About 200 Ghanaian fans who were flown to Brazil to support the national team, the Black Stars at the World Cup have applied to the Brazilian authorities for asylum claiming they are Muslims fleeing religious conflict and persecution. Reports say they filed their applications in the southern city of Caxias do Sul, one of Brazil’s […]
By Femi Akomolafe I had a rather interesting discussion with an acquaintance after the Ghana Black Stars were kicked out of the World Cup. I thought it was interesting and worth sharing. Here goes: ACQUAINTANCE: Femi, greetings, it has been a while since we last read from you. What happened?
Over 30 illegal miners are feared dead at Banda Nkwanta at Bole in the Northern Region of Ghana after a mine pit in the Mole National Park in which they were working caved in on them Monday evening. Six bodies have so far been retrieved from the pit in which they where prospecting for Gold. An
Reports reaching our news desk confirm that the American man who was quarantined at the Nyaho Clinic in Accra on suspicion of carrying the Ebola virus has died. Sources at the Health Ministry say the man died on Monday. Meanwhile, The Health Ministry could not confirm or deny whether he died of the Ebola virus
By Femi Akomolafe “Colonialism and imperialism have not paid their score when they withdraw their flags and their police forces from our territories. For centuries the capitalists have behaved in the underdeveloped world like nothing more than war criminals. Deportations, massacres, forced labor and slavery have been the main methods used by capitalism to increase
Two-time defeated presidential candidate of the Ghana’s New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday admonished Ghanaians to be patient and keep faith because Ghana will work again if the NPP is voted onto power in 2016. Nana Akufo-Addo said made the remarks when he filed his nomination papers at the NPP headquarters at Asylum Down
As West Africa battles with an outbreak of the deadly ebola virus, a man identified as a US citizen is reported to be undergoing testing for the virus in Ghana. The outbreak has hit countries like Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia but there has been no confirmed cases yet in Ghana. The man who was
Ghana’s Ministry of Trade and Industry is to establish a 13-member committee to deal with the influx of foreigners engaged in retail trade in the country. Membership of the committee will be drawn from the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), the Police, Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI) and the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA).
Reports reaching ghnewsnow.com confirm the death of Ghanaian Hiplife artist Castro, popularly called ‘Castro The Destroyer’. Eyewitness reports say he drowned in a jet skiing accident at Ada, a town in Ghana’s Eastern Region. Black Stars captain Asamoah Gyan, a close friend of Castro was with him when the accident happened but was reportedly saved
Two suspected armed robbers, one of them a 14-year-old junior high school (JHS) student, have been arrested by the Kumasi Manhyia Police in Ghana for robbing a storekeeper at Asokore-Mampong, a suburb of Ghana’s second largest city. Tawfic Ibrahim, in the company of the juvenile and three others, was alleged to have attacked the storekeeper with
