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Hammer of The Last Two says bread paid what music would not. His ₵6,000 a day is his own arithmetic
On Konnected Minds Podcast, the producer also said Ghana's arts have no regulator. A 2020 law created one, but QMS could not find a public record of it regulating music.
Shakahola pastor gets 200 years in Kenya. In Ghana, no law licenses a church or vets a pastor
Paul Mackenzie was sentenced for 191 murders, 190 of them children, after Kenyan police had reports about him from 2017. In Ghana, churches register like companies, and chaining in prayer camps, banned since 2012, was still documented in 2023.
UPSA graduates three faculties in five days as 178 linked to altered results wait
The University of Professional Studies, Accra held three sessions of its 18th Congregation from 26 to 30 October. In September, its Vice-Chancellor said graduation had been withheld for students linked to the alteration of more than 500 results.
A tree residents tie to Okomfo Anokye falls at Asante Agona, 152 years after Kumasi's
Videos shared on social media show a tree that people in Asante Agona say Okomfo Anokye planted in 1690 uprooted by strong winds on 3 November. In January 1874, a tree in Kumasi's market linked to him also fell.
3.9 tonnes of cocaine in a “plastic waste” container from Ghana: what is known about the Dunkirk case
French customs found 167 bales of cocaine, worth about €225 million, in a container from Ghana. Ten people are charged in Accra, four of them Customs officers. Prosecutors allege a scan showed anomalies. All are presumed innocent.
The viral "scariest video" of 2 November is from April 2024. A Krobo custody confession, re-served as new, 919 days on
A clip of a handcuffed man alleging that a chop bar operator paid him to kill three women spread on X and on news sites as if it were new. It was first posted on 27 April 2024. Since then, QMS News could find no police statement, court report or verdict on the case.
Princess Shyngle says a stranger tried to pay with a card in her name. Here is how card details leak, and what to do
The actress says an American Express card bearing her name was presented at a venue called Lagos District, and the owner reportedly stopped the payment. Who tried it, and how they got her details, is not known.
Sakumono killings: suspect arrested near Ejisu, but police papers disagree on his age and on who owed the money
George Atuguba, 57, and his niece Irene, 47, were shot dead at NTHC Estate, Sakumono, on 30 October. A suspect is in custody. Two police documents give his age as 58 and 72, and the newest police statement's wording has led some outlets to report the alleged ₵500,000 debt the other way round.
No arrest yet in Javits Frimpong's killing; the viral "suspect captured" video shows an Orange County Sheriff's Office sign
A verified X account said overnight that police had captured a suspect. As of Monday morning, 2 November, the NYPD had announced no arrest and no newsroom had reported one. The video's first frame shows a sheriff's office sign, and there is no Orange County in New York City.
TraffiTech-GH speed cameras go live as an AI summary on X gets a viral Accra crash wrong
The police MTTD's camera system started on Sunday, 1 November. On the same day, an AI trend summary on X tied it to a crash video posted by fitness creator Raj Explores, saying a blue car hit him that day. His CCTV clip shows a dark pickup, and he says the crash was on 7 October.
Javits Frimpong, 15, shot dead on his way to school in the Bronx; his father says he had reported bullying several times
Police are looking for three teenagers and, as of 1 November, had made no arrest and given no motive. New York's mayor says President Trump agreed to grant the boy's mother a visa; the White House had not confirmed it. Ghana's government says it will pay the full cost of her travel.
Fabulous Ladies footballer who drove a tricycle is killed near Kumasi; two young men in police custody
Agartha Takyiwaa played for a women's club in Kumasi and drove a passenger tricycle to earn a living. Police say two suspects, aged 21 and 19, hired a female rider on 29 October, killed her and took her tricycle. No charge has been reported.
"Kofi Boat" and "Pascal" plead guilty in US$100m romance scam case
Two Ghanaians described by US prosecutors as "chairmen" of a Ghana-based fraud network have pleaded guilty in New York and agreed to about US$41m in restitution. Neither has been sentenced.
Free Kalyppo, free fuel: the crash-scene rush that keeps killing people
A video of people carrying away drinks from an overturned Kalyppo truck went round this week. The same rush at fuel tankers has killed people in Ghana, and the law calls it stealing.
