Category: Entertainment

The police have arrested the owner of a shrine after a gang of seven attacked miners near Antobia in the Western North Region.

The suspect, Victor Biney, alias “Abeiku”, was arrested during an operation at the shrine at Attakrom in the Juaboso District.

A search conducted on the premises revealed one military camouflage shirt, one pair of handcuffs, two machetes, one single-barrel gun, forehead flashlights, 17 AAA live cartridges and five smocks.

The others are one plastic basin containing particles of gold concentrate, mercury, the butt of a pump-action gun and other items.

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The government of Ghana has launched a Film Fund in the 2026 budget to revive the local film industry, including the Kumawood scene, which has struggled recently.

The fund aims to boost production, distribution, and marketing of Ghanaian films, creating jobs and driving cultural tourism.

Finance Minister, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson announced the fund during the reading of Budget on Thursday, November 13, which will receive seed capital to support domestic film clusters. The move signals a shift in how the state values film as an economic sector, recognizing its potential to create jobs, attract cultural tourism, and generate export earnings.

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The government has uncovered a scheme of money laundering involving businesspeople, both foreigners and Ghanaians, under the guise of imports. The security agencies have taken over the case, and according to the Minister of Finance, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, they are going to ensure that all taxes, stolen from such money transfers under the guise of imports, will be refunded. Aside from that, the Bank of Ghana (BoG), has also been tasked to apply regulatory sanctions against all banks that connived with the said business people to launder the money.…

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The Police has arrested a 37-year-old carpenter over the killing of a security guard at the Kyebi Presbyterian College of Education. Police said the suspect, identified as Kwame Arhin and also known as Abompe, was picked up on Sunday, November 16, 2025, in a bush near the school. In a statement issued by the Public Affairs Unit of the Eastern South Regional Command, it was explained that the victim, Jonas Baah Sarpong, worked as a security guard at the college. His body was found near the Kyebi Court Complex on…

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Retirement is one conversation many young people will shove under the carpet when it comes up. To them, a pension seems like a million years away.

They would rather assume it doesn’t exist. Ironically, the best time to brainstorm on a pension is when one is young.

It will already be too late to have such a conversation when one is old.

No matter how much we shy away from pensions, they will visit us all. Like death, retirement will happen to anyone who has life. If you are 30, retirement is only the same number of years away. If you are 40, it is only two decades away; the sum of five World Cup events.

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Five young people were injured during a stampede at the ongoing Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) screening exercise at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi on Wednesday, the Ashanti Regional Minister, Dr. Frank Amoakohene, has confirmed. According to Dr. Amoakohene, the victims sustained varying degrees of injury and are currently receiving medical attention. “I have directed that they receive the best possible medical care and full support to aid their recovery,” Dr. Amoakohene said in a statement issued on Wednesday, November 12, 2025. He described the incident as unfortunate and…

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President John Dramani Mahama says the government has set a target to raise Ghana’s poultry self-sufficiency from the current 12 per cent to more than 75 per cent by 2028 as part of a national effort to reduce dependence on imports and boost local production.

He made the announcement at the launch of the Nkoko Nkitinkiti Household and Backyard Poultry Production Initiative at the Jubilee Park in Kumasi on Wednesday, November 12, 2025.

President Mahama said the initiative forms part of the broader Feed Ghana Programme and the National Plan for Agricultural Transformation, Food Sovereignty, and Shared Prosperity.

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