Big Brother Africa, which was supposed to begin on Sunday (7th September) has been postponed indefinitely due to a fire incident at the BBA House in Jo’burg, South Africa. Below is a press release from M-Net: “M-Net and Endemol SA advise that due to a devastating fire at the Big Brother house on 2 September ...

Three mortuary technicians in Kenya have been charged with cutting sexual organs from a dead body. Stephen Ngei, Julius Wambua and Mary Nzilani are accused of unlawfully harming the deceased body of a woman at the Montenzuma Monalisa Funeral home in Machakos. Prosecutors supplied a court with photographs as evidence. The three have pleaded not ...

A five-member armed robbery gang has been busted by the Accra Regional Police Command following a series of attacks they launched on residents of five communities in Accra and its environs. The suspects, described by the police as hardened criminals, are said to have terrorised residents of East Legon, Adjirigano, Trasaaco, Ogbojo and Madina in Accra. ...

The Black Stars are currently in Kumasi and have begun training  for their AFCON 2015 qualifer against the Cranes of Uganda. The team got to Kumasi on Tuesday morning and went into their first training at the Baba Yara Stadium involving 21 players and the technical team. The team was joined by Harrison Afful but ...

The Cranes of Uganda are currently in Niger to hold their training camp and prepare for the AFCON 2015 Group E qualifier against the Black Stars on Saturday 6th September. The team landed in Niger earlier on Tuesday and will begin getting ready for the match in Ghana with a friendly tie against Niger later ...

The former Chief Operations Officer of the UT Group, Captain Budu Koomson (Rtd.) has urged government to tell Ghanaians the truth about the state of the country’s economy in a bid to help manage the expectations of the people. Politicians, analysts and economists have criticized government for not taking pragmatic steps to save the ailing economy ...

A woman crashed her car trying to send a text message while driving – and ended up with a pole through her buttocks. Christina Jahnz said she was late for a meeting after dropping her daughter off at school in Elizabeth, Colorado, when she attempted to send a voice text through her mobile phone. But ...

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has charged city authorities, to enforce their proposed ban on the sale of food on the streets. This follows the Service’s announcement yesterday in a bid to curb the spread of the cholera disease with has so far claimed 80 lives and affected over 10, 000 people. The Ghana Heath ...

The  Eastern Regional Minister, Antwi Boasiako Sekyere is responding to treatment after a car accident  on the Akuampem ridge road on Tuesday. The Minister was reportedly driving home after attending an official assignment in Accra. According to the Public Relations Officer of the Regional Administrating Council, Prosper Fetor Tsormana, the minister sustained minor injuries and ...

Looking out through the boardroom windows of the Namibian Anti-Corruption Commission’s gleaming head office, its director Paulus Noa admitted that legal loopholes are sometimes abused but told Al Jazeera that many graft cases filed were in fact bogus. High-level corruption cases have been reported by local media, he said, but a lack of evidence is ...

The Youth Enterprise Support (YES) Secretariat sys it hopes to receive between 5,000 to10, 000 applications from young entrepreneurs across the country. The YES Secretariat began receiving business plans, ideas and proposals from young and prospective entrepreneurs on Monday. According to the Secretariat, interested persons who meet the published eligibility criteria have from now till ...

The Most Rev Prof Emmanuel Kwaku Asante, outgoing Presiding Bishop of Methodist Church, Ghana, has said church choirs and gospel musicians should win souls for Christ with their songs instead of providing mere entertainment. “There is the need for you to realize that your primary duty in singing is not for entertainment so let what you sing ...

Striking university teachers are likely to call off their strike soon. This is after signing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with government following hours of discussions on Tuesday. The members of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) declared a nationwide strike five weeks ago to demand the payment of their book and research allowance. ...

The Vice-President, Mr Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, yesterday inaugurated the Senchi Consensus Implementation Advisory Group (IAG) and called on the members to work assiduously on the road map designed to achieve national economic stability. The IAG has been established in accordance with the National Development Planning Commission (NDPC) Act, (Act 479). Its membership comprises senior management staff of ...

The potentially global reach of social media networks is among their defining characteristics. For the first time in history, it is as easy to video-chat and share everyday news with friends on the other side of the planet as with friends in the same city. Yet the actual penetration of social media networks differs markedly ...

Two US men who spent three decades in prison for rape and murder, one of them on death row, have been released after DNA evidence proved their innocence. Mentally disabled half brothers Henry McCollum, 50, and Leon Brown, 46, were convicted in 1984 of raping and killing an 11-year-old girl in North Carolina. Recently analysed ...

About seven persons have been injured in an accident at the Kawukudi junction in Accra. The accident, involving a 207 Benz bus which was carrying passengers and a taxi cab occurred on Wednesday around 5 am. The 207 bus traveling from Gold House on the Airport road to Accra turned on its side when the ...

Do men experience stronger sexual impulses and desires than women do? A new study from the University of Texas at Austin says yes — and that this can explain why men in relationships are more likely to cheat. According to the researchers, men and women exhibit similar levels of impulse-control or self-restraint. But men ultimately fail at ...

Apple has confirmed that some celebrities’ iCloud accounts were broken into, but says it has found no evidence that this was caused by a breach of its security systems. Instead, the firm suggests perpetrators carried out their thefts by deducing victims’ log-in credentials. The statement follows the online publication of intimate pictures of about 20 ...

Some food vendors have threatened to defy the Ghana Health Service (GHS’s) ban on the sale of food on the streets. The vendors and their customers who spoke to Citi News dispelled talks that they are the cause of the cholera outbreak that health workers are battling to deal with. The cholera outbreak has so far ...