Businesswoman Catherine Samba-Panza is seen as politically neutral Bangui mayor Catherine Samba-Panza, 59, has been elected interim president of the Central African Republic, making her the first woman to hold the post. She beat her rival Desire Kolingba in the second round of voting by the interim parliament. Meanwhile, EU foreign ministers agreed at a meeting […]

Actress Lesego Motsepe best known as “Letti Matabane” on South African/Mnet soap Isidingo has passed away. The motivational speaker and AIDS ambassador died today Monday January 20th, according to a statement released by her family. She was found dead at her home in Randburg, South Africa by her brother, Moemise, this morning at 11:00 and […]

According to my sources, Ghanaian Technology Company, RLG has been served with a writ to appear in court for the illegal use of ‘Wedding Song’ by Apaaste, as the default ringing tone on their android phones. According to copies of the writ which I received, dated December 27, 2013, NMJ Ghana, the management for the […]

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate in both the 2008 and 2012 elections, has been named as Ghana’s Most Influential Personality for 2013. Nana Akufo-Addo becomes the first politician to win the award instituted by e.TV Ghana, a private TV station, since 2009 to honour personalities who distinguished […]

Majority Leader and MP for Nandom, Dr. Benjamin Kunbour says he and all of his colleagues in Parliament owe Ghc300,000 each to private banks. He was reacting to a statement by the Minority Leader Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu on the floor of Parliament during their closing remarks on the 2014 Budget debate. The Minority Leader […]

Chris Christie  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is vowing to learn lessons from the “Bridgegate” scandal engulfing his administration — and says his public humiliation helped make him “readier” to be president. “I’m going to learn from this….I can’t tell you yet what it is I’m going to learn. But I am intent on learning […]

Ben Dotse Malor President John Dramani Mahama has appointed former BBC presenter, Ben Dotse Malor as Senior Communications Adviser and Head of Communications at the Presidency, a statement from the Ministry of Information has said. Mr  Malor  joins  the Presidency with a wealth of experience, expertise and accomplishments from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the  United […]

A timely intervention by the Aflao Police last Friday halted a ceremony by the Malian community at Aflao to marry off a 15- year-old basic school girl to her 35-year-old cousin at Aflao. This followed a hint by a member of the Malian community to the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ). The […]

Kofi Boakye with his son, Nana Kobby OVER THE weekend, Police Superintendent Kofi Sarpong, a popular gospel musician, was spotted by the cameras of NEWS-ONE, cruising in town with one of his three children. The musician said the boy, Nana Kobby Sarpong, is his second child. The last one, he revealed, was born on July 24, […]

The Deputy Minister for Youth and Sports, Joseph Yammin, has admonished all disgruntled members of the party to exercise some patience with the Government for the President to deliver on his promises. He was addressing a teeming of NDC supporters, mostly, the youth, that turned up for a keep fit programme organised in Kumasi recently […]

Komla Afeke Dumor with Herbert Mensah Herbert Mensah, a very close friend of late BBC broadcaster Komla Afeke Dumor, says Komla had so much pressure on him at the BBC. “He had so much pressure on him as a public, global figure; and a lot of the pressure is put on him because of his job, […]

SHOCKING! Komla Dumor Ghana’s celebrated international broadcaster, Komla Afeke Dumor is no more. For many people, the death of the ace broadcaster in his London home may have been sudden, but facts gleaned by DAILY GUIDE indicate that he nearly suffered a stroke last year and he has been experiencing a ‘lot of illness’ but […]

Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate in both the 2008 and 2012 elections, has been named as Ghana’s Most Influential Personality for 2013. Nana Akufo-Addo becomes the first politician to win the award instituted by e.TV Ghana, a private TV station, since 2009 to honour personalities […]

Evelyn Sekyi EVELYN SEKYI, a 21-year-old victim of a gas cylinder explosion at the Nyaniba Health Training School, a private nursing school in Tema, is dead. The final-year Health Assistant Clinic (HAC) student, who hailed from Elmina near Cape Coast in the Central Region, died last Saturday at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra […]

Samuel Hesse  Barely a few hours after the demise of ace broadcast journalist Komla Dumor, another journalist with Metro Television has died. The deceased has been identified as Samuel Hesse aka Sammy, a 33-year-old man who recently got married. According to friends, he drove to the hospital himself but a few hours later doctors pronounced […]

Gabriel Barimma, District Chief Executive (DCE) for Ahafo Ano South in the Ashanti region, is in trouble following his recent outburst in public. President Mahama is said to have asked the beleaguered DCE to appear before a committee at the Ministry of Local Government in Accra today January 20, 2014. Hon. Barimma is expected to […]

When Komla Dumor opted for a career in broadcasting he was unknowingly succumbing to the dictate of destiny. Even the movement from Nigeria, where he was schooling earlier back home, was predestined. It was like yesterday when he embarked upon the career of his choice—broadcasting—when private broadcasting was relatively in its infantile stage in Ghana. […]

Naomi Allotey-Quarshie Naomi Allotey-Quarshie thinks that having done extremely well for the country, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) should not have lost power at the time it did. She told DAILY GUIDE that winning many seats should be the objective of the party in 2016, which requires a certain skill which she has. Zooming on […]

THE NKORANZA Township in the Brong Ahafo Region on Thursday turned into a battlefield between wee smokers and the police. The wee smokers were incensed about the death of their colleague who died in police custody following his arrest in a swoop a day before. The death of Kwasi Damoah, 25, a drug peddler, sparked […]