The Police have arrested and taken into custody a soldier, Sergeant Isaac Abbey and two other persons Godfred Amegbor and Ofei Darko for their alleged involvement in a shooting incident on a disputed piece of land at Zammrama Line a suburb of Accra on June 4, 2022. Suspect Sergeant Isaac Abbey, according to the Police, […]

Bayern Munich striker Robert Lewandowski says he wants to leave the club because “something has died in me”. The 33-year-old Polish international has won eight Bundesliga titles with his current club, as well as the Champions League, but with one year left on his current contract he has been linked with a move away – […]

Mohamed Salah rejected Liverpool’s request to have a pre-match scan on an undisclosed injury before the forward played 90 minutes for his country on Sunday. The 29-year-old captained the side to a 1-0 victory over Guinea in Cairo as Egypt began their qualifying campaign for next year’s Africa Cup of Nations. “Salah was hit by […]

The audition for this year’s edition of your favourite pageant reality show, Ghana’s Most Beautiful (GMB), has reached the Ashanti region today, Monday, June 6, for the middle-sector auditions.  Auditions started on Saturday, June 4, at the Radach Hotel in Tamale, the capital town of the Northern Region. Today, auditions continued in Kumasi at the Miklin Hotel.  Young, […]

Western Region Public Relations Officer of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Benjamin Quarcoo has warned the company will continue to vigorously pursue persons who have been targeting and stealing their installations, till the last one is caught. “If they have decided to cause problems for us, then they should be ready. We will not […]

The Ghana Chamber of Mines has elected and inducted a new President, Mr. Joshua Mortoti, Executive Vice President and Head of West Africa for Gold Fields. Mr. Mortoti takes over from Mr. Eric Asubonteng, Managing Director of AngloGold Ashanti Obuasi who served two terms in the last four years. General Manager of Chirano Gold Mines, […]

Leading Global ICT Company, Huawei has been acknowledged for playing a key role in expanding mobile network connectivity to some unserved and underserved rural communities in Ghana to drive digitalisation. Huawei is the technical partner on the Rural Telephony Project which seeks to bring connectivity to over four million Ghanaians in underserved and unserved communities […]

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Monday, 6th June 2022, commissioned one hundred (100) mercury-free gold processing equipment, commonly referred to as Gold Katcha. He commissioned the equipment at a ceremony held at the Independence Square, in Accra. “As the name suggests, it is an equipment that extracts gold from the ore without the use […]

Evans Kyekyeku Mensah, a businessman and Netherlands returnee who was arrested on Friday, June 3 for attempting to use his daughter for rituals has been remanded into police custody by the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit of the Accra District Court. Presiding magistrate, Ama Adomako Kwakye remanded the accused after lead prosecutor Richard Amoah […]

Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), Mr Yaw Amoateng Afriyie has called for a balanced approach to energy transition that meets the imperatives of sustainability, energy affordability, energy security, and access. He also emphasized the importance of joint ventures in strengthening refining capacity, constructing petrochemical plants, storage tanks, gas pipelines, port infrastructure, and scaling […]

My grandmother laughed and almost choked the one time I told her I couldn’t wait to grow up and call the shots in my own life. She repeated this popular Akan saying: akola na wodei. My young mind did not understand what she found so hilarious about that moment. Today as I ponder over life’s […]

Education Minister Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum has prayed to God on behalf of the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, asking the Almighty to help the second gentleman of the land to achieve whatever desire he has. He said this while speaking at the sod cutting ceremony for the phase II of the State-of-the Art Technical […]

Spotify EQUAL has just announced Ghana’s very own singer and songwriter, Moliy as the EQUAL Africa ambassador for the month of June. The Ghanaian singer-songwriter joins other remarkable African women making waves in the music industry.  On 01 June 2022, Spotify announced Ghanaian singer and songwriter Moliy as the EQUAL Africa ambassador for June. Known for her ground-breaking […]

Kylian Mbappe, Vinicius Jr and Erling Haaland are the most valuable players in the world, according to research group CIES Football Observatory. Mbappe, 23, who rejected a move to Real Madrid to stay at Paris St-German, tops the list with an estimated transfer value of 205.6m euros (£175.7m). Real Madrid’s Brazilian winger Vinicius Jr, who scored the winner […]

The boards of directors of Tullow Oil PLC (“Tullow”) and Capricorn Energy PLC (“Capricorn”) are pleased to announce that they have reached agreement on the terms of a recommended all-share combination of Tullow and Capricorn (the “Combination”) to create the Combined Group. It is intended that the Combination will be implemented by means of a […]

On Wednesday, 25 May 2022, Spotify took the opportunity to celebrate a crop of African creators who are making their voices heard and, through that, showing the world the vast array of African talent.  Dubbed Sounds of Africa, the campaign highlighted six artists and six podcasters through a social media campaign in the week leading […]

The Social Welfare Department of the Wa says it has begun offering psycho-social support to two victims of a flogging incident in the municipality last week. The two, who sustained severe injuries from the lashes they received at the Wa-Naa’s palace, have been opening up about their ordeal. Social welfare officers have been able to […]

Ghana must pause and rethink wasteful tax exemptions in the face of multiplicity of excessive and burdensome indirect taxes, National Coordinating Committee (NCC) of Public Sector Unions in Ghana, Perpetual Ofori-Ampofo Chairperson, has said. She explained that Ghana has been granting tax exemptions and getting virtually nothing in return. Meanwhile, she said, higher and more […]

An activist of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Dela Coffie has turned himself in at the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) on Monday June 6 after the Special Prosecutor on Friday June 3 caused the issuance of a warrant of his arrest. This was announced by the OSP in a statement on Monday. Dela […]

Black Stars defender Jonathan Mensah has rejoined his Black Stars teammates after being discharged from hospital. The Colombus Crew captain suffered a head injury in Ghana’s 1-1 draw with the Central African Republic on Sunday. Mensah suffered a headbutt from an opponent resulting in a concussion. He was given emergency treatment on the pitch before […]