The court hearing of the case against controversial Ghanaian boxer, Braimah Kamoko, also known as Bukom Banku, has been rescheduled to next Monday, September 12th. The boxer was arraigned for allegedly assaulting a hairdresser, and he appeared in court around 8:00am Tuesday, to meet the absence of the trial Judge, Marian Afful, who was not available to ...

The Minister for Fisheries and Aquaculture development, Sherry Ayittey, has promised government’s support for fishermen along the coast of Accra who suffered varying losses from a thunderstorm on Sunday. The storm destroyed and displaced many of the fishermen’s canoes and fishing nets whilst some fishermen are feared to have drowned. Some of the affected fishermen ...

Balancing the needs of petroleum consumers and petroleum service providers is very crucial to the National Petroleum Authority’s operations. Section 2(f) of the NPA Act 2005 (Act 691) mandates the Authority to monitor the standards of performance and quality of service provision rendered by the petroleum service providers (PSPs) to the Consumer. As a regulator ...

The running mate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Vice President Kwesi Amissah-Arthur, has begun a five-day campaign tour of the Northern and Upper East Regions in Mole. He is expected to meet with the Gonja Traditional Council, party executives and parliamentary candidates of the NDC whilst in the Northern Region. The Vice President will also inaugurate the NDC’s ...

Residents in the Brong Ahafo Region risk losing their major source of potable drinking water, River Tano due to the activities of Galamsey operators. The water body which has a total catchment area of about 1500 kilometers  square runs through Ghana and Cote d’ivoire and serves the Ghana Water Treatment Plant at Abesim near Sunyani. ...

The Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) warns it will not hesitate to prosecute exporters of petroleum products who engage in fuel smuggling from Ghana to neighbouring countries. According to the GRA, it will push for the license of such individuals or companies to be revoked by the National Petroleum Authority while it also blacklists them. Speaking ...

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Presidential nominee, Nana Akufo-Addo, has charged party leaders in the Ashanti Region to put every disagreement aside and unite ahead of the polls. Speaking at a meeting with party executives, Members of Parliament and Parliamentary nominees in the Ashanti Region, Nana Akufo-Addo said the NPP stood a better chance of winning ...

A Deputy Minister of Education, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has said government will complete at least 70 out of the 200 Community Day Senior High Schools it promised before the elections in December. “From what the consultants are telling us and what we have seen from our rounds and our monitoring and those that are ready ...

The leadership of the Western and Central offices of the National Peace Council, on Monday, urged the Government to be more responsive towards providing the needs of the Council to enable it to perform creditably. The chairmen of the two regional councils at a training programme, said the lack of vehicles and logistics mostly hindered ...

When Filipino farmer Grover Rosit first started growing cocoa trees more than a decade ago he had no idea it would allow him to retire from his day job at the age of 50. Back then, he was working full-time as a postman earning a moderate wage as a government employee of the Philippines Postal ...

Some currency analysts have downplayed a significant depreciation of the cedi, against major trading currencies anytime soon, due to an increase in corporate dollar demand. One of such is the General Manager of Treasury at HFC Bank, Joseph Nketsia. He tells Citi Business News, the coming on board of the cocoa syndicated loan by the ...

Recently, a number of shipping companies who together, control a significant share of the Ghanaian container shipping market, wrote to their customers introducing new ‘Terminal Handling Charges’ as of the 1st of August, 2016 at an average rate of US$140 per TEU (Twenty Foot Container). According to most of the shipping lines, the decision is ...

Ghana’s political parties are currently engaged in a childish game of “Hide & Seek” about the release of them manifestoes for Election 2016, which is just over 90 days away in the meantime, hey are crisscrossing the country making all kinds of promises to the voters. What is remarkable to note is that none of ...

AstraZeneca, a Multi-National Pharmaceutical (Pty) Ltd operating in the country has introduced ‘Forxiga (dapagliflozin) 10mg tablets’, a new drug to control type 2 diabetes onto the Ghanaian market. Diabetes is said to be one of the rising killer diseases globally, claiming one life every eight seconds and a limb lost at every 30 seconds, according ...

Three-time flagbearer of opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, has said the party is likely to win power to govern the country in the upcoming December 7 general election, if it secures 80 percent of the total votes in the Ashanti Region. “The polls going on in Ashanti Region are encouraging; but we all know ...

The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), has described as a monumental failure, President John Mahama’s implementation of the so-called progressive free Senior High School (SHS) education policy. The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) after the 2012 election, decided to implement what it called a progressive free SHS policy, a replica of the NPP’s much hyped ...

At least 23 inmates have died after a fire at an Ethiopian prison where anti-government protesters are reportedly being held, the government has said. A government statement says 21 died of suffocation after a stampede while two others were killed as they tried to escape. Some local media have disputed the account, citing unnamed witnesses ...

Shatta Wale emerged the Best African Act [Non-Nigerian/African] at this year’s edition of the Nigeria Entertainment Awards [NEA]. The dancehall king, whose real name is Charles Nii Armah Mensah, posted on his Facebook page to announce the award. In the post, he wrote, “We won the best African act NEA Awards. Thanks to Almighty God ...

US President Barack Obama has cancelled a meeting with controversial Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who had earlier called him a “son of a whore”. Mr Duterte was responding to the US president’s promise to raise the issue of drug-related extra-judicial killings in the Philippines at their meeting. US aides later confirmed Mr Obama would meet ...