The social network now allows you to stream video from your smartphone to your television using Apple TV or Chromecast, Facebook announced Thursday. The functionality is available now for iPhone users and coming “soon” to Android. The feature works for all of Facebook’s video, including its live videos. The company notes that if you do ...

At least 25 inmates have been killed in clashes between two rival factions in an overcrowded prison in northern Brazil, local media report. Seven of the dead were beheaded and six others burned to death, a police official reportedly said. The incident in Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima state, happened during visiting hours. Some ...

At least 4000 creditors of DKM Microfinance are expected to be paid their locked up deposits today, as the Official Liquidator commences payments. According to the Official Liquidator, each of the eight designated branches of GCB Bank is expected to attend up to 500 customers every day till all the payments are concluded. “The eight ...

President John Dramani Mahama will today begin a five day campaign tour of the Volta Region to canvass votes for the 2016 general elections. He will tour more than ten constituencies in the region and introduce the various National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidates to the residents. President Mahama, who is seeking reelection last Thursday ended ...

The Catholic Bishops Conference has commended the country’s Electoral Commission (EC) for the stringent measures it has put in place to ensure a free, fair and credible election. The Conference said the EC is doing what is right to ensure a peaceful election come December. This comes about a week after the EC disqualified some ...

Edami foundation a Non-governmental organization (NGO) working to improving quality education of children has launched a reading project in Anfoega in the North Dayi District of the Volta Region. As part of the project, reading clubs would be established in schools and teachers would be engaged to assist facilitate the activities. At the launch, pupils ...

The Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons in collaboration with the AO Alliance Foundation, an NGO has launched a project dubbed: “ Paediatric Fracture Solutions for Ghana,” to reduce disability from paediatric musculoskeletal fracture. The aim of the project is to reduce morbidity and mortality from paediatric fracture through prevention education and by improving the ...

The Speaker of Parliament Edward Doe Adjaho has expressed the need for consensus building among all the Arms of Government, and cautioned that one constitutional body should never be allowed to attack another. Mr Adjaho also reminded Members of Parliament to uphold the dignity of House. Equally, the nation must do more to identify its ...

The presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party(NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo has urged Ghanaians to give him the chance to lead the country and he would relieve them from the current economic hardship. He said he wants Ghanaians to try him, by voting massively for him in the upcoming general elections with the assurance that he ...

Disqualified presidential nominee of the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP),  Dr. Henry Herbert Lartey has filed an injunction suit seeking to stop all electoral processes ahead of the December elections. Dr. Henry Lartey was disqualified by the Commission, alongside 12 other aspirants, for not providing the personal records of his running mate among other things. ...

The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) has accused the state-owned media, the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation of favoring the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the allocation of airtime and space for political party campaigning ahead of this year’s election. The anti-corruption campaigners said its report on the abuse of incumbency and electoral corruption revealed the NDC ...

Since the announcement of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) concession deal by the government of Ghana, there have been various debates as to whether or not the deal is right. Today, I carefully sift through the rubble to break them down to you. As we move along, ask yourself, “what at all is wrong ...

The Greater Accra Regional Organiser of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Anthony Nupkepnu has conceded that his government erred in scrapping the allowances of nursing trainees in the country. “On the nursing trainee allowances, I would say, we might have erred in that direction because if the steps being taken were not ripe we ...

Zenith Bank says the current economic challenges facing Nigeria has not impacted on the Bank’s operations in Ghana. Zenith Bank Ghana is also confident of the company’s prospects in the country despite similar prevailing economic challenges facing the Ghanaian economy. The high interest rates, rising inflation, power crisis and the increased non-performing loans are but a few ...

A military operation to recapture the Iraqi city of Mosul from so-called Islamic State (IS) has begun, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says. The long-awaited assault from Kurdish Peshmerga, Iraqi government and allied forces is backed by the US-led coalition fighting IS in Iraq. Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, has been under IS control since June ...