Member of Parliament (MP) for Effutu, Alex Afenyo-Markin is also asking government and the Ministry of Finance to immediately address the financial crisis that has hit the Judicial Service to prevent a total shutdown of the third arm of the state. The Ghana Bar Association in a statement on Wednesday charged government to release its ...

The 2014 edition of Citi FM’s Write Away Contest will be launched on Thursday, June 19, at the Alsyd Academy at Dzorwulu in Accra. The competition is held annually to hone the writing skills of participants. The topic for this year’s essay will be unveiled at the launch after which contestants will be allowed to ...

Trying on makeup just received a beautiful 21st-century update. On Wednesday, L’Oreal Paris released an innovative app called Makeup Genius, a free “magic mirror” for iPhone and iPad that lets you see how you would appear in different eye shadows, blushes, and other beautifiers without actually applying the products. The app takes a sophisticated scan of ...

The 10 per cent voluntary pay cut by the President and his appointees has yielded more than GH¢300,000. The amount is expected to be used to build Community-based Health and Planning Systems (CHPS) compounds in the country. Background In his budget statement to Parliament in November last year, the Finance Minister, Mr Seth Terkper, announced ...

The number of people killed by the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa has risen to 337, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. Fourteen deaths and 47 new cases were reported across the region over the last week, it added. Guinea is worst-affected with 264 Ebola-related deaths. In Sierra Leone, there have been 49 ...

The Chief Engineer of the Ghana Railway Company Limited (GRCL), Mr William Ackun, has called for the immediate suspension of train services on the Accra-Tema railway line until maintenance work is carried out. The call, he said, had become necessary because the company could not guarantee the safety of trains and passengers who used the ...

Businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome yesterday stated that he lost GH¢54 million as a result of renegotiating a default judgement awarded him by the Commercial Court against the state. According to him, the court originally awarded him GH¢105 million, being four per cent of a 1.1 billion Euro facility he raised from Banc Austria, but the ...