GIST ALOUD

The World Bank has appointed Pierre Frank Laporte as the new Country Director for Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone. A statement from the Bank said his appointment takes effect from July 1, 2019 and he would be based in the World Bank’s Accra Office. Pierre Frank Laporte, a national of Seychelles, joined the World Bank in July 2015 as Country Director for Benin,...

Ghanaian footballer and former Chelsea star, Michael Essien is said to be the fifth richest footballer on the continent and Ghana’s richest footballer, according to Tuko.co.ke, a Kenyan news and entertainment website. Essien is followed on the list by Black Stars skipper Asamoah Gyan who took sixth place.Essien, 36, who has been capped 58 times for the...

Auwal Ibrahim Musa Rafsanjani A lead anti-corruption campaigner in Nigeria has said that corruption in Africa wears no nationality as the attitudes of politicians in Ghana and those of Nigeria are the same. Speaking on the Joy Super Morning Show Wednesday, Auwal Ibrahim Musa Rafsanjani, said: “what is happening in Nigeria is a reflection of what is...

DMC Ghana, an advertising agency in Accra has released a short film addressing Tramadol abuse in Ghana. The skit directed by Harold Yeboa Amoa stars Comedian Jerry who plays Jerry, a boy who died after abusing the painkiller. In the video, Jerry puts Tramadol pills into a flask containing juice, drinks it and enters the bathroom to shower, with the intention...

Ghanaian Music Maestro, Kojo Antwi was amongst a select West African musicians honoured at the Marley d’Or 18, held in the Burkinabe capital of Ouagadougou, last Friday. The event is held annually in memory of the late Reggae icon, Robert Nesta Marley (widely known as Bob Marley) who passed on to eternity on 11th May, 1981. In a telephone conversation...

Ashish J. Thakkar A young African billionaire and business tycoon, Mr Ashish J. Thakkar has urged African journalists and media practitioners to tell the story of Africa from the African perspective. He said in spite of the bountiful opportunities existing on the African continent, the continent is always featured in the western media with a negative...

A dozen African countries were present for the United States’ controversial relocation of its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the Isreali news portal Haaretz reported. The ceremony was held on Monday with adviser and daughter of president Donald Trump, Ivanka Trump, in attendance. It comes about five months after Trump took the decision...

Yvonne Chaka Chaka African music icon, Yvonne Chaka Chaka, has been awarded an honorary degree by a top South African public university – Rhodes University. Incidentally, the award is not for her illustrious music career that has impacted the world but for her humanitarian work. “The Degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD) (honoris causa) in recognition...

At least 17 people died when a tropical storm hit eastern Madagascar over the weekend, authorities said. More than 6,000 people were displaced by the storm, called Eliakim, the National Office of Risk and Disaster Management said in a statement late on Sunday. The tropical storm hit the island’s Mananara region, 635 km north-east of Antananarivo,...

Ashish Thakkar’s family emigrated from the Indian state of Gujarat to Africa in the 1890s. Thakkar, however, was born in Leicester in 1981, after his parents had moved to the United Kingdom in 1972 when Idi Amin enforced the expulsion of Asians from Uganda. Thakkar and his family returned to Africa to live in Rwanda before they were again forced to leave...