The office of New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer hopeful, Alan Kyerementen has described the calls for an early congress by the 10 Regional Chairmen of the party as absurd. “This proposal is absolutely unnecessary and totally vexatious;’’ spokesperson for Alan Kyeremanten, Nana Ohene Ntow said. According to the former General Secretary of the party, there was ...

Despite the intensive campaigns, the Northern Region keeps recording the highest number of road accidents. According to the regional secretariat of the National Road Safety Commission, the region recorded 464 road accidents for the year 2012 out of which 99 victims died whilst 365 got injured. The year 2013 recorded a total of 767 road ...

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Soldiers from the Asa Military Base of 14 Brigade, Ohafia Barracks, Abia State, Sunday arrested 486 suspected insurgents including eight girls. The arrest was made same day bombs were uncovered and defused in a church in neighbouring Imo State. The suspected insurgents were said to be going to Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital in ...

17 bodies have so far been retrieved from the Volta Lake after a boat  capsized on Saturday. About 50 passengers were aboard the boat when it capsized of which 20 were children and 30 adults. The boat was said to be headed for Fetekope from Kete Krachi. According to NADMO official in the area, they are working frantically to retrieve ...

Sites like Google and Bing Maps will be able to use higher-quality satellite images, thanks to US government restrictions being lifted. Companies had not been allowed to make use of images where features smaller than 50cm were visible. But one imaging firm, Digital Globe, said it would be able to sell images that showed features ...

The Northern Regional Police command has dismissed reports that the recent killing on the Gambaga/ Nakpanduri road was orchestrated by suspected armed robbers as reported. Four persons including two policemen, a driver and banker of the East Mamprusi Community Bank in Gambaga were last week killed at Nasoani in a money carrier. Earlier media reports ...

Members of the Sissala East District Assembly in the Upper West Region on Monday approved President John Mahama’s nominee for the area as district chief executive. 23 people, representing 77% of the total number of 30 registered assembly members, voted in favor of 61-year-old Johnson Sabor to lead the assembly. Five voted against him and ...

The Chamber of Bulk Oil distribution Companies is warning of an imminent shortage of petroleum products in Ghana. According to the chamber, they will soon not be able to supply petroleum products because government has not paid an amount of over GHC 1.5billion due the bulk oil distribution companies (BDCs) from subsidies. They say, their ...

A testament to how great he is? Or is “just friends” actually code for “we’re still banging?” The best part about our exes is that without them we wouldn’t be the people we are today, which, of course, can also be the worst thing about them, too. Whether or not we like it, our exes, ...

The President, John Mahama is asking to Ghanaians not to lose hope in the Black Stars although Ghana lost the game against the USA in the ongoing World Cup tournament in Brazil. The President in a statement issued on Tuesday  stated that  “though we may have lost this first match, we are not defeated. We are, ...

Hundreds of Ghanaian football fans in Natal, Brazil are grumbling over the positioning of the Ghana camp at Mardunas Centro De Eventos, outskirts of Natal. Mardunas Centro De Eventos, a 185 apartment facility is located in the outskirts of Natal, limiting access and movement to town. The camp, a 45-minute drive from Natal ensures one ...

Central Bank Governor Henry Kofi Wampah has called Ghana “a victim of its own success” because its middle-income status makes it difficult to borrow on concessional terms. According to him, the country has to now utilise more commercial debt facilities to finance government budget deficits. Delivering the keynote address to policymakers, academics and researchers gathering ...

Foreign investment in China fell in May to its lowest level in 16 months, partly due to slowing growth. The government says China attracted $8.6bn (£5.1bn) in foreign direct investment (FDI) in May. That is a 6.7% fall from the same period last year and marks China’s weakest FDI report since January 2013. Economists say ...

The Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), headline sponsor of the senior national football team, Black Stars, has expressed confidence in the team’s ability to deliver as they kick-start their 2014 World Cup campaign against their USA counterparts in Natal on Monday. In a message to the team, soon on arrival at the Brazilian city of ...

Foreign Secretary William Hague will announce a plan on Tuesday which will lead to the re-opening of the British embassy in Iran’s capital, Tehran. Full diplomatic relations with Iran were suspended after attacks on the British embassy in Iran in 2011. The election of a new Iranian president and agreement on how to deal with ...

The office of John Alan Kyerematen has discounted media reports that he has bowed out of the presidential race of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). A statement signed by Nana Ohene Ntow denied the reports saying, “We unequivocally deny the aforementioned publication and further stress that, neither Mr. Alan Kyerematen nor any of his confidants ...

At least 10 people have been killed in a new attack by Islamist militants near Kenya’s coastal town of Mpeketoni, local police say. They say the gunmen raided at least one village overnight. Somalia’s al-Shabab group said it had carried out the attack, telling Reuters that its “operations in Kenya will continue”. At least 48 ...

The bodies of three teenagers , two boys and a girl were found along the Dansoman Beach in Accra yesterday. They have since been identified as Edmund Doade, 13; Edem Tuglo, 15, and the 16-year-old girl whose name was given only as Habiba. The boys had gone to the beach to play football on Sunday, ...

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) is pushing for the use of the Chinese Yuan as the alternative foreign trading currency to the United States dollar. It has consequently made the Yuan available to commercial banks as the alternative settlement currency to businesses who want to trade in the Chinese currency. The Head of Financial Stability ...