Tepa Senior High School has qualified for the semi-final stage of the 2019 NSMQ after giving Accra Academy and St Johns Grammar School a challenging contest. In the first round of the contest, Tepa SHS attempted bonus and main questions correctly. Accra Academy striving their way through could not meet up with Tepa SHS whilst St Johns Grammar School was …
An Accra Circuit Court has remanded a 35-year-old mason for allegedly using a mallet to inflict several wounds on his wife’s head and hand. Prince Kofi Oppong Sarpong pleaded guilty to causing harm to Sarah Nkrumah, a hairdresser, and was convicted on his own plea but remanded into police custody to July 3, for sentencing. Prosecuting, Police Chief Inspector Kofi …
The 2019 National Youth Chess Championships which took place at the DPS International School Auditorium, Tema, over the weekend with over 90 players featuring. The players competed in seven different age categories; Under-10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and the new Under-8 and girls-only categories. This year’s event saw a new set of winners in all categories, an indication of the …
Another mudslide on the Kasoa-Accra highway rendered a part of the stretch impassable after Friday’s torrential rains. Silt and muddy pools of water covered most parts of the road, which is about a kilometre away from the Kasoa tollbooth, making it extremely difficult for drivers on the stretch. It resulted in a gridlock which forced some motorists to drive on …
A businessman (name withheld) and customer of Gold Coast Securities has painfully disclosed how his sibling died due to his inability to pay for his medical bills because his GHc1 million was locked up at the firm. Speaking in an exclusive with Kwabena Agyapong on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm the businessman said he invested Ghc1,000,000 (one million Ghana cedis) old currency …
Nigerian singer, songwriter, rapper and entertainer Teni gets her first nomination at the prestigious BET Awards in the Best New International Act category. Teniola Apata popularly known as Teni the entertainer is one of the fastest rising artist popularly known for her hit songs Case and Uyo Meyo. She hails from Ekiti State in Nigeria. We came across a billboard …
President Akufo-Addo has inspected two major projects ongoing in Accra aimed at finding a lasting solution to the perennial flooding in Accra. The two projects the president inspected were the Accra Sanitary Sewer and Storm Water Drainage Alleviation Project at Circle and the Drainage Construction at Kaneshie 1st Light Intersection. In June 2016, a two-year contract was awarded to Dredge …
Flood yesterday inundated most communities in Accra after about an hour of downpour in the national capital. The rains flooded many homes in areas such as Adabraka and surrounding communities, the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange, Kaneshie, Avenor, Alajo, Legon and Okponglo. Even though the downpour was without the characteristic force that had occasioned many flood situations in the country, it rendered …
President Akufo-Addo left Accra yesterday to begin a No six-day working visit to the newly created Oti,rth East and Savanna regions. The tour, which will begin at Jasikan in the Oti Region this morning, is the second phase of the president’s working visit of the newly created regions in the country. In April, this year, the president visited the Ahafo, Western …
Ace stand-up comedian, Senator has touched down in the capital city of Ghana ahead of the major comedy show on Saturday, April 20 dubbed Easter Comedy. The Nigerian comic arrived with his crew at the plush Kotoka International Airport and was welcomed by a group of media men and celebrity photographers, Twins Don’t Beg of Swag of Africa. Accra is …
