The Upper East Regional Branch of the Ghana Federation of Disability Youth, is appealing to the Electoral Commission to provide fair grounds for persons with disability to enable them exercise their franchise on the day of election. According to them, the EC in previous elections has made voting cumbersome for them which made it difficult ...

Dear Nyamewa: Before anything else, I need to admit that I find your opinion piece enthralling. Oh yes! It was enthralling, not because you made any particularly new arguments since this issue became a matter of public debate about a fortnight ago. But rather, since your article was predicated on the obvious grammatical faux-pas in ...

The Poultry Farmers Association of Ghana are lamenting over the stiff competition they face with the importers of frozen chicken. The association says about 95% of their market has been taken over by the imported chicken products. It would be recalled that local poultry farmers earlier appealed to government to ban the imports of frozen ...

At least 30 people have died in a suicide attack targeting Shia in Iraq’s capital Baghdad, officials say. More than 60 were injured in the attack, on a tent in a crowded market in a northern district of the city. Many Shia pilgrims are taking part in mourning rituals commemorating the killing of the Prophet ...

Nearly 200 nations have agreed a legally binding deal to cut back on greenhouse gases used in refrigerators and air conditioners, a major step against climate change that prompted loud cheers when it was announced on Saturday. The deal, which includes the world’s two biggest economies, the United States and China, divides countries into three ...

President John Dramani Mahama has arrived in Lomé, Togo, to attend the Heads of State meeting of the African Union Extraordinary Summit on Maritime Security and Safety and Development in Africa. The Lomé summit is aimed at making maritime space the key driver of Africa’s economic and social development. Discussions will focus on issues of ...

The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the Ledzokuku constituency in the Greater Accra Region, Dr. Okoe Boye, has accused the incumbent Member of Parliament, Benita Sena Okity-Duah, of providing poor leadership for the area since she was voted in 2012. Okoe Boye said her inefficiency has given the people of the area no ...

More than 17,000 people in Ghana die annually as a result of exposure to air pollution, with children and women being the most affected victims, Mrs Gina McCarthy, a US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, had said. More numbers of allergies in both adults and children would also be recorded due to the high amounts ...

Dr. Kwame Anim Boamah, the Director of the Koforidua Regional Hospital, has appealed to breast cancer survivors to accept to do more to inspire others suffering from the disease to seek medical treatment. He said they were the “living testimony” that patients could be saved – to lead normal life, given early report of the ...

The New Patriotic Party’s running mate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has been accused of vote buying barely two months to the general elections. According to the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) which made the claim, Dr. Bawumia’s borehole he constructed for the Amedzofe College of Education (AMECO) was a “last minute” move “aimed at securing votes.” Dr. ...

The National Peace Council (NPC) has called on journalists to go the extra mile to make sure that the truth is never sacrificed under any circumstance for political expediency. Mr. Francis Azuimah, the Executive Secretary of the council, said journalists should avoid indiscretion – anything unethical, likely to inflame passion and throw the country into ...

Relationships that work are the ones that are worked on. If you are wondering where to begin, here are some areas that can always use a little TLC. Communication. Being able to share the emotional, mental, physical, and spiritualaspects of your life, without feeling judged or devalued, is what good communication is all about. Neither ...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration and Member of Parliament for the Awutu-Senya West constituency, Hanna Serwah Tetteh has donated two ambulances to the Awutu Bawjiase and Bereku Health Facilities. Presenting the equipment, Hanna Tetteh said she procured the vehicles with her four- year share of the National Health Insurance Scheme Fund for ...

Google has launched a new feature, fact check, which will add a label next to news stories in search results. Fact check will appear with other news organisations in Google News and will, Google says, “shine a light on its efforts to divide fact from fiction”. Richard Gingras, Google’s head of news, added it will ...

Zamalek chairman Mortada Mansour revealed that FIFA threatened Zamalek with a six-point deduction in the league if Junior Agogo’s late dues were not paid within 15 days. Agogo joined Zamalek from English club Nottingham Forest in the summer of 2008, when the club was chaired by Mamdouh Abbas. However, only nine months after joining Zamalek, ...

Three men have been charged with plotting to bomb Somali immigrants at an apartment building and mosque in the US state of Kansas. Curtis Allen, 49, Gavin Wright, 49, and Patrick Eugene Stein, 47, had gathered firearms and explosives for the attack, according to the US Justice Department. The members of a militia group called ...

The Electricity Company of Ghana ECG in the Western Region on Thursday took some 22 journalists from across the region through the operations of the company. The exposure was to help journalists understand and appreciate the distribution business of the company. According to the Western Regional Public relations officer of the ECG Philip Osei Bonsu, ...

The Electricity Company of Ghana ECG in the Western Region on Thursday took some 22 journalists from across the region through the operations of the company. The exposure was to help journalists understand and appreciate the distribution business of the company. According to the Western Regional Public relations officer of the ECG Philip Osei Bonsu, ...

May Obiri Yeboah, the Executive Director of the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC), says Ghana has made commendable strides in the attainment of the targets under the National Road Safety Action Plans for 2015-2017. Speaking at the opening of a stakeholders’ conference to assess the status of implementation of the Plan 2015-2017, under the National ...

Ace comedienne, Helen Paul, is featuring in this Saturday’s episode of the hilarious TV drama, Professor Johnbull, sponsored by Glo.    This episode of the sensational TV series will showcase the versatility of Helen, who was better known as a radio programme host with an uncanny ability to mimic children’s voices to hilarious effect. Interestingly, this episode ...