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An innovative technological platform has been launched to expand the marketing of locally produced movies, whilst offering movie lovers a variety of choice. The “Kumawood App” is a digitized movie content created for subscribers of telecom network, MTN. The mobile platform hosts local movie content, short and funny video clips and celebrity news as a one-stop shop for customers. Noel Kojo-Ganson, General Manager in-charge of Consumer Marketing at MTN Ghana, describes the local film making as a “green industry” which will find the App a useful platform to launch them into the digital world. “The provision of the Kumawood App…

After his below par performance at the 2016 general elections, Ivor Kobina Greenstreet of the Convention People’s Party appears to have found a new love in sports – scuba diving. The almond fruit lover came close to nature in far away Bahamas in the midst of untamed sharks ready to devour any prey at the least provocation. Scuba diving may be Ivor’s favourite sports if he is unperturbed about the scare he received from the hungry sharks in the belly of the ocean. The former member of the Ghana National Rifle Association and the 2015 para grand prix competitor is…

Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen, has lauded the apology rendered by two of the party’s members who have been in a collision course in the last week. The feud between the Gender and Social Protection Minister, Otiko Adisa Djaba and the Northern Regional Chairman of the party, Daniel Bugri Naabu started at the weekend when the latter allegedly disrupted a meeting being chaired by the former. Angered by the action, Ms Djaba accused Mr Naabu of taking bribe in the form of goats and cows to offer jobs. There have since been back…

The Bank of Ghana has warned the public against the activities of a company it says has been  taking cash deposits from people without the proper licencing. According to the Bank, the operations of the company, MMM Ghana, constitute that of a ponzi scheme through a virtual office “hence anyone who does business with MMM Ghana does so at his or her own risk”. MMM Ghana claims to be in 118 countries across the globe and with over 226 million participants. It pride itself of giving participants a 30 per cent monthly interest on their deposits and states that it…

A cross section of Ghanaians have called on the Government of Ghana to declare the memorial of the May 9,  2001 Accra Stadium Disaster a national day of observance. They were speaking after the annual May 9 Remembered street walk in Kumasi, the Ashanti regional capital on Saturday 6 May 2017. The walk was organised by the sponsors and founders of the yearly May 9 Remembered initiative led by Mr Herbert Mensah, former Kotoko chairman. Some of the participants were of the view that the memorial of a national disaster of such magnitude must be embraced by the state as…

Former HIV/AIDS Ambassador Joyce Dzidzor Mensah got the whole country talking about her again when she wrote a bizarre sort of tribute to her husband, who had died after a battle with an illness nobody seems able to identify. The manner of her revelation about her husband’s death, plus another follow up post, are just the latest display from Mensah which puts her mental health status under question. There’s no doubt Mensah has gone through a lot, and she herself has admitted to suffering a series of mental issues in the past including depression that turned suicidal. Her story is a…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has asked owners of the newly launched Kumasi City Mall not to make the place the sale point of imported goods, but also Ghanaian goods. “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 Ghanaian origin, and the percentages increase as Ghanaian industrial production rapidly expands,” he said Speaking at the launch of the mall, he bemoaned the fact that Ghana continues to be a retailer of cheap imported goods, whilst the capacity of local…

President Akufo-Addo has described mocked pictures, videos and comments flying on social media, following the opening of the Kumasi City Mall, as an act of fear. He says the social media troll was necessitated by the fear that some people will no longer have the bragging right of owning the biggest facility in their communities. “They fear they no longer have the bragging right,” the President remarked as he joined the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II and other dignitaries to officially open the mall, described as the largest shopping center in the northern sector. The ninety-five million dollar mall is…

A chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Daniel Bugri Naabu, has backed down on the murder allegation leveled against the Northern Regional Minister, Rockson Bukari, claiming it was “a slip of tongue”. The Northern Regional NPP chair stated in an apology letter dated May 10 that he had no facts whatsoever to back his claim that the Regional Minister had a hand in the murder of Adams Mahama in 2015. “I do not have any facts beyond the know (sic) police investigations on the matter and I am truly sorry to the minister, his family and all those I have hurt…