Nigerian artist Shallipopi grabbed the Artist of the Year trophy from TikTok at their awards show in Johannesburg after his track Laho from the Auracle album turned into the main soundtrack for dance challenges and viral clips across the continent. The platform said his sound basically rewired how people create content in Africa, and his Minister of enjoyment tagline became part of the whole social media vocabulary down there.
Nigerian creators swept multiple categories at the ceremony while TikTok's regional content boss mentioned how the country keeps producing talent that dominates short-form video spaces. The awards highlighted how apps like TikTok moved past simple entertainment and became cultural drivers that push African music...
Wendy Shay told a crowd at the BYK Concert that she plans to grab the top prize at next year's Telecel Ghana Music Awards since her fanbase keeps expanding and she thinks the timing finally works in her favor. The singer said other artists lose their minds competing for Artist of the Year, but she called herself the Queen and announced that her moment arrives in 2026.
If she actually wins the thing, Wendy Shay wants to throw a stadium show to celebrate with supporters who helped push her career forward.
A northern Ghana group called WEE-North just wrapped its annual meeting where they pushed their mission to get women into technical jobs that guys usually dominate, and the network has trained over 2,400 young women since launch. Network Manager Nancy Drost said they want to normalize women working in industrial trades while the new Board Chair Justina Agnes told everyone to ignore social pressure and chase whatever careers they want.
The meeting handed out awards to tech schools that helped with training programs, and a former student named Nyaaba Joyce explained how the skills landed her a job. St. Joseph's Technical Institute Principal Francis Achiaa said the organization basically saves unemployed women by teaching them marketable...
Ghana's National Service Authority just purged over 8,000 fake names from their payment system and saved the government roughly 68 million cedis per year after finding massive fraud across enrollment records. Acting Director-General Ruth Dela Seddoh said forensic checks flagged suspicious entries tied to three universities, and about 1,840 people got fully suspended while investigators keep digging. At least 10 staff members from the schools caught arrests, and some NSA workers are getting questioned about how unqualified randos ended up collecting government checks.
The scheme involved the University for Development Studies, Ghana Communication Technology University, and Akenten Appiah-Menka University of Skills Training and...
The head of Ghana's Fulbe community dropped a communique at a COGINTA conference in Tamale asking for major fixes around ID access problems, land ownership beef, and media coverage that makes them look bad. Alhaji Iddrisu Mohammed Bingle laid out how documentation barriers keep people from joining national development programs, while farmer-herder clashes keep popping off over territory disputes that never get properly resolved.
Youth association reps said criminal acts should get pinned on individuals instead of making the whole ethnic group take blame for what one person does. The gathering pulled in government officials, traditional leaders, and international partners who agreed to push inclusion efforts forward. Education gaps and...
UNDP Ghana dropped off a bunch of tech gear to the Forestry Commission through a Swiss-backed sustainability program aimed at cocoa-growing areas. The package covers laptops, printers, routers, projectors, and conference equipment headed to six Hotspot Intervention Areas where local groups coordinate forest protection work with cocoa farming communities.
The equipment upgrade came with office furniture and whiteboards to help regional stakeholders run better meetings and handle admin tasks. Forestry Commission climate official Joseph Appiah-Gyapong said the stuff will get split up among the sites to boost coordination between government offices and community partners working on landscape management.
Ghana's president just got handed a major traditional title by one of Nigeria's top chiefs during a whole ceremony down in Ile-Ife. The Ooni of Ife gave John Dramani Mahama the Aare Atayeto Oodua of the Source designation for his diplomatic work pushing African interests on the world stage, and the palace grounds got decked out with his portraits while crowds showed up to watch.
This marks the second time Mahama picked up honorary Yoruba titles since he grabbed the Aare Atolase of Offa back in 2015 from the Offa Kingdom. The Presidency said the whole thing strengthens cultural ties between both countries and recognizes how Mahama advocates for developing nations through multilateral frameworks.
Global InfoAnalytics boss Mussa Dankwah says the NPP could hold onto the Kpandai seat if party members stay tight and actually show up to vote since the NDC is dealing with messy infighting right there. The Tamale High Court tossed the original results after the NDC guy challenged them, and the Electoral Commission set up a do-over with the same candidates running again.
A fresh poll from Dankwah's outfit puts NPP candidate Matthew Nyindam at 50 percent against NDC's Daniel Nsala Wakpal sitting at 46 percent, but the pollster warned that the race counts as a statistical tie because the margin of error hits 3.9 percent. Nyindam got declared the winner initially before the court stepped in and wiped everything clean.
Managing News Editor Elvis Darko from Newscenta went off on Channel One TV about Parliament greenlighting commercial motorcycle operations, saying the government should fix buses and trains instead of throwing more bikes onto the roads. The guy pointed out that National Road Safety Authority reports show motorcycles already cause the worst carnage, with over 1,000 deaths between January and October out of roughly 2,400 total traffic fatalities.
Parliament pushed through the Okada Bill, which sets up safety rules like mandatory helmets and protective equipment for riders once the president signs off. Darko argued that motorcycles keep racking up the highest death rates, even though buses and cars move way more people around, and he...
