A former chief of staff under the esrtwhile Kufuor Administration Kojo Mpiani has asked President John Mahama to move into his official residence at the Flagstaff House in Accra. Kojo Mpiani believes there is no justification for the president to abandon his official residence. President Mahama currently resides in the Vice President’s house. Sources close ...

A Tamale Circuit Court in the Northern Region has convicted 40 ECOWAS nationals on their own plea, for illegal mining. The Presiding Judge, His Honour Senyo Amedehe ordered the confistication of their mining equipment and their immediate repatriation after paying the fines. In all, 45 of the convicts including Malians, Guineans and some from Burkina ...

The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) has asked the media to ignore calls to boycott a planned press conference to be addressed by the family of Black Stars Captain, Asamoah Gyan. The Managing Director of the Graphic Communications Group, Ken Ashigtbey, whose reporter, Daniel Kenu was assaulted by Baffuor Gyan, in a facebook post, called on reporters ...

Dr. Vladimir Antwi-Danso, senior research fellow at the Legon Centre for International Affairs and Diplomacy is cautioning Ghana to do an extensive preparatory work before heading into the arbitration proceedings with Cote D’Ivoire. He said he is highly convinced that there are big players such as France and the United States backing Cote D’Ivoire in ...

Google will face formal charges if it fails to come up with a suitable plan to give equal prominence to rival search engines, the EU has warned. There have so far been three attempts to solve the long-running dispute. Competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia told a European parliamentary committee that the next logical step would be ...

The Vatican has placed its former ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Jozef Wesolowski, under house arrest on charges of sexually abusing children. The former archbishop was defrocked in June after a Church tribunal found him guilty of abusing Dominican boys. He will now be tried by a Vatican criminal court, becoming its highest official to ...

The cedi over these past weeks has experienced some level of stability and in some cases, slight appreciation against some of the major foreign currencies. Last week, the cedi was stable against the dollar for most part of that week. On Tuesday, on the interbank foreign exchange market, the cedi was at GHC 3.19peswes while ...

About 50 MPs have stormed out of Nigeria’s lower house of parliament after a motion to discuss an alleged South African arms deal was blocked. Last week it was reported that government agents took $9.3m (£5.7m) in cash to South Africa to buy weapons. The deputy speaker of the House of Representative said that, as ...

New figures suggest 70% of those infected with Ebola in West Africa have died, higher than previously reported, says the World Health Organization. Ebola infections will treble to 20,000 by November if efforts to tackle the outbreak are not stepped up, the UN agency has warned. In the worst case scenario, cases in two nations ...

Nigeria’s military has retracted its statement that some of the schoolgirls abducted from Chibok town in April by Islamist militants had been freed. Army spokesman Brig Gen Chris Olukolade told the BBC there were girls in military custody, but not those from Chibok as originally thought. More than 200 girls were seized by Boko Haram ...

A private legal practitioner, Yaw Oppong has disagreed with calls for the immediate prosecution of some witnesses who have appeared before the Presidential World Cup Commission of inquiry. The president of IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe on the Citi FM’s news analysis programme, The Big Issue over the weekend suggested that the Commission’s ongoing investigations must be ...

Philips AVENT is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Born in 1984 with the introduction of the first anti-colic feeding bottle that set the standard for feeding bottles worldwide, Philips AVENT has been there for each and every precious first, supporting moms and babies from pregnancy to playground. Whether you are expecting your first baby or ...

President John Mahama has revealed that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout process expected to elevate Ghana from its economic woes will begin in January 2015. According to the President, the IMF and the World Bank would collaborate to ensure a sustainable growth path for Ghana’s economy. Ghana’s economy has faced numerous challenges recently, amidst rising inflation, ...

The Managing Director of Graphic Communications Group, Kenneth Ashigbey is urging journalists in Ghana to boycott a planned press conference to be addressed by the family of Black Stars Captain, Asamoah Gyan. The press briefing which is scheduled to take place on Wednesday is expected to address questions on the disappearance of Hiplife artiste, Theophilus Tagoe, ...

The Attorney General, Marietta Appiah Brew Oppong has downplayed reports of rising tension between Ghana and Ivory Coast after filing a lawsuit against Ivory Coast. Ghana has initiated arbitration proceedings under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), seeking a declaration that it has not encroached on that country’s territorial waters in ...

The Ghana Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) is demanding that the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) complies fully with its load shedding time table to allow for programmed production. Industries in the last two weeks have expressed concerns with the rise in production cost following the current power crisis. According to the Chamber it ...

A move to officially impeach the Commissioner of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice Lauretta Lamptey has been initiated by the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nsawam/ Adoagyiri constituency. The MP, Frank Annoh-Dompreh has petitioned President John Mahama  over Ms. Lamptey’s decision to spend about $180,000 on rent alone with a space of ...

Freedom is a good thing. Most of us would agree to that. And having a wide variety of options to choose from is ideal, right? Not always. Too many choices or options can actually cause inactivity or paralysis. You may have experienced this phenomenon when trying to decide what to order at a deli that ...

Newmont Ghana’s Ahafo Mine has emerged winner of this year’s Zone I Mine Safety and first Aid competition. The annual competition, organized under the auspices of the Ghana Chamber of Mines and the Inspectorate Division of the Minerals Commission, was hosted by Ghana Bauxite Company Ltd in Awaso under the theme: If it’s not safe, ...

While doing a news segment on the Alaska Cannabis Club, a medical marijuana organization in Alaska, reporter Charlo Greene made a grand exit from her position at CBS affiliate KTVA in Alaska (caution: the video is NSFW). Greene revealed that she actually owns the marijuana club she was reporting on, and then quit her TV gig with ...