Author: Gifty Baoateng

Africa’s biggest YouTuber, Wode Maya has revealed that he was the one that suggested to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, to give American streamer, IShowSpeed a Ghanaian passport. The clarification by the Ghanaian, follows an unwarranted public outburst by broadcast journalist with GHOne television, Lilly Mohammed, on the person of the minister questioning the basis for the issuance of the passport. The minister just a day after IShowSpeed, 21, visited Ghana as part of the 20-nation African tour, announced that the Ministry has agreed to issue a Ghanaian passport to the social media sensation aimed at encouraging…

Popular Nigerian musician, Davido, does not want to be left out in the incredible fun American streamer, IShowSpeed had while in Ghana. He wants to have the experience of being massaged with shea butter by multiple women at the Shea Butter Museum in Accra, Ghana. The streaming sensation, was in Ghana for the last but one tour of his Africa tour. He touched down on Monday morning and the entire day was used to showcase the Ghanaian hospitality and culture. Due to the tight nature of his schedule, Speed as he is affectionately called was taken to only the Eastern…

IShowSpeed, the popular American streamer, who is in Ghana for a tour, has for the first time revealed his Ghanaian roots. According to the 21-year old, with an incredible following of over 50 million on YouTube alone, he is partly Ghanaian. His mother, he has disclosed in an interview is from Ghana. “I have family members who are Ghanaian. My mother is actually Ghanaian. I’m home; my mother is a Ghanaian” he disclosed. His bodyguard Rudi, is also a Ghanaian. Popularly known as Speed, the social media sensation arrived in Ghana earlier on Monday, January 26. According to information circulating,…

Content creator and American streamer, iShowSpeed has touched down in Ghana, for his much-anticipated Ghana livestream programme. The American has been in other African countries as part of his continental tour. In the early hours of Monday, January 26, he touched down at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) and was seen leaving with a tight security. His arrival was quiet and according to reports, this has been the case in every country he has visited. TheNewRepublic has sighted a video of him in a waiting vehicle, and granting short interview before departing to his hotel. He was heard in the…

A 2-day residential training workshop for selected members of the Private Newspapers and Online News Publishers Association of Ghana (PRINPAG) has come to a close today, Sunday, January, 25 at Ada. The training programme, organized in partnership with the Bank of Ghana (BoG), was themed “Resetting the economy: The role of journalists, news publishers, and media owners”. First in the series, the training saw the Association bring together 44 leading publishers, editors of various newspapers and online platforms, who were taken through intensive training covering on different topics. There was one media consultant, Charles Yao Mawusi. Some of the topics…

Minister for Government Communications and spokesperson for the President, Felix Kwakye Ofosu has stated that government is putting in place the necessary steps to end attacks on media practitioners especially by the security agencies. The most recent attack was on January 5, 2026, where a reporter from the Class Media Group, in Accra, Samuel Addo, was brutally attacked by officers of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) while reporting on a fire incident at Kasoa in the Central Region. It was the first for the year after over 16 practitioners were attacked in the line of duty The minister, who…

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) governor, Dr Johnson Asiama, has announced a number of sweeping initiatives aimed at enhancing collaboration between the media and the institution, reaffirming commitment to deepen partnership. In a speech read on his during the opening of a two-day workshop for members of the Private Newspapers and Online Publishers Association of Ghana (PRINPAG), on Saturday January 24, at Ada, advisor to the governor, Dr Francis Yao Kumah, announced the institutionalization of an award, aimed at encouraging media practitioners, especially those from print and digital platforms, to accurately and creatively report on the economy. The “Economic and…

The root cause of Valentino Nii Noi Nortey, the 2024 parliamentary candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Korle Klotey constituency, marital problems has been uncovered. Reports suggest that, the wife of the young politician Gilda Adjoe Nortey, apparently asked for a divorce after she found out that there has been infidelity on the part of her husband. He is alleged to have impregnated his Personal Assistant (PA) and flew her to the United States (US) to deliver This is what allegedly incensed her leading to her demand for a divorce. “Nii Nortey has impregnated his PA. It…

In a show of appreciation and excitement, a middle aged woman, has distributed free food to construction workers, working on the Berekum-Drobo-Sampa road. The act of kindness was captured in a video shared on Tiktok by an account with the name Richmond. The unnamed woman based in Drobo, the district capital of the Jaman South Municipality shared the packed food to the workers for working to change the state of the road. Cheering the workers on, she distributed the food to them one after the other, urging them to continue till completion. She also proudly hailed President Mahama and his…

A family member of the wife of former NPP Klottey Korle parliamentary candidate, Valentino Nii Noi Nortey, has given further details about what happened between the couple. According to the member, the failed parliamentary candidate threatened to kill wife of many years and mother of their five children after she asked for a divorce. It is however unknown why she threatened she did not want the marriage again. Narrating the incident to 3News, the spokesperson of the wife’s family, David Gyapanin, indicated that after a disagreement in their home in Pennsylvania in the United States (US), Nii Noi stated that he would…