A stunning Robin van Persie hat-trick was enough to put Manchester United into the quarter-finals of the Champions League and relieve the pressure on their beleaguered manager David Moyes. Van Persie, who left the pitch on a stretcher late on, converted a first-half penalty and scored on the brink of half-time before he struck the ...

The FBI is aiding the Malaysian government’s search for a Malaysia Airlines jet missing for more than a week, the White House has confirmed. The US investigators are believed to be helping the Malaysians examine a home flight simulator belonging to one of the pilots of flight MH370 for clues. The pilot is said to ...

South Africa’s top corruption fighter has said President Jacob Zuma has “benefited unduly” from using state money to improve his rural residence. The changes to Mr Zuma’s private home, including a pool and cattle enclosure, cost taxpayers about $23m (£13.8m). In a more than 400-page report, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela accused Mr Zuma of unethical ...

Government says the description of the President and his Ministers as ‘liars’ is an unfortunate attack and a wrong prognosis. The former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei accused the Mahama government of constantly lying to Ghanaians about the true state of the nation. In response, a ...

An Accra Circuit Court has handed out a five-year jail term to Richard Agyekum, a taxi driver for stealing cables worth GHS3000 belonging to telecom operator, Vodafone Ghana. Richard and his accomplice were spotted at ABC Junction in Achimota, a suburb of Accra, pulling out a 55m 30 pair Ariel cable on October 22, 2013. ...

An aide to Nana Akufo Addo, Mustapha Hamid says Nana Addo’s announcement about his political future on Thursday, March 20 will still be a surprise in spite of the speculations. According to Mr Hamid majority of the people are only guessing or speculating, ”but until that announcement is made definitely and explicitly, we still don’t ...

With just over 80 days before the big kick-off in Brazil, the technical experts of Africa’s big 5 who will lead the continent’s campaign for glory are looking back at their respective team’s last international matches and plotting for the success of Brazil2014. Algeria, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria have the backing of an ...

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has released a timetable for a new load shedding exercise to be implemented across the country from Wednesday, 19th March, 2014. The new load shedding programme has become necessary due to the shortfall of gas supply from Nigeria. The Public Relations Officer ( PRO) of ECG, Mr William Boateng, told ...

The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has released a temporary timetable for the emergency electricity management ( load shedding) programme that has been put in place. The ECG’s Public Relations Officer ( PRO), Mr William Boateng,said Tuesday that the timetable – titled ‘National Load shedding Guide’.- has been drafted to guide load shedding for two ...

  Former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Professor Stephen Adei, has defended the comments he made about President John Dramani Mahama and his Ministers. Professor Adei reportedly described the President and members of his government as liars at a marriage seminar in Tema. Reiterating his point on the Citi ...

Pro-Russian activists have taken control of the headquarters of Ukraine’s navy in the Crimean city of Sevastopol. Several Ukrainian servicemen have left, the Russia flag is flying and there are reports that Ukrainian navy chief Serhiy Hayduk has been detained. It comes a day after Crimean leaders signed a treaty with Moscow absorbing the peninsula ...

An Accra Circuit Court has handed out a five-year jail term to Richard Agyekum, a taxi driver for stealing cables worth GHS3000 belonging to telecom operator, Vodafone Ghana. Richard and his accomplice were spotted at ABC Junction in Achimota, a suburb of Accra, pulling out a 55m 30 pair Ariel cable on October 22, 2013. ...

President John Mahama has appealed for support from the Swedish government for Ghana’s renewable energy plans. Ghana is presently facing serious challenges in the energy sector, resulting in erratic power supply. Speaking at a meeting with visiting Crown Princess of Sweden, Lady Victoria, President Mahama said Ghana is considering options in renewable energy. He said ...

Generally, honesty is a good policy, but sometimes life calls for you to fake it. Not to the point of self-delusion or denial, just long enough to get through or get by. Occasional faking doesn’t make you a liar, an impostor, or a fraud, it makes you smart. Strutting in to the interview for your ...

The Minister of Information and Media Relations, Mahama Ayariga has assured Ghanaians that government is aware of the challenges they face and is working to solving them. According to him, critics should appreciate that even though the country is currently facing a number of problems, government has ensured that some sectors the economy work efficiently. Mr. ...

What to do when one has ordered fabulous shoes off of the Internet and worn them once already, making an exchange unlikely, and then discovered that they are too small? I’ll tell you! Recently, I picked up a fantastically useful tidbit from a stylist:  apparently there is a technique that you can use to stretch ...

One of the best things that marriage allows a person to do is become completely comfortable with another person. For women, it just seems too easy to feel so comfortable with their husbands that they think they can say whatever they want to their man. What many women don’t understand is the things they say, ...

The countdown to the most anticipated women’s career forum, Just Women, is still on with Ruka Sanusi. Ruka would speak on the topic 10 Secrets of a successful entrepreneurial career at the #JustWomen Forum on Thursday 27th March at the National Theatre. Ruka Sanusi has had a diverse international career to date, starting out two ...

The Vice-Chancellor of the University for Mines and Technology (UMAT), Tarkwa, Prof. Jerry Samuel Kuma has appealed to Sandvik Mining Ghana to avail to the university, its cutting technology and equipment to help train the country’s licensed small scale miners. He said the havoc wreaked on the environment through the crude mining methods of the ...

A High Court in Accra will on Wednesday hear a case in which an aspiring National Youth Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Richard Nyamah, is suing the Finance Ministry for its indebtedness to the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund). Mr. Nyamah says since 2013, the Ministry has failed to pay monies into the ...