Eleven people have been killed in an accident involving a minibus and a trailer on the Kintampo – Kumasi Road. According the District Police Commander of Kintampo, ASP Ahmed Abonor Atalata, the accident occcured when the driver of the minibus attempted overtaking a trailer. ASP Atalata told Citi News that  “the minibus was overtaking a ...

Ghanaians must brace themselves for an intensified load shedding exercise following Nigeria’s decision to cease the supply of gas to Ghana. A Daily Graphic report stated that the situation was caused by labour unrests in Nigeria. This means a shutdown of the Asogli Power plant which provides 180 megawatts of energy to the national electricity ...

A group called Progressive Nationalist Forum, is advising Lauretta Vivian Lamptey,  the Commissioner for the Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), to resign from her position to redeem her image. According to the group, she has been “grossly incompetent when it comes to issues of corruption and human rights.” Ms Lamptey has been ...

The Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Paul Afoko, has appealed to the rank and file of the party to help him unite all feuding factions within the party. Mr. Afoko and his General Secretary,  Kwabena Agyepong have both been under fire for taking unilateral decisions which according to some members, were not in the best interest ...

The archbishop of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil has had his crucifix and ring stolen in an armed robbery. Cardinal Dom Orani Tempesta was on his way to an engagement in the city when his car was ambushed by three men. One of the robbers, who pointed a gun at the cardinal, realised who he ...

Political parties in the country are divided over calls by the Institute of Economic Affairs(IEA) for the Electoral Commission’s strong room system to be abolished. The IEA says the strong room must be eliminated to ensure that justice is served in any given election.  The EC’s strong room has for many years served as a ...

Apple has expanded its use of “two-step verification” checks to protect data stored online by its customers. It follows suggestions third-party software had been used to steal intimate photos of celebrities – posted online last month – from iCloud. The action should stop the tool from being able to infiltrate Apple’s internet storage service if ...

The Ebola outbreak could have a catastrophic impact on the economies of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the World Bank says. The organisation says the economic impact of the virus could “grow eight-fold” in the “already fragile states”. However, it says the cost can be limited if the epidemic – and the accompanying fear – ...

EBay has been compromised so that people who clicked on some of its links were automatically diverted to a site designed to steal their credentials. The spoof site had been set up to look like the online marketplace’s welcome page. The US firm was alerted to the hack on Wednesday night but removed the listings ...

Gunshots and an explosion have been heard at a teacher training college in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. Students were seen fleeing from the city’s Federal College of Education. One student told the BBC by phone that he had seen 17 dead bodies at the scene. It is not clear who was responsible, although ...

Bigger is better and Apple  has finally realized that and given iPhone users a product that may be low on novelty but high on improvements, reviewers wrote. Most reviewers say that the iPhone 6 is the best smartphone available or “ever made”, while the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus has been described as a “phablet” that will ...

The Executive Director for the Center for Democratic Development (CDD), Professor Emmanuel Gyimah-Boadi has stated that the Commissioner for the Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) is incompetent. “She does not qualify to occupy the position not by performance of the Commission under her tenure and certainly, not in comparison to her predecessors ...

A former Commissioner of the Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Emile Short, has expressed worry over the “sinking image” of the Commission under the leadership of Ms Lauretta Lamptey . Although CHRAJ has a mandate to protect and promote administrative justice to ensure that the government and its officers are accountable and transparent, ...

The doctor performing a biopsy on Joan Rivers’ vocal cords stopped to take a selfie in the procedure room while the comedian was under anesthesia and just moments before she went into cardiac arrest, a shocking new report claims.  The physician hasn’t been publicly identified, but is believed to be Rivers’ personal ear-nose-throat doctor.  A ...

A group of irate passengers prevented a top Pakistani politician from boarding a flight, after they were kept on board for two hours until he arrived. It is not clear why former Interior Minister Rehman Malik and another politician were so late to turn up. But the passengers were so incensed a scheduled flight was ...

Dozens of Zimbabweans have vented their outrage on social media after president Robert Mugabe’s wife was awarded a PhD only two months after she enrolled at the University of Zimbabwe, where her husband is chancellor. Local media reported that Grace Mugabe was awarded her doctorate in sociology at the University of Zimbabwe (UZ). It is understood that for her thesis, Mrs Mugabe conducted ...

Katy Perry is leading the nominations for this year’s MTV Europe Music Awards (EMAs). The singer is up for seven including Best Female, Best Pop Act, Best Video and Best Live act. She will be going head to head in most categories with Ariana Grande, who has six nominations for the awards being held in ...

Hundreds of people in the Northern Region’s Central Gonja District  have been displaced from their homes following heavy rains on Tuesday. The heavy rains, which started at 11am and lasted for about five hours, were accompanied by strong winds which reportedly ripped the roofs off many structures in some major suburbs of the town, including ...

An angry mob outside the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev threw MP Vitaly Zhuravsky into a rubbish bin on Tuesday. According to the Russian news agency ITAR-Tass, Mr Zhuravskyi was an adviser to the country’s pro-Russian former president Viktor Yanukovych who was ousted earlier this year after months of anti-government protests. Activists have accused him of authorising a ...

Over 2,000 residents of Osu Klottey in Accra are threatening to resist all attempts by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) to evict them from their homes. A school in the area is also to be demolished during the exercise. The residents, most of whom are fishermen and artisans explained that they have no alternative place ...