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Nvidia boss Jensen Huang confirms an affair. The spy claims around it remain unproven
Mr Huang told staff he “was unfaithful to my wife”, and Nvidia's board has opened an inquiry into whether he was the target of a foreign intelligence effort. The US memo reported by the press has not been published, nobody has been charged, and China denies the claims.
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Hammer of The Last Two says bread paid what music would not. His C6,000 a day is his own arithmetic
On Konnected Minds Podcast, the producer also said Ghana's arts have no regulator. A 2020 law created one, but QMS could not find a public record of it regulating music.
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Foreign Ministry cancels 10 Service Passports and interdicts two officers. Its own list dates 4 to 2023 and 6 to 2026
The ministry says the alleged scheme predates the current administration. By its own dates, four passports were issued under the NPP government and six under President Mahama's NDC government. Nobody has been charged.
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Shakahola pastor gets 200 years in Kenya. In Ghana, no law licenses a church or vets a pastor
Paul Mackenzie was sentenced for 191 murders, 190 of them children, after Kenyan police had reports about him from 2017. In Ghana, churches register like companies, and chaining in prayer camps, banned since 2012, was still documented in 2023.
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Ask for explanation: QMS checked every number in Bawumia's Tokyo answer on gold, the $1.7bn loss, MoMo and ECG
Former Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia is right that the gold programme lost over US$1.7bn in 2025 and that the new government sold about half the gold. He left out that the programme also lost money in his last year, that the pile was made bigger before it was sold, and that interoperability carries about 1% of mobile money value.
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“An attack on all of us”: Ghanaians killed abroad, and who has been arrested
Five days after Javits Frimpong, 15, was shot in the Bronx, no one has been arrested. QMS checked how the cases of other Ghanaians killed abroad stand. In the cases Ghana's government spoke loudest about, no arrests have been reported; in the cases where no government statement could be found, police abroad made arrests.
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Sam George’s “clean slate”: QMS checked every claim from his off-script remarks at the MFWA forum
The Communications Minister read a pledge not to shut down media houses, then said he would shut every political and religiously affiliated station "if you leave me". Three of his claims stand up. The law he cited does not exist, and the GJA story he told is not on the record.
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Bring the document: QMS checked all 42 claims from Monday's heated Good Morning Ghana panel
The NDC's Julius Kwame Anthony and the NPP's Kwesi Botchway Jnr clashed on Metro TV over the South Africa evacuation bill, service passports, cocaine cases and history. Each man got some numbers right, and each made claims the record does not support.
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Underground at 19, running Ashanti Goldfields at 36: how Sam Jonah rose through a mine he never owned
Sir Sam Jonah went down the Obuasi gold mine in 1969 and became the first Ghanaian to run Ashanti Goldfields in 1986. By his own word he was an employee, and he calls the reports of his wealth "grossly exaggerated".
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From his mother's shop to Special Ice and UTV: how Ernest Ofori Sarpong built the Special Group, and why nobody can put a number on it
On his 60th birthday he gave PRESEC Legon a 600-bed dormitory and arrived in a new Rolls-Royce reportedly worth close to US$1 million. By his own account his story did not start from nothing, and no credible wealth list has a figure for him.
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From a cassette table to Peace FM: how Osei Kwame Despite built a media group, and why nobody can put a number on it
Peace FM went on air on 25 May 1999. UTV followed in 2013. In June 2025 the Asantehene opened his car museum. But no credible wealth list has ever published a net worth for the founder of the Despite Group.
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The viral "scariest video" of 2 November is from April 2024. A Krobo custody confession, re-served as new, 919 days on
A clip of a handcuffed man alleging that a chop bar operator paid him to kill three women spread on X and on news sites as if it were new. It was first posted on 27 April 2024. Since then, QMS News could find no police statement, court report or verdict on the case.
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Princess Shyngle says a stranger tried to pay with a card in her name. Here is how card details leak, and what to do
The actress says an American Express card bearing her name was presented at a venue called Lagos District, and the owner reportedly stopped the payment. Who tried it, and how they got her details, is not known.
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No arrest yet in Javits Frimpong's killing; the viral "suspect captured" video shows an Orange County Sheriff's Office sign
A verified X account said overnight that police had captured a suspect. As of Monday morning, 2 November, the NYPD had announced no arrest and no newsroom had reported one. The video's first frame shows a sheriff's office sign, and there is no Orange County in New York City.
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"Compare me with Stonebwoy": Carter Efe's joke on his Ghana stream starts the third Shatta-Stonebwoy ranking row in ten days
On his own Twitch stream in Ghana, with Shatta Wale look-alike Made in Ghana beside him, the Nigerian streamer said Shatta was the biggest in Ghana and he should be compared with Stonebwoy instead. Stonebwoy fans called it disrespect.
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Dave's "The Boy Who Played the Harp": a rapper named David puts himself on trial
The title track that closes Dave's third album is one long verse with no hook. He asks what he would have done in 1940, in 1960, on the Titanic and at Karbala, then turns the question on himself: what is he doing in this generation?
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A month after soldiers cleared her Laboma bar, itz Tiffany released "Hustler"
The song's hook, "this tunnel ein end deɛ, no light, but we still dey push through", lands differently once you know what happened at Laboma Beach on 14 September.
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Chelsea 2‑0 Manchester United as Lisandro Martinez is sent off and United sit 17th
Morgan Rogers and a Cole Palmer penalty beat ten-man United at Stamford Bridge after a goalless first half. Michael Carrick says he will be in charge against Roma on Tuesday; the club has said nothing.
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Ronaldo scores a perfect hat-trick in 15 minutes and sits 15 goals from 1,000
Three goals between the 66th and 81st minute gave Al Nassr a 5‑3 win over Al Kholood in Riyadh on Thursday night. Cristiano Ronaldo now has 985 career goals.
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Bayern and Ajax will open Kenya's new stadium. Betting tax is paying for it
Kenya's 60,000-seat Raila Odinga International Stadium opens on 5 January 2027. Ghana has one stadium approved for international football.
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