I think most energy analysts would have been shocked to learn that roughly three months into a total closure of the Strait of Hormuz, oil would be trading at just over $100 a barrel. I certainly expected prices to be significantly higher by now. The physical math seems indisputable: take that much supply off the…
Nana Agyei Baffour Awuah, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Manhyia South, has criticised the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government over how it is handling illegal mining, also known as galamsey. He said there is currently “no fight” against the problem. During a TV interview, the lawmaker questioned whether the government’s efforts…
Economist and University of Ghana lecturer Professor Patrick Asuming has urged the public not to panic over the recent depreciation of the Ghana cedi, saying the currency remains relatively stable despite losses against major foreign currencies. Speaking in an interview after a recent Reuters report on currency movements, Prof. Asuming said the cedi’s decline has…
Eight persons have been arrested in connection with illegal mining activities at the Amomaso Forest near the Berekum Municipality in the Bono Region. According to a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer of the Bono Regional Police Command, Chief Inspector Thomas Akeelah, the suspects were arrested following a distress call received on May 20,…
Singapore’s economy has grown faster than expected in the first three months of the year as furious demand for AI chips has outweighed the fallout of the US-Israel war on Iran. Singapore’s gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 6 percent year-on-year in the first quarter, the Ministry of Trade and Industry said on Monday, comfortably beating…
Award-winning rapper Sarkodie has appealed to event organisers outside Accra to schedule his performances earlier, saying performing deep into the night takes a toll on his body and affects the quality of his delivery on stage. In a post shared on Facebook, the rapper explained that although he appreciates the party culture in many towns…
A herder was arraigned in court for the alleged m8rder of a farmer who tried to stop him from grazing on his farm. An Abuja-based lawyer, Ebuka Ikeorah, who disclosed this in a Facebook post on Monday, May 25, 2026 decried the rampant and indiscriminate k!llings across the country. According to Ikeorah,…
A top neurosurgeon has been suspended after having s£x with a vulnerable female patient and prescribing her addictive painkillers. Dr Chirag Patel, who worked at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff, UK, first operated on the woman – referred to as Patient A – to remove the damaged part of a disc in…
A former footballer who k!lled his own brother before eating his eye has been found de@d in an apparent suicide in prison. Matthew Hertgen, 31, was found de@d in his cell at the Mercer County Jail in New Jersey on May 8, 2026, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed. An official cause of d£ath has not been released,…
The Yobe State Police Command has rescued an abandoned newborn baby girl in Kallalawa village, Damaturu. The spokesperson for the command, SP Dungus Abdulkarim, disclosed this in a statement on Monday, May 25, 2026. According to Abdulkarim, the newborn estimated to be one day old, was immediately taken to a hospital where doctors…
