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Three persons have at least been confirmed dead in Bimbilla in the Northern region following sporadic shooting at about 9:30pm on Thursday January 11, 2018. Several others were rushed to nearby health facilities with gunshot wounds. Fusheini Issahaku, 35, Abdul Bassist Osman, 28, and  Salifu Razak, 35, who were hit by bullets were pronounced dead on arrival at the Bimbilla Government Hospital. About ten persons were hit by bullets when the unknown gunmen stormed a venue popular in the area where many gather for leisure and opened fire on the people without provocation and sped off. Mohammed Alabani 60, Mohammed…

While others might have celebrated their Christmas with much-spirited mind and excitement, mine never turned to be so. By life’s circumstances and uncontrollable situations, I rather found myself at one of Ghana’s populated hospitals in Accra for my Christmas and New Year. Conceivably, you might have thought I went there for a humanitarian cause, perhaps, to show some love for the afflicted or was admitted there myself. Sorry, but that wasn’t the case. It was my close relative that had to be admitted on Christmas day because he was ill and fell unconscious on the day. If you had ever…

International reggae superstar and Ghana’s first Grammy nominee, Rocky Dawuni, has called on fellow Ghanaians to support every government elected to manage the affairs of the state. According to the Cumbancha artiste, “that’s how African democracy has to be different from the Western democracy, so that we can be moving forward in every step we take”. He further opined that if all Ghanaians “jump behind the government and make them successful”, the opposition will be guided accordingly to demonstrate how they can improve the lots of the people to the next level when elected.” He dismissed outright, the school of…

General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia says the appointment of Martin Alamisi Amidu as the Special Prosecutor, is an indication that the New Patriotic Party government has an agenda, perhaps against the NDC. Mr. Asiedu Nketia did not understand why Mr. Amidu whom he said has openly shown dislike for one political party to be appointed to such an office. Mr. Amidu, who is a staunch anti-graft campaigner and a member of the National Democratic Congress, was on Thursday nominated the first Special Prosecutor by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the Flagstaff House.…

US President Donald Trump has reportedly lashed out at immigrants in a foul-mouthed Oval Office outburst. “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Mr Trump asked lawmakers on Thursday, in remarks widely reported by US media. The remark, made during talks on an immigration deal, was apparently in reference to people from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries. The White House made no attempt to deny the comment. In recent weeks, the Trump administration has been trying to limit the number of family members of immigrants who can enter the US, and has moved to…

Two firms have launched portable pumps to help breastfeeding mums collect their milk on the move. Women who use breast pumps often apply them several times a day and for periods of about 20 minutes or more. However, generally they have to be plugged into a power socket and the pump mechanism is noisy. Both Willow and the Freemie Liberty pump are designed to be worn more unobtrusively – placed inside a woman’s bra. Unlike traditional pumps, they are powered by rechargeable batteries and are very quiet. They are both on show at the CES tech trade fair in Las…

Two firms have launched portable pumps to help breastfeeding mums collect their milk on the move. Women who use breast pumps often apply them several times a day and for periods of about 20 minutes or more. However, generally they have to be plugged into a power socket and the pump mechanism is noisy. Both Willow and the Freemie Liberty pump are designed to be worn more unobtrusively – placed inside a woman’s bra. Unlike traditional pumps, they are powered by rechargeable batteries and are very quiet. They are both on show at the CES tech trade fair in Las…

WhatsApp has kicked off 2018 by readying a new update that could have a big impact on how you use the Facebook-owned chat app. WhatsApp has had a busy couple of weeks, and it looks like users are in store for a number of great surprises in 2018. The chat app recently enjoyed record amounts of use, with a staggering 75billion messages sent on New Year’s Eve 2017. WhatsApp says out of the 75billion messages sent, 13billion were photos and five billion included videos. WhatsApp users could have sent even more messages if the service didn’t go down for around two…

The Northern Regional Police Command will soon haul leaders of vigilante group, Invisible Forces, to answer questions on some “defiant” comments made by leader of the group Alhassan Ibrahim Abandi. Alhassan Ibrahim Abandi, who commands the Invisible Forces, a vigilante group with affiliation to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), was reported to have told his charges after a clean-up exercise on Saturday that all police commanders in the region have been told to refrain from ‘disturbing’ members of the group if they were suspected to be involved in a crime. He also said the leadership of the group were…

Welcome to the New Year, people. As this is the beginning of another year, it is usually the period that I like to take stock of the major happenings on the radio and television front in the previous year. As it happens in any given year, a lot of battles are fought on many and different fronts in 2017: station to station, programme to programme, presenter to presenter and many other aspects along the broadcast value chain. For me however, and before I go on to talk about other happenings in 2017 worth mentioning in subsequent write-ups, one of the…