The new Accra–Tema Motorway keeps Nkrumah's concrete in the middle. The toll is still unknown
The 10-lane rebuild is 53 percent done after 805 days. The four concrete lanes of the 1965 motorway become the express road; the toll rate has not been set.
El Niño: Ghana projected at about 7,000 extra heat deaths by March, 12th in the world
The Climate Impact Lab's tracker puts Ghana among the countries most exposed to El Niño's heat between October and March. The Met Agency's seasonal forecast warns of heat stress, but no El Niño statement was found from NADMO, the agric or health ministries, or Parliament.
Operation Cold Chop: how Ghana's 1966 coup happened while Nkrumah was in the air
Nkrumah left Accra on 21 February 1966 for a peace mission to Hanoi. Before he landed in Peking, soldiers and police had taken the country, and US files show Washington knew a coup was being planned almost a year earlier.
Who threw the bomb at Kulungugu? Ghana's oldest open question
On 1 August 1962 a grenade met Kwame Nkrumah at a border village near Bawku. A child died, three ministers were tried, a Chief Justice was sacked over the verdict — and the bomber was never found.
Year of Return, Beyond the Return, Black Star Experience: three names, and the visitors kept coming
The 2019 campaign's $3.3 billion figure was arrivals multiplied by average spend. Since then two governments have renamed the diaspora push twice. Arrivals rose under both, but visitors spent less in 2025.
Taifa railway fire: a trader says she had just paid rent. On railway land, who collected it?
Fire gutted wooden kiosks by the railway at Taifa on Tuesday. GNFS says no casualty has been recorded and has not given a cause. The Railway Authority has said leasing its land without approval is unlawful.
The film studio Nkrumah built is now TV3: how Ghana sold the GFIC
The Ghana Film Industry Corporation was set up at Kanda to tell Ghana's own story. In 1996 the state sold 70% of it to a Malaysian TV company, and the films it made are still unaccounted for.
Taken in 1874, back in Kumasi on loan: the story of the Asante gold
British troops packed the Asante king's gold the night they entered Kumasi in 1874. In 2024, 32 pieces returned to the city, but only on a three-year loan.
The Sammy Gyamfi "licence or not" clip: two tapes, and what each one leaves out
A 40-second phone video and a 55-second "full" version of the GoldBod CEO's March remarks have split Ghana since 22 October. The longer tape adds his plan to register miners, and it still contains the line about licences.
From Zinabu to a ₵20m fund: how Ghana's movie money dried up
The video boom that began in 1987 ran on discs sold in markets and traffic. One by one, the ways producers got paid have closed, and the new ones barely pay.
Obuasi SHTS headmaster case: the key dates so far
The headmaster has been suspended, interdicted and referred to the police over allegations of sexual misconduct, which he denies. He is also suing the journalist who investigated him.
Fact check of four history claims made against Christianity on UTV's Group Chat podcast
A guest on Nana Aba Anamoah's Group Chat podcast called Christianity "deceit" and backed it with four claims about the Bible's history. One is false, two go further than the record allows, and one rests on a real fact with the wrong conclusion.
Obuasi SHTS complaints reached officials four times before the case broke, documentary says
Before Ghana heard about the allegations against the Obuasi SHTS headmaster, a municipal chief executive, an education director, school management and parents had each been told. The headmaster denies the allegations.
Kwame Nkrumah was buried three times before he came to rest in Accra
Visitors still go to his renovated tomb at Nkroful, but he has not been there since 1992. Guinea buried him first, after a fight over his body in 1972.
New footage shows a brown River Ankobra meeting the sea, weeks after it was declared cleared
A video filmed at the mouth of the Ankobra on 19 October drew tens of thousands of views. We checked it against the Lands Minister's September patrol, the government's operations and the published science.
Accra flooded three days after the government set a 2027 date for the Odaw dredging
At least 12 people died in Accra's floods on 29 June. The city has fought floods along the same river since 1961, and the 2015 inquiry's call to dredge it is still not done.
For two years, the middle stripe of Ghana's flag was white
Theodosia Okoh's 1957 design lost its gold stripe to the CPP's white in January 1964, the month of the one-party referendum. The gold was back by the end of February 1966, the month of the coup.