Osei Boateng: Legendary Ghanaian Chorale Music composer is dead
By : Sandra Asante Legendary Seventh-Day Adventist composer and singer, Akuamoah Osei Boateng has passed on. The legendary Seventh-Day Adventist songwriter and singer passed away at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) after a short illness. He was born into a Muslim family but converted to the Seventh-day Adventist Church in his youthful years. His […]
George Darko: Ghana loses another Highlife music icon
By: Franklin ASARE-DONKOH Nana George Darko, a Ghanaian musician legend described as the King of Burger Highlife and Tufuhene of Akropong, is reported dead. This sad news happened on Wednesday, March 20, 2024. The cause of the death of the ‘Akoo te Brofo’ hitmaker is currently unknown. Nana George Darko gained immense popularity in the […]
Mr Ibu: Nollywood actor John Okafor dies in Lagos
Nigerians are mourning popular Nollywood actor John Okafor, better known as Mr Ibu, who has died at the age of 62. “I announce with [a] deep sense of grief that Mr Ibu didn’t make it,” said Actors Guild of Nigeria President Emeka Rollas on Saturday. He said the actor had a cardiac arrest. Okafor rose […]
Bawku: One person shot dead, five wounded
By Peter Agengre One person is confirmed dead in Wednesday’s afternoon shooting incident in the Bawku Municipality. Five other persons are said to be receiving medical attention at an undisclosed health facility in the Upper East Region. The District Chief Executive, Amadu Hamza, who confirmed the incident to GBC News said the unfortunate incident happened […]
Explosion at quarry site in Shama: 4 confirmed dead, many missing
Four people have been confirmed dead with many others still missing after an explosion at a quarry site at Shama in the Western Region on Sunday dawn.Several others have been injured. From Shama, Dotsey Koblah Aklorbortu reports that the explosion occurred at a quarry site of G-Omini Quarry in the Shama District of the Western […]
Nana Yenhyira Kwadwo Kumah found dead in bush near Goaso
By: Franklin ASARE-DONKOH A motionless body of the Krontihene of the Goaso Traditional Area in the Bono Region, Nana Yenhyira Kwadwo Kumah, has been found in a bush near the town. The body has been deposited at the Goaso Government Hospital mortuary. In an interview, a son of the late Krontihene, Mr. Richard Kwabena Acheampong, […]
Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin confirmed dead in crash
Russian investigators have confirmed that Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was among the 10 people killed when their plane crashed Wednesday, after carrying out genetic tests. Prigozhin, who led a failed uprising against the Kremlin, had previously been named as one of those on board the private plane, which crashed in a field northwest of Moscow […]
Outspoken Cameroonian Journalist found dead after reported missing
By: Edmond Tetteh An outspoken Cameroonian radio journalist has been found dead, after he disappeared last week in a suspected abduction. Martinez Zogo was director of the privately-owned ‘Amplitude FM’ and hosted a popular radio show called ‘traffic jam’. He had recently spoken on air about an alleged embezzlement case involving wealthy businessmen and top […]
One more Appiatse disaster victim passes on
One more person involved in last January’s Appiatse disaster has passed on. The victim suffered a spine injury and has been in hospital all this while. He passed on at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital where he was on admission last Friday. John Opare, 27, developed a spine injury during the disaster which happened in […]
Western Region loses another Imam
By Marie Aziz Tunde The demise of the Western Regional Imam, Alhaji Sanni Abdullah Bawa, has been reported. The sad event occurred on Thursday, September 23, 2022, at the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital in Sekondi in the Western Region. He was 72. Imam Alhaji Sanni was turbaned substantive Regional Imam on May 21, 2022, after […]
