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MTN Ghana is throwing its annual Christmas concert at the Accra International Conference Centre, and the lineup has Joe Mettle, Kuami Eugene, and Kofi Kinaata locked in for performances. The gospel artist brings worship tracks, the highlife guy delivers his chart stuff, and the Fante rapper does...

Efya pushed back against people saying she has attitude problems, and she thinks the whole thing comes from her refusing to let strangers walk all over her. The Ghanaian singer told a TV show that fans act like paying for streaming means they can say whatever they want to her face. She called...

Klint Da Drunk ditched his music dreams after watching 2Face Idibia perform at IMT Enugu, where both were students. The comedian said he heard just a couple of lines from 2Face on stage, and that was enough to make him pack it up and head home for good. He figured out pretty quickly that singing...

The court shut down Daddy Lumba's funeral after his maternal relatives claimed they got pushed aside during planning. Kofi Owusu, the family head, can't move forward with arrangements, and Transitions Funeral Home has to keep the body until everything gets sorted out. The judge said the family...

Kaakyire Kwame Appiah dropped a visualizer for his new track with King Paluta, and the Afrobeat banger is already making waves. The song brings together Kaakyire's vocals and Paluta's rap skills in a collaboration that has Ghanaian music fans pretty hyped. The visuals lean into the party vibe...

The Accra High Court pushed back its call on whether Daddy Lumba's body can be released. His maternal family wants to stop anyone else from grabbing the remains of the highlife artist, and they say Akan custom gives them exclusive rights to handle everything. The court was supposed to rule...

Ghana's Roads and Highways Minister Governs Kwame Agbodza just set up a nine-person advisory board to help fix the country's busted road system. The group has heavy hitters like Finance Minister Cassiel Ato Forson and a bunch of engineering and surveying experts who'll tackle some pretty gnarly...

Reverend Winfred Korku Domi from the Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Ghana told his congregation at the SSNIT Flats district in Ho that believers need to reject the devil's attempts to rob them of their joy. The pastor, who also works as an assistant headmaster at Mawuli Senior High School...

Dr Joseph Siaw Agyepong from Jospong Group told reporters that African countries need to stop treating garbage like a problem and start seeing it as a cash machine that could solve youth unemployment across the continent. The executive chairman said his company is pushing into markets all over...

Ghana's military shot down rumors about UN peacekeeping pay after social media went wild, claiming soldiers get $300 daily. Captain Veronica Adzo Arhin from the Armed Forces told reporters the real number is $46 per day per soldier, and the government hands $35 straight to troops while keeping...

MTN Ghana threw its yearly Christmas event at the Accra International Conference Centre, and people showed up for the worship vibes and free stuff. The telecom company got retired cop Effia Tenge, soccer coach Prosper Nartey Ogum, broadcaster Anita Ekua Akuffo, and the Nungua Mantse to do...

A guy got beaten to death in Lanja after people accused him of stealing chickens, and his family wants someone held accountable. The victim's uncle, Yakubu Mohammed, said his nephew went out one day and never came back. Turns out the 20-year-old tried selling some birds at Bakpaba market, got...

Most of the local party coordinators in Sissala East just threw their weight behind Bawumia for the NPP presidential nomination. The former VP got backing from 18 out of 21 electoral area coordinators, who apparently like how competent and humble he seems. The party's picking its candidate at...

Ghana's military boss, Lieutenant General William Agyapong, said the government plans to build 2,000 homes for troops across the country. The defense chief announced that 700 of these will go up around Accra at five different bases. He mentioned that if everything works out, another 8,000 units...

NPP elder Hackman Owusu-Agyemang said goodbye to Edward Kofi Omane Boamah and called the guy brilliant and super committed, even though they ended up on opposite sides of politics. The former defense minister died when a Ghana Air Force chopper went down back in August, and the crash killed...

The PTA at Bawku Senior High School dropped off a Nissan Navara pickup and 400 desks, but chairman Abugri Haruna warned kids that breaking stuff means paying out of pocket. The school board backed his stance that students caught wrecking property face consequences. Headmaster Bukari Abugbilla...

Palestine's foreign minister handed Ghanaian journalist Kwesi Pratt a medal for backing their cause during the Gaza conflict. Varsen Aghabekian showed up in Accra and gave the award on behalf of President Mahmoud Abbas, saying Pratt deserves recognition for pushing solidarity between the two...

The US Embassy in Trinidad just told H-1B and H-4 visa applicants that they need to flip all their social media to public mode for background checks. The announcement hits everyone trying to get specialty worker visas or tag along as dependents. State Department officials are expanding their...

Jamaica's health minister, Christopher Tufton, says leptospirosis cases and deaths are dropping after cleanup crews hit the streets. The government has already treated over 500 high-risk communities, and dengue plus flu numbers are sitting below normal levels for the season. Tufton told people...

Usain Bolt and Puma just dropped 5 million Jamaican dollars each on two high schools that got absolutely demolished by Hurricane Melissa. St Elizabeth Technical and William Knibb Memorial both took massive hits, with entire roofs ripped off exam prep buildings, dorms trashed, and walls knocked...