https://qmsnews.netlify.appGhana's news, explained. Every claim sourced.en-ghhttps://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/health-ministry-report-card-ndc-manifesto/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/health-ministry-report-card-ndc-manifesto/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000PoliticsThe NHIS levy was uncapped and free primary healthcare is in 135 districts. Agenda 111 has no working hospital, and the promised children's, trauma and northern hospitals have no site or contract yet.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/sarkodie-brag-wizkid-davido-diss-or-register/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/sarkodie-brag-wizkid-davido-diss-or-register/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0000EntertainmentThe 2024 single lists Nigerian stars who "came" after him and names Kendrick Lamar and J. Cole as his real competition. Every artist he named released a first album after his 2009 debut.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/gfic-kanda-studio-now-tv3/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/gfic-kanda-studio-now-tv3/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 05:00:00 +0000GhanaThe 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.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/harry-kane-wins-ballon-dor-2026-why/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/harry-kane-wins-ballon-dor-2026-why/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:55:00 +0000SportsThe Bayern Munich and England striker beat Kylian Mbappé (second) and Lamine Yamal (third) at the first ceremony held outside Paris. He is the first Englishman to win it since Michael Owen in 2001.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/dstv-new-packages-sam-george-claims-checked/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/dstv-new-packages-sam-george-claims-checked/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 22:00:00 +0000EconomyMultiChoice Ghana cut its six packages to four, with all its football at GH¢250 a month. Communication Minister Sam George called the line-up unique to Ghana. Kenya announced the same four packs on the same day, starting the same date.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/asante-gold-on-loan-1874-kumasi/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/asante-gold-on-loan-1874-kumasi/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000GhanaBritish 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.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/sammy-gyamfi-licence-clip-two-tapes-galamsey/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/sammy-gyamfi-licence-clip-two-tapes-galamsey/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000GhanaA 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.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/serwaa-amihere-fake-bag-claim-ignite/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/serwaa-amihere-fake-bag-claim-ignite/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000EntertainmentAt an IGNITE women's session, the broadcaster told young women to buy what they can afford, from Zara to Kantamanto at 4 a.m. By Monday morning, a post claiming her Chanel is fake had passed 186,000 views. Nobody has shown proof either way.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/agenda-111-kalyjay-private-investors-mahama/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/agenda-111-kalyjay-private-investors-mahama/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000PoliticsA viral post told young investors to finish an abandoned hospital and run it for profit. President Mahama made the same invitation in February 2025, and no signed deal has been made public since.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/ghana-movie-industry-to-be-continued/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/ghana-movie-industry-to-be-continued/Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:30:00 +0000GhanaThe 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.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/barcelona-real-madrid-el-clasico-mbappe/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/barcelona-real-madrid-el-clasico-mbappe/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 22:15:00 +0000SportsBarcelona had 62% of the ball and 18 shots. Madrid had Mbappé, and an 87th-minute counter-attack that settled El Clásico.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/man-united-bournemouth-0-3/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/man-united-bournemouth-0-3/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0000SportsUnited had 62.5% of the ball and 16 shots but no goals. Their captain was dropped and never came off the bench.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/rapperholic-kumasi-full-review/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/rapperholic-kumasi-full-review/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:25:00 +0000EntertainmentSarkodie's second Kumasi edition ended with him on his knees at dawn. Fans praised the crowd, the guest artists and the Daddy Lumba tribute, and complained about wristbands, traffic and timing.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/kwesi-arthur-still-singing-redemption-valley/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/kwesi-arthur-still-singing-redemption-valley/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 14:36:00 +0000EntertainmentA TikTok comment asking why Kwesi Arthur stopped singing drew 705 likes. Since leaving Ground Up Chale, he has released an independent album and toured the US.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/sam-george-ai-forum-fact-check/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/sam-george-ai-forum-fact-check/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000EconomyAt the JoyNews Digital Economic Forum, Communications Minister Sam George and IMANI's Bright Simons clashed over Ghana's AI plans. We checked the claims against the public record.