🇬🇭 A Ghanaian cultural practice has sparked reactions after a widow, who was married to her late husband for 51 years, reportedly remained strong following traditional funeral rites tied to fidelity.
According to local beliefs, a widow who had been unfaithful during the marriage would not survive the ritual period.
However, three days after the rites and after viewing her husband’s body she showed no signs of weakness. Powder was poured to symbolize her victory.
BREAKING 🚨: Mistaken identity scandal leaves man jobless, demands compensation
Body: Asare Francis says he was wrongly identified in a viral post as a suspect wanted by the Office of the Special Prosecutor.
Although he later reported himself and was cleared, he claims the error caused him to lose his job and suffer emotional distress.
He is now appealing for compensation over the incident. Authorities are yet to respond to his claims.
🇬🇭 BREAKING :
The Bank of Ghana has warned that rejecting pesewa coins is illegal under the Currency Act, 1964 (Act 242) and cautioned that such practices can fuel inflation by encouraging price rounding.
The central bank emphasized that lower-denomination coins, including one, five, and twenty pesewas, remain legal tender and must be accepted in all transactions to maintain efficient currency circulation and safeguard price stability.
I’ve met so many “big people” ever since I started this social media journey. There are some people that will sell you big dreams and let you work for them saaaaa. There are those that will tell you oh “let’s grow together” but when opportunities come they give to others. To young creators coming up whenever you pray, ask God for the spirit of discernment so you can separate the fanfoolers from those that want to see you grow genuinely.
We’ve reduced dance to entertainment, when in truth it is knowledge, identity, discipline, and history. Long before we wrote things down, we embodied them through movement, rhythm, and performance.
So when we ridicule dance, we are not just dismissing art. We are dismissing intelligence, culture, and legacy.
And this goes beyond dance.
It is how we treat art in general.
We consume it daily, but we refuse to respect it.
We celebrate it when it travels abroad, but undermine it at home.
“Do we really have leaders in this country? Are there really Members of Parliament in this country??”
— A street hawker questions, following a devastating accident at Lapaz Nyamekye, blaming it on faulty and non-functioning traffic lights, which reportedly forced another hawker to put aside her goods and leave her children to direct traffic.
She also revealed that hawkers once contributed money to fix the lights, but since they have not contributed again, the lights have been left faulty.