Ghanaian ‘rap god,’ M.anifest, has contributed to the making of a credit song for ‘Forever Tree,’ a groundbreaking Black historical fantasy short film. The film which stars Wendell Pierce and Olivia Washington premiered last week at the Bentonville Film Festival, an annual film festival helmed by Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning actress Geena Davis in ...

The Kassena Nankana District Assembly has failed to endorse the President’s nominee,  Williams Aduum as its new Municipal  Chief Executive (MCE). Of the 50 members of the assembly present and voted, 33 voted ‘Yes’, in his favour, representing 66 percent while 17 voted against his nomination. The exercise was supervised by the Municipal Electoral Commission ...

HFC Bank has opened two cash collection points at the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH) premises from which customers can access 24 hours banking services. This is to make it easy for non-subscribers to the National Health Insurance Scheme to make payments required for medical services. With the intention to establish a third outlet, one is ...

The Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Daniel Bugri Naabu has admitted guilt in making baseless allegation that the Upper Easter Regional Minister, Rockson Bukari and Gender Minister, Otiko Afisa Djaba were involved in the murder of former NPP Upper East Regional Chairman, Adams Mahama. According to him, he made the allegations ...

The Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin, is demanding an immediate apology from the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) for wrongfully accusing him of engaging in ‘galamsey’ activities. That followed a BNI report which named the chief among scores of other chiefs from eight regions of the country as being engaged in illegal mining activities.  A statement ...

Shares in Snapchat’s owner have sunk after it reported disappointing growth in the first three months of the year. In its first results since floating, Snap said the number of daily active users rose just 5% to 166 million compared with the last three months of 2016. That was two million fewer than expected, but ...

This article has been necessitated by my longtime observation that the Ghanaian media treat health in a restricted, straightjacket manner. The WHO defines health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. This will inform even a lay person that health is a multifaceted, ...

An Australian soldier has died during a training exercise in the Northern Territory. The man was taking part in a “routine” activity at the time, the Department of Defence said. It did not give details of the incident. The army has suspended all training exercises involving combat brigades while it reviews safety procedures, officials said. ...

Young people on the latest HIV drugs now have near-normal life expectancy because of improvements in treatments, a study in The Lancet suggests. Twenty-year-olds who started antiretroviral therapy in 2010 are projected to live 10 years longer than those first using it in 1996, it found. Doctors say that starting treatment early is crucial to ...

At least 22 people were killed when a wall collapsed during a wedding party in northern India. The guests had taken shelter from heavy rain under a tin shack when a wall collapsed onto it in the storm. Another 26 people were injured in the accident in Bharatpur, a district in Rajasthan state, 15 of ...

A Russian blogger arrested after posting a video of himself playing Pokemon Go in a church has been found guilty of insulting religious believers and inciting hatred. The court in the Ural mountains city of Yekaterinburg is yet to sentence Ruslan Sokolovsky, 22. The blogger filmed himself playing the game in 2016 in the local ...

The National Council of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), has directed all party officials serving in government to resign as soon as possible. The Council which was the second highest decision making of the party said combining party work and government work is not the best. The decision was taken at the council’s meeting ...

MTN Ghana may not be listing on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) anytime soon even though it plans to cede a part of its operations to investors. This is the indication from the managers of the Ghana Stock Exchange. The Director General of the GSE, Kofi Yamoah explains to Citi Business News that MTN will ...

An aide to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Northern Regional Chairman, Bugri Naabu, has questioned the integrity of the journalist who’s interview with his boss conveyed allegations suggesting the Upper East Regional Minister, Rockson Bukari, was involved in the murder the late Upper East Regional Chairman of the NPP, Adams Mahama. Simak Shirac, the special assistant ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo wants the newly launched Kumasi City Mall to be much more than a hub only for the sale of imported products. According to him, “it would be truly commendable if by the end of the first year of its operation, at least 20% of the goods that are sold here should be of ...

The Akufo-Addo administration is putting an end to the culture of government footing the medical bills of victims of mass accidents. It will instead lay the onus of catering for victims on the organisations implicated in the whatever hazard may occur. This new direction was announced by a Deputy Minister for Energy, Dr. Amin Adam, who ...