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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 GH¢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.