump, responding to a journalist’s question on the subject alongside Netanyahu, said “I never mentioned the word or the name Israel.” “Never mentioned during that conversation,” he … Read more
Renowned Ghanaian investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, will be honoured with the GUBA 2017 Black Star Award for Exceptional Journalists at the Intercontinental Hotel in London on Saturday the 3rd of June 2017. The Exceptional Journalist Award recognises outstanding journalists whose works have impacted society positively. The GUBA Awards, now in their sixth year, seek … Read more
We said never again after June 3, we thought it was ending after Trade Fair explosion on December 22, we grinned our teeth after the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) explosion on January 26. What didn’t we say after premix explosion at Axim on June 2012? We said similar things after Tema Valco Estates in Community … Read more
A Pakistani opposition party led by former cricketer Imran Khan will take legal action against the government for detaining its vocal online activists under a controversial cybercrime law, a spokesman said Monday. At least 23 supporters of the Pakistan Tehreek Insaaf (Movement for Justice) party have been detained and threatened with action under the Prevention … Read more
The Southern Ghana Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church has denied media reports it has placed a temporal ban on Islamic Worship at its college of Education in Koforidua-Asokore in the Eastern region. In a reaction to the story in a statement signed by one Solace Yawa Asafo (Mrs), it described the story as a … Read more
The Press Foundation, has drawn the attention of the Information Minister,Mustapha Hamid to comments made by the Public Relations Officer(PRO) of the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr. Abraham Otabil that, “All you need is give Kumasi-based journalists GH¢20 or GH¢30 …. They will become so happy, so indebted to air or publish your … Read more
The Cannes film festival — the world’s greatest movie showcase — celebrates its 70th anniversary this year. AFP asked actors and directors who made their names at the festival to recount their highs and lows at the star-studded event. Celebrated Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s first experience of Cannes was in 1999 and remains a particularly … Read more
Family, friends, and sympathizers of late broadcaster, Christopher Opoku gathered on Saturday, May 20, 2017 at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to mark a week’s anniversary of the passing of their beloved. The sympathizers offered condolences and donations to the family of the deceased. Citi FM’s News Editor, Richard Mensah lead … Read more
Australia’s role as a testing ground for global media giants such as the New York Times, Daily Mail and the Guardian could hasten the decline of embattled local players as they fight for eyeballs and advertising dollars, analysts warn. With traditional sources of circulation and advertising revenues drying up, the world’s biggest news brands are … Read more
Up to 20 CIA informants were killed or imprisoned by the Chinese government between 2010 and 2012, the New York Times reports, damaging US information-gathering in the country for years. It is not clear whether the CIA was hacked or whether a mole helped the Chinese to identify the agents, officials told the paper. They … Read more
Why Midwifery schools punish female students for being pregnant? File photo: A pregnant student of the Gushiegu Midwifery School was sacked from writing exam. As a journalist, every year when the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) is underway, and I have to go round to the centres to report, one unconscious thing I always do … Read more
Veteran Journalist, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has said the NDC Minority in Parliament will be hugely embarrassed following their petitioning of the US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) to investigate US$2.25 billion bond issuance by the Akufo Addo government in which Franklin Templeton, a US registered company purchased 95% of 15-year and 7-year bonds. According … Read more
Ace sports journalist and former coach of Sekondi Eleven Wise Nana Agyemang has refuted claims that he blamed an unsuccessful operation at the Okomfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi for Christopher Opoku’s death. Reports in the media had claimed that he outspoken journalist who was a close friend of the late Christopher Opoku had, in … Read more
Family, friends, and sympathizers of late broadcaster, Christopher Opoku gathered on Saturday, May 20, 2017 at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) to mark a week’s anniversary of the passing of their beloved. The sympathizers offered condolences and donations to the family of the deceased. Christopher Opoku, the celebrated Ghanaian journalist, best known … Read more
Veteran Journalist, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has said the NDC Minority in Parliament will be hugely embarrassed following their petitioning of the US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) to investigate US$2.25 billion bond issuance by the Akufo Addo government in which Franklin Templeton, a US registered company purchased 95% of 15-year and 7-year bonds. According … Read more
In a profession which has an attrition rate as fleeting as the love of a playboy to a new found girl, one woman has remained so faithful to her second love- journalism. For 20 years, Dzifa Bampoh has blazed the trail in a profession that brings popularity, leaves out prosperity in a material sense and … Read more
Two fugitive former army officers have been indicted over the 2004 murder of prominent Gambian journalist Deyda Hydara, judicial sources said. The court in Banjul also separately issued an arrest warrant for ex-interior minister Ousman Sonko over the death of former intelligence chief Daba Marenah. Hydara, 65, an outspoken critic of then president Yahya Jammeh, … Read more
Turkey on Thursday hit back at German threats to pull its troops out of a key NATO base on its soil, saying it would “not beg” them to stay. Ankara and Berlin are locked in another spat over Turkey’s refusal to allow German lawmakers to visit the Incirlik base near Syria, which is used by … Read more
The Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has stated that the decision to free the eight members of the Delta Force who were standing trial for invading the KMA court in Kumasi is ‘politically unwise’. The Attorney General (AG) dropped the case against the eight members of the vigilante group, … Read more
US soldier Chelsea Manning has been released from prison after serving seven years for leaking hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and military files to Wikileaks. A US Army spokesperson confirmed to the BBC that she had left Fort Leavenworth military prison in Kansas. Most of what remained of her 35-year sentence was commuted by … Read more