Media practitioners will for the first time cast their votes in a special voting session to be held before the general elections on December 7. The Electoral Commission has set December 1 as the date for the Special Voting session. The arrangement, according to the Commission, is to enable all persons who will be playing an ...

Over hundred people set aside their daily responsibilities and thronged the Delhi Public School (DPS) International Ghana, at Tema to participate in a blood donation campaign. The exercise was supported by Sant Nirankari Charitable Foundation, a humanitarian organisation in Dubai, to save lives of patients at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital and other health facilities in ...

The Ghana Rugby Football Union (GRFU), conducted national trials at the Accra Sports Stadium on Saturday 10 September 2016, to assess the Rugby talent in Ghana and to try out different combinations. In total, 57 men and 13 women took part in the trials conducted by the technical team under direction of Herbert Mensah, President ...

President John Mahama has indicated that Ghana’s economic transformation will take off next year if he is a given a second term. The President’s comment comes on the heels of a recent lecture by the running mate to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia which questioned the President’s management of Ghana’s economy, ...

An Italian town heavily hit by last month’s earthquake is taking legal action against Charlie Hebdo, after it portrayed victims as pasta dishes. Amatrice, where most of the 295 victims lived, filed an aggravated defamation complaint against the satirical French weekly magazine. One of the images, labelled as lasagne, showed a stack of rubble with ...

The most pressing public policy concern in these times is unemployment, particularly among the youth. Albeit officially reported to be 10.9 percent by Ghana Statistical service in 2013 (see GLSS6, p.57), that figure does not account for those who are discouraged and have consequently stopped searching for work. Discouraged jobless persons are excluded from the ...

A former Director of the Institute of African Studies, Professor Akosua Adomako Ampofo, has started a campaign asking for the removal of the statue of Indian independence icon, Mahatma Ghandi, from the University of Ghana campus. Prof Adomako Ampofo is urging members of the University of Ghana Council to heed her petition arguing among other things ...

The flagbearer of the Convention Peoples’ Party (CPP), Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, says it is about time Ghanaians took control of their resources. He made the passionate call at Jasikan in the Buem Constituency of the Volta Region, during his Apam Foforↄ tour in the region. He reiterated how God has blessed Ghana with abundant resources ...