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One person has been shot dead at Kpatinga in the Gushegu municipality of the Northern Region where chieftaincy violence has injured at least five people and left about 20 houses burnt since last Friday. The deceased, identified as Alhassan Abass, a 55-year-old traditional healer, was caught up in crossfire between security officers deployed in the area to maintain peace, and some civilians Sunday morning. This was after a military officer was said to have been shot by an unknown person from one of the feuding factions. “A BNI vehicle was used to convey his remains,” an eyewitness told our correspondent…

Comedian Funny Face has called for calm in the midst of a suit by a US-based Ghanaian woman. The comedian says the suit is just a case of a relationship gone bad. The US-based woman, Mary Ama Boansi, is alleging that Funny Face took monies from her with the promise that he would marry her. According to court documents, the comedian failed to pay back an amount of 53,105.53 dollars when the relationship turned sour. Funny Face, according to the documents, proposed marriage to Mary Ama Boansi after they met and fell in love in 2016. Mary Ama Boansi subsequently…

Kumawood actress Rose Mensah, popularly known as Kyeiwaa, has married again after her previous marriage to Kumasi-based spare parts dealer, Daniel Osei, ended just after four days. The 57-year-old actress got married to Micheal Kissi Asare in a court wedding in Massachusetts, United States of America. The simple ceremony was attended by only a few friends and family of the couple. In 2015, the actress returned her ring and drinks after she discovered that Mr Osei was already married to another woman. Kyeiwaa was accompanied by her father and some Kumawood actors and actresses to end the marriage. View this…

The 62nd annual Grammy Awards take place in Los Angeles on Sunday night. Billed as “music’s biggest night”, the ceremony is more like “music’s longest day” – with festivities kicking off at lunchtime in LA and stretching out into the night. Comfortable shoes are advised. Pop star Lizzo leads the nominations this year, with eight in total, including album and song of the year. Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X are close behind with six each. All three represent a new vanguard of pop – charismatic and non-conformist, with songs that defined the last 12 months (Lizzo’s Truth Hurts, Billie’s…

Staff of the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority are demanding the immediate removal of their board chairman, Air Commodore Rexford G.M. Acquah (retd), who they have accused of unprofessionalism. He is alleged to be working outside his mandate and micromanaging the Authority with disregard to the functions of management and staff. A letter from the staff of the Authority to the Minister of Aviation dated January 23, claimed Air Commodore Acquah  has “become abusive and abrasive in nature” towards top management the rank and tile of the Authority. “[He] has had lots of run-in with members of staff,” the letter signed…

A Consultant Urologist at the Kumasi South Hospital, Dr Samuel Amanamah, says it’s time to pay critical attention to erectile dysfunction (ED) among men as when not well treated, puts men at risk of getting stroke and heart attacks. This is as a result of people turning to aphrodisiac mixtures which ends up compounding the issue as it also raises their risk of contracting other diseases. Also, the impact of ED goes beyond the medical condition with an adverse social impact on families and societies. In an interview with the Daily Graphic, the consultant urologist said about 50 per cent…

Lesotho’s prime minister and his wife are caught up in a murder investigation involving allegations so sinister that they have the makings of a crime novel. Pumza Fihlani tries to unpack the mystery from the capital of the southern African nation, Maseru. People are going about their business in the city, vegetable vendors line the streets, taxis whizz pass each rushing to the next passenger. On the surface everything is in order but newspaper billboards plastered on shop windows and tied to lamp posts give the first indication that something is deeply wrong in Lesotho. One headline reads in bold…

Quique Setien suffered his first defeat as Barcelona manager as Valencia claimed their first home win over the Spanish champions since 2007. The hosts broke the deadlock when Jordi Alba deflected Maxi Gomez’s powerful strike past Marc-Andre ter Stegen. Gomez, who had a first-half penalty saved by Ter Stegen, completed the scoring in the second half. There were unsavoury scenes before the game as rival fans clashed outside the Mestalla Stadium. Setien had enjoyed a good start to his Barca reign, guiding the club to victories over Granada in La Liga and UD Ibiza in the Copa del Rey round of…

Commercial rail passenger services from Takoradi to Tarkwa in the Western Region will commence from February 5, the Ghana Railways Company has announced. It follows the completion of rehabilitation works on the Takoradi to Tarkwa rail line and successful test runs. Passenger service on the narrow-gauge line had been out of service since September 2007. The rehabilitation of the Takoradi to Tarkwa rail line which started a year ago by the government of Ghana, forms part of the development of the Western rail lines. A statement issued Saturday by the Ghana Railways Company Limited said several tests runs conducted on…

Former assembly members of the Kwahu Afram Plains North District Assembly will next week be paid their ex-gratia totalling over 67,000 cedis. Each of the 31 elected members who served between October 2015 and October 2019 will receive 1,500 cedis while the 28 government appointees who also served for the last two years are will walk home 750 cedis each. The 59 members, of which 15 of them retained their seats in the last district level election, had planned to picket at the Assembly on January 23 to prevent the new newly constituted assembly from being inaugurated. The 15 had…