A Tamale District Court 2 presided over by His Worship Augustine Essah has slapped GHC500 fine on Madam Suraiya for defaming the character of Rabi Dawuda. Rabi Dawuda, the plaintiff dragged the defendant, Madam Suraiya to court for alleging that she was among the ladies involved in the Tamale sex scandal pornographic photos and videos. ...
The Western Regional Minister, Paul Evans Aidoo has advised Ghanaians to dismiss the notion that politicians are the only corrupt people in the country. Mr Aidoo said: “I can vouch that some of us, like all other professionals, are incorruptible and are working hard in our respective fields of endeavour.†The Minister was speaking at the ...
Nine-year-old Kieran Sorkin had the surgery at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital. About 100 children a year in the UK are born without one or both ears, a condition known as microtia. Kieran was born deaf with small lobes where his ears should be. He can already hear, thanks to previous surgery to implant a ...
Google and five other large companies are teaming up to build a cable under the Pacific Ocean that will deliver incredibly fast internet speeds. The cable, dubbed Faster, will connect the US with Japan and cost about $300m (£179m; 225m euros), the consortium said. The trans-Pacific fibre cable would deliver speeds of 60 terabytes per second ...
The World Health Organization has determined it is ethical to provide experimental treatments to patients infected with the Ebola virus. The panel of medical experts met in Geneva to discuss the merits of using untested drugs. Some 1,013 people have died from the virus in West Africa. The move came as Liberia announced it was ...
The first European infected by a strain of Ebola, Spanish priest Miguel Pajares, has died in hospital, Reuters reported, citing a spokeswoman for Madrid health authorities. Pajares, 75, was airlifted from Liberia on August 7 after contracting the disease. The priest worked for a non-governmental organization in the African country. Co-worker Juliana Bohi, a nun ...
President John Dramani Mahama will on Tuesday launch the Youth Enterprise Support (YES) initiative in commemoration of the 2014 International Youth Day. This initiative is to provide more innovative jobs and opportunities to contain unemployed Ghanaian youth across the country. Youth make up 33% of Ghana’s 25 million population, and recent data collated by the ...
The Sub-Metro director of health for Osu Klottey, Dr. Bright David Teye, has revealed on the Citi Breakfast Show (CBS) that, 50% of Ghanaians eat without washing their hands. Accra has been battling with the outbreak of the cholera disease with about 500 cases recorded in Accra so far. A short-term contingency plan, comprising of ...
A former Christian Education Director of the Ghana Baptist Convention, Reverend Dr. Edward Osei-Bonsu, has described as unnecessary, the ban on handshakes and hugs by some churches due to the Ebola outbreak. Some churches in the capital Accra  have reportedly directed their members to stop exchanging pleasantries through handshakes and hugs as part of measures aimed ...
A man has been fined for pretending to be a ghost and other rowdy behaviour in a cemetery, according to police. Anthony Stallard had been out drinking with friends when they went to Kingston Cemetery in Portsmouth where they started to play football. A Hampshire police spokesman said that witnesses complained to police of Stallard ...
The Ghana Health Service says over 37 suspected Ebola patients in the country have, so far, all tested negative for the disease. The Director of the Disease Surveillance Unit of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Badu Sarkodie, confirmed that all tests conducted on suspected cases of the deadly disease had been negative. He told Citi ...
Rappers Sarkodie and M.anifest have hit the studios again to work on a new joint project. The pair who previously worked together on The Chosen, which also featured D Black, and E.L are set to produce what is already being referred to on social media as one of the biggest Ghanaian hiphop collaborations in recent ...
Insurance penetration in Ghana has gone down marginally for the first time in about a decade amidst the challenges in the economy, B&FT has gathered from its recent survey of the industry. While the total premiums earned by the entire industry (life and general) increased by 23 percent from 2012-2013, rising from GH¢0.84billion to GH¢1.04billion, ...
The Attorney-General’s Department has initiated moves to fully recover GH¢51.2 million from businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome. “We received a certified copy of the Supreme Court judgement directing Woyome to refund the GH¢51.2 million to the state last Thursday and we are currently studying it,†the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mrs Marietta Brew Appiah-Opong, said ...
The Tamale sex scandal has taken a legal dimension in which a married woman accused of being one of the ladies seen in the pornographic photos and videos has dragged her accuser to court. The plaintiff is praying a Tamale District Court to prosecute the defendant of allegedly defaming her character in relation to the ...
The Electoral Commission (EC) has replaced all the registration machines that were last Thursday destroyed in Kumasi by six machomen armed with deadly weapons. No arrest has been effected so far. In a Hollywood-style action, the six stormed the Buorkrom Registration Centre in the Manhyia Sub-metro and destroyed all the registration materials and machines. They ...
Two employees of a borehole drilling company who allegedly participated in the lynching of a co-worker have been arrested by the Kwabenya District Police Command in Accra. The suspects, Emmanuel Sodja, 47, a driver mechanic, and Anthony Akpenyo, 31, a telecommunications engineer, as well as two others who are on the run, are said to ...
Microsoft has announced a low cost mobile phone that lacks a data connection, meaning it cannot offer any of the firm’s internet services. The Nokia 130 is priced at 19 euros ($25; £15). The launch comes a month after a leaked memo revealed that Microsoft planned to kill off several of its low-cost phone families ...
US actor and comedian Robin Williams has been found dead, aged 63, in an apparent suicide. Marin County Police in California said he was pronounced dead at his home shortly after officials responded to an emergency call around noon local time. Williams was famous for such films as Good Morning Vietnam and Dead Poets Society ...
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