NEWS & REPORT

Ex-Biafran leader, Emeka Ojukwu, is dead

It has just been confirmed that Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu died in London in the early hours of later after a long illness in a hospital in the UK.

ENTERTAINMENT & FASHION

2011 Ghana’s most beautiful crowned

The Ashanti regional representative in the 2011 edition of TV3’s Ghana’s Most Beautiful beauty pageant, Salomey Amoakoa Mensah known as Akua, has been crowned winner of the this year’s pageant.
Akua, a product of Takoradi Polytechnic, after 13-weeks of grueling competition dazzled not only the judges but the show’s avid viewers to beat three others, Enam from the Volta region, Akweley from the Greater Accra Region and Abena from the Brong Ahafo region, on the finale night.

ENTERTAINMENT & HUMAN RIGHTS

Court awards N25m to Nigerian comedian for unlawful detention  
 

The Lagos High Court in Ikeja has Thursday ordered the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, to pay a sum of Twenty five million Naira (about $162,000) to popular actor and comedian Babatunde Omidina aka Baba Suwe as damages for his unlawful arrest and detention.

TOP NEWS

African student stabbed to death, mutilated in Russia

A Nigerian student, Mr. Akinola Olufemi, was found stabbed to death in southern Moscow with his ears cut off in a grisly murder, investigators said on Tuesday. 

NEWS

Gambians vote in condemned elections 

Gambians are voting in presidential elections condemned by the West African regional body, ECOWAS, as lacking legitimacy. ECOWAS said the election has been marked by the intimidation of opposition groups and voters. The incumbent President Yahya Jammeh, who seized power in 1994, is seeking re-election. 

COMMENTARY

Show love & care to people

By Odimegwu Onwumere 

In the recent times, people are growing from bad to worse. As a result, crusades are being amplified that we should not help people we do not know. We hear this on the radio, watch the advert on the Teevee and read it on the pages of the newspapers. What this means is that we should not give help to the people that we don’t know, for example ‘harbouring’ them, for the fear of not being ruined, because of the days which are evil.

ENTERTAINMENT

Actor’s court drama: ‘Business deal gone sour’
By Samuel Olatunji

Star actor, Jim Iyke, has been involved in real life drama more than any other actor in Nollywood. From getting a reporter arrested to having altercations with ex-lovers, he even went physical with Olisa Adibua. Indeed, he has been in the press several times for the wrong reasons.

NEWS

Ex-Ghanaian leader to head water body

By Sanday Chongo Kabange in Hong Kong  

Former Ghanaian president, John Agyekum Kufuor, has been named head of the world water body - Sanitation and Water for All partnership. Kufuor, who ruled the West African state 2001 to 2009 and former Chairperson of the African Union from will be the first high-level Chair of the Sanitation and Water for All partnership.