World Peace Volunteers have urged Ghanaians to use the International Peace Day to reflect on how best to dissolve the sequence of violent behaviour created by conflicts and conscientiously commit to world peace. In 2001, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly by unanimous vote, adopted a resolution, which established 21st September as an annual day ...

Stakeholders working to improve conditions in the informal sector have advised the government and city authorities to institute pragmatic steps to standardize informal trading and protect the traders from occupational and health hazards. Traders, mostly women, largely contribute to government’s revenue towards national development in the form of market tolls and licenses but sadly, they ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has welcomed the decision by the United Nations General Assembly to establish the UN Mission for Ebola Emergence Response (UNMEER). A statement issued by Tarik Jasarevic, WHO Spokesperson said nearly six months after the first case of Ebola in West Africa was reported, UN General Assembly and the Security Council ...

The Environmental Film Festival of Accra (EFFA), has launched the 2014 edition of films on the environment slated from September 19 to September 26. The festival is being organised in collaboration with Creative Storm, an NGO. Dr Kwesi Owusu, festival Co-Director said, the event which is 10 years old has chalked many successes by using ...

The University of Cape Coast (UCC) will soon review its students handbook to make it explicitly prohibitive for students to pursue any issue of political interest in court. Vice Chancellor Professor Domwini Dabire Kuupole , who made this known observed that student politics in the university had reached an alarming situation whereby some students use ...

West Ham United netted twice inside the opening seven minutes en route to a 3-1 victory over Liverpool at Upton Park. The hosts burst out of the blocks and saw their early endeavour rewarded as Winston Reid bundled home inside 90 seconds and Diafra Sakho doubled their advantage soon after. Raheem Sterling was able to ...

Some of the companies that “bragged” about their sporting prowess, “walked the talk” at this year’s Citi Business Olympics at the Burma Camp leisure centre in Accra. Citi Investment company emerged overall winners after taking home four trophies. Some new entrants like Ernst and Young, Bank of Africa, Ghana Post, FHI360 among others were not ...

A flaw that has exposed eBay customers to malicious websites has been affecting the site since at least February, according to the BBC. Earlier this week it was revealed how clicking on some listings automatically redirected users to the harmful sites. EBay removed several posts, but said it was an isolated incident. But the BBC ...

Cristiano Ronaldo struck a hat-trick as Real Madrid produced a stunning 8-2 demolition of Deportivo La Coruna in La Liga. Carlo Ancelotti’s side were at their devastating attacking best at the Riazor, with a Gareth Bale double, James Rodriguez’s first Liga goal and a late brace from Javier Hernandez supplementing Ronaldo’s treble. Defeats to Real Sociedad and ...

Danny Welbeck opened his Arsenal account as three goals in four minutes helped the Gunners beat Aston Villa. Arsenal opened the scoring when Welbeck put Mesut Ozil through on goal and the German slotted home calmly. Ozil repaid the favour by crossing for Welbeck to sidefoot in from close-range as the England striker scored for ...

Google has announced that its next mobile operating system, Android L, will encrypt users’ data by default. The measure will make it more difficult for private information to be hacked or handed to law enforcement agencies. On Thursday, Apple said that devices running its new iOS8 software would be encrypted by default, with even the ...

Eight men were brutally caned in front of about 1,000 people inside a mosque compound in Indonesia after breaking strict Sharia laws on gambling. A state prosecutor, in the conservative Aceh Province, on the north-western tip of Sumatra, read out the men’s punishment before a masked man wearing brown robes stepped forward. Using a thin ...

A Muslim academic has opened a gay-friendly mosque in South Africa, despite receiving death threats and fierce criticism from parts of the local Muslim community. Women will also be allowed to lead prayers at Taj Hargey’s “Open Mosque” in Cape Town. “We are opening the mosque for open-minded people, not closed-minded people,” Mr Hargey told ...

French jets struck a suspected Islamic State target inIraq for the first time on Friday, expanding a U.S.-led military campaign against militants who have seized a third of the country and also control large parts of neighboring Syria. President Francois Hollande said Rafale jets hit “a logistics depot of the terrorists” near the city of Mosul, which ...

An emotional husband waited outside an Apple Store for a whopping 44 hours in an attempt to win back his wife by buying her the iPhone 6. Darius Wlodarski began queueing on Wednesday in Cabot Circus, Bristol – almost two whole days before the product was set to be released. It was a day before anybody ...

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal would like to sign Cristiano Ronaldo but does not expect Real Madrid to sell. The 29-year-old has been linked with a return to Old Trafford, having left in 2009 for a then-world record £80m fee. Asked about re-signing the Portugal international forward, Van Gaal said: “It is possible. “Players ...

Uefa president Michel Platini insists he will not return a £16,000 watch given to him by the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF). Fifa has asked officials to return the watches handed out at the World Cup as football’s governing body claims the gifts break its code of ethics. But Platini, 59, said: “I’m a well-educated person. I ...

A total of 105 motorists who flouted road traffic regulations last weekend were arrested as part of police operations to clamp down road traffic accidents that had been claiming lives on major highways in the country. The motorists were arrested on the Accra-Cape Coast road, Takoradi Highway and the Yamoransa-Kumasi roads and are being processed ...

Yaya Toure says he wants to win the Champions League with Manchester City to repay the club’s fans for their support. The midfielder, 31, was criticised for his performance in Wednesday’s 1-0 defeat at Bayern Munich – their opening match of this campaign. Speaking to the BBC’s Football Focus, Toure said: “I know the fans love me; ...

Trends in total assets and branch expansion across the banking industry in the country have demonstrated that the industry continues to experience a steady growth in both nominal and real terms. Total assets increased by 39.7 per cent to GH¢44.2 billion in July, 2014, out of which advances constituted 45.8 per cent. Credit to the ...