The President of the Republic of Guinea, Professor Alpha Condé, will arrive in Accra on Wednesday for a three-day State visit to Ghana. President Condé will be the Special Guest at Thursday’s 57th Independence Anniversary parade at the Independence Square. The Guinean leader has been invited by President John Mahama to Ghana’s Independence Anniversary in fulfillment of a ...

The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has begun issuing  instant identity cards based on biometric data. The Chief Executive of the NHIA, Sylvester Mensah announced this at the 2014 NHIA stakeholders’ forum in Accra on Tuesday. The forum examined measures and strategies to improve transparency and accountability in the running of the scheme. The Authority ...

This information came few days after photos of the football star and the Nollywood actress were published online as they boarded a private jet in South Africa. According to news report, top Nigerian footballer Mikel Obi has made his Nollywood debut in a movie titled ‘’The Journey’’ alongside Nollywood diva Genevieve Nnaji . Nigerianfilms.com learnt ...

Management of Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) would this year operate an Executive Wing of the hospital to offer quick and efficient medical services to busy patients who can afford. It would also put in place attractive investments such as a car park, modern restaurant, hotel and other commercial centres to serve the Korle Bu ...

The civil war in South Sudan has left people so hungry and desperate for relief that they are even fleeing across the border into Darfur, a long-troubled region of famine and suffering in neighbouring Sudan, according to the United Nations. About 900,000 South Sudanese are homeless since the war erupted in December, and about 195,000 ...

Vatican cardinal, Peter Turkson, has criticized Uganda’s anti-gay law and called for the repeal of its severe penalties. Cardinal Peter Turkson, who is president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, said Tuesday that “homosexuals are not criminals” and shouldn’t be sentenced for up to life in prison. Speaking to reporters in Bratislava where ...

Passive smoking causes lasting damage to children’s arteries, prematurely ageing their blood vessels by more than three years, say researchers. The damage – thickening of blood vessel walls – increases the risk of heart attacks and strokes in later life, they say in the European Heart Journal. In their study of more than 2,000 children ...

A group of concerned Ghanaians have described National Security Coordinator, Lt. Col.  Larry Gbevlo-Lartey as a threat to security in the country and are therefore, calling on the President to dismiss him. The group which is not an official group of the University of Ghana, Legon is made up of members of the University community, ...

Jumping in the sack too quickly might send the wrong message. New relationships are exciting, and there’s big temptation to jump in the sack right off the bat. But both conventional wisdom and experience show that having sex too soon increases the likelihood of ruining a potential relationship. Yet if you’ve fallen into the sticky ...

Khloe Kardashian is determined to discover the truth about who dared to steal jewels from her home, and she will stop at nothing to make sure the perpetrator is caught. Unfortunately for Khloe, it just might be someone she knows! After Khloe and her soon-to-be ex-husband Lamar Odom were robbed of $250,000 worth of jewels from ...

Trust issues start with trusting yourself before you can trust someone else. One day, someone screwed up, gave someone else reason to distrust, and from that seed blossomed “trust issues.” Around the globe, in bedrooms, boardrooms and even on playgrounds, we’ve become a society built on trust issues. To trust someone, without having trust issues, ...

The Citi Breakfast Show revisits the issue of falling standards of debating on the floor of Parliament. Some debates there appear abysmal. The show also interviewed Mr. Paul Adomako Ampofo who is working on the demolition of the Legon toll booth.The show later continued with the Heritage series. It carried out a comprehensive talk on ...

Shareholders of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated have voted to retain the management of the bank headed by Chief Executive Officer Thierry Tanoh. The stakeholders took the decision following the Extraordinary General Meeting of the bank held in Lome, Togo.Before the meeting, South Africa’s Public Investment Corporation, the bank’s biggest shareholder, had called for the immediate resignation ...

Staff of the University of Ghana, the nation’s premier university, will not be paid soon because of delays in the release of government’s subvention to the institution. In the last three months, DAILY GUIDE can confirm, there has been delayed payment of the salaries of staff of the uni­versity largely due to cen­tral government’s failure ...

After announcing its iOS in the Car initiative at last year’s WWDC, Apple has officially launched the program today with partners Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo — which will premiere it to their drivers this week. The program, called CarPlay, is described as a “smarter, safer and more fun way to use iPhone in the car.” Users can control CarPlay from their car’s native interface ...

The Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Akwasi Oppong-Fosu says the development of the National Decentralisation Policy Framework and National Decentralisation Action Plan is aimed at systematic rolling out of the implementation of tangible activities to promote participatory decision-making and effective service delivery at the local level. He emphasised that the establishment of the Social ...

President John Dramani Mahama says the onus lies on Ghanaians to work harder to strengthen the country’s Judicial systems. According to him, although Ghana has a strong Judicial tradition, there is still the need to tap the experiences of other countries to strengthen those institutions “Strengthening of all institutions including the Judicial system is paramount ...

The inaugural Kwadwo Baah-Wiredu Memorial Lectures will take place later on Wednesday at the British Council. The organizers of the lecture, Financial Accountability and Transparency – Africa (FAT-AFRICA) and the Ghana Institute for Public Policy Options (GIPPO), say the lectures have been established to recognize and immortalize the life and work of the late finance ...

The Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations is developing a Labour Market Information System that will link employers and job seekers to dialogue on a platform to reduce labour agitations and unrest. The system would not only inform policy and planning, but also create an accurate database of the employed among all categories of the ...

President John Dramani Mahama is promising government’s commitment in supporting the judiciary in dispensing justice without fear or favor. This he said is necessary because of the peculiar role the judiciary plays as arbiters. The President said this when he welcomed visiting Brazilian Chief Justice, Joaquim Barbosa who is in the country to share experiences ...