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/halloween-chocolate-ghana-cocoa-price/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/halloween-chocolate-ghana-cocoa-price/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:00:00 +0000EconomyCocoa has fallen about 70% from its record, but US chocolate prices haven't. Ghana cut what it pays farmers straight away, and the new season price is only GH¢63 a bag higher.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/sarkodie-original-twi-breakdown/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/sarkodie-original-twi-breakdown/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 07:55:00 +0000EntertainmentThe song opened with a promise to rap in his own language all the way to the Grammys. Thirteen years on, Rapperholic has been to Kumasi and the Grammy is still the missing stamp.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/stonebwoy-wilderness-torcher-ii/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/stonebwoy-wilderness-torcher-ii/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 07:45:00 +0000EntertainmentThe Torcher II song opens with a psalm, borrows from the story of Job and puts Stonebwoy beside Muhammad Ali and Thomas Sankara. It was out in March 2026, long before July's "daddy" row.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/rapperholic-kumasi-empty-stadium-clips/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/rapperholic-kumasi-empty-stadium-clips/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0000EntertainmentThe most-shared clip of an empty Baba Yara was filmed at 7:49 PM, by its own phone clock. Here is the night hour by hour, from the videos people posted.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/ayra-starr-zayn-heaven-baby/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/ayra-starr-zayn-heaven-baby/Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:45:00 +0000EntertainmentAyra Starr calls the Starrgirl song a love song. In Spotify's making-of film, ZAYN said he cried when he first heard it, and the director said he kept the two singers apart on purpose.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/ndc-constituency-elections-ballot-box/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/ndc-constituency-elections-ballot-box/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 23:30:00 +0000PoliticsCounting was suspended in Accra, shots were reported in the Western North and delegates were arrested for photographing ballots on day one of the NDC's internal elections.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/gyakie-starr-drive-ghud-park/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/gyakie-starr-drive-ghud-park/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 21:00:00 +0000EntertainmentOn Starr FM, Gyakie talked about the crowd that booed her, her first headline show since 2022 and a new EP before Christmas.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/omar-sterling-manifest-makola-dreams-1979/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/omar-sterling-manifest-makola-dreams-1979/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 16:45:00 +0000EntertainmentThe 2021 song treats life as one long bargain. Its title points back to August 1979, when the AFRC gave traders one night's notice and Makola Market was gone by the next evening.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/showboy-mood-song-and-past/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/showboy-mood-song-and-past/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 13:35:00 +0000EntertainmentThe rapper released the song in the first days of January 2026. Four weeks later he was arrested over blackmail and defamation allegations he has not been convicted of.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/sarkodie-mickey-lux-vanity-verse/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/sarkodie-mickey-lux-vanity-verse/Sat, 24 Oct 2026 12:59:00 +0000EntertainmentOn the morning of his Baba Yara show, Sarkodie praised a song by the 27-year-old artist, then posted a video of himself rapping on it. The song had been out for four days.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/francis-duru-nollywood-actor-dies-at-57/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/francis-duru-nollywood-actor-dies-at-57/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:05:00 +0000EntertainmentThe Nollywood veteran died after a brief illness, his family announced on Friday. Many who grew up on VHS-era Nollywood in Nigeria and Ghana remember him as Ahanna.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/obuasi-shts-headmaster-timeline/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/obuasi-shts-headmaster-timeline/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000GhanaThe 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.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/adwoa-safo-dome-kwabenya-2028/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/adwoa-safo-dome-kwabenya-2028/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000PoliticsThe former MP and minister says she will seek the NPP ticket for 2028. Her own record in the seat is the first thing voters will look at.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/utv-group-chat-christianity-four-claims-fact-check/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/utv-group-chat-christianity-four-claims-fact-check/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0000GhanaA 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.https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/kafui-dey-crew-chose-him-who-wants-to-be-rich/https://qmsnews.netlify.app/news/kafui-dey-crew-chose-him-who-wants-to-be-rich/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 06:00:00 +0000EntertainmentIn a new interview with Abena Soreno, the broadcaster and MC says producers could not choose between two finalists, so they asked the crew. It came after TV3 had turned him down.