The University of Mines and Technology (UMaT) has admitted 542 students to pursue Mining, Petroleum and Engineering courses in the 2016/2017 Academic year. The figure, which represents 34 per cent of the total applicants, comprise of 459 males, constituting 85 per cent and 83 females, constituting 15 per cent. The Vice Chancellor UMaT, Professor Jerry ...

Presidential Advisor on corruption, Daniel Batidam, has defended President John Mahama’s decision to distribute outboard motors to fisher folks during his campaign tour of the Western Region in August. The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), had accused the President of abusing incumbency and indulging in electoral corruption, for distributing the outboard motors among other items. According ...

The Progressive People’s Party (PPP), has accused the Electoral Commission of disqualifying its flagbearer, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, from the December 7 general elections, as a punishment for his decision to sue the commission over the filing fees it had described as  because they protested the filing fees that has exorbitant. The PPP sued the EC ...

President John Dramani Mahama is expected to take his campaign tour to the Volta Region on Monday. He will spend five days touring more than ten constituencies in the region. The President on Thursday ended the second leg tour of his campaign in the Greater Accra Region. He will be in the region from 17 to ...

The Electoral Commission has cleared 147 parliamentary nominees in the Greater Accra Regio,  making them eligible to contest the December 7 elections. According to EC, the nominees successfully met all the requirements for the contest. “All the 147 candidates who filed have gone through successfully so they can all be confirmed as parliamentary candidates across ...

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Spokesperson for Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, has jumped to the defense of his boss, saying he was only joking when he remarked that his wife belongs to the kitchen. Mallam Garba Shehu in a tweet urged people to see it as a joke, adding that the President has promoted many women: My friends, can’t a leader ...

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has responded to the his wife, Aisha’s  interview on the BBC where she questioned his leadership. Reacting to the interview during a joint press briefing with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the AP news agency reported that Buhari laughed off his wife’s comment, saying, “I don’t know which party my wife belongs ...

The Progressive People’s Party (PPP), has sued the Electoral Commission (EC), at the High Court over the decision to disqualify it’s presidential aspirant, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, from the December 7 presidential election. The PPP is seeking “an order of prohibition to restrain the EC from proceeding with balloting for position of presidential candidates for ...

The running mate of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has jabbed President John Mahama for claiming that the NPP’s proposal for Ghana’s economy won’t work. Dr. Bawumia said he is amazed by the claim because the NDC has been in office over the past 8 years and has allowed the economy ...

Government has been cautioned not to develop insatiable taste for issuing dollar denominated bond after Ghana’s first local dollar denominated bond was oversubscribed yesterday. Government yesterday raised a total of 94.62 million dollars at a rate of 6.0 percent with a maturity term of two years. Total bids were 99.6 million dollars but government accepted ...

Nomination forms submitted to the Electoral Commission by both the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and the New Patriotic Party (NPP), is set to go thorough scrutiny in court days after 13 presidential nominees were disqualified from the December polls. According to the National Treasurer of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Akane Adams, one of the parties ...

Ethiopian Airlines has won the Rising Star Career of the Year Award, for the second year in a row, at the 5th Payload Asia Awards 2016 held in Hong Kong. Payload Asia 2016 honors the very best in the Air Cargo Industry which has confronting and overcoming the manifold challenges in the air cargo sector ...

YFM Ghana’s latest reality show dubbed “The One” kicked off in Kumasi with hundreds of hopefuls turning up at the Plush Lounge at the Jubilee Mall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. The show, which is designed to turn the winner into an instant celebrity, will start airing daily on YFM. E.TV ...

The Minister of Finance, Seth Terkper, is expected to present to Parliament next week Thursday, an Advanced Budget; covering government spending for the first quarter of 2017. The statement will detail the projected revenue and expenditure between January and March next year. This practice is in accordance with what the Executive does almost every election ...

Suspected Islamist militants have killed 12 soldiers and injured eight in an attack on an army checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula, Egyptian security sources say. The army says 15 militants were also killed in the attack, which took place near the town of Bir al-Abd. Gunmen from the Sinai Province group are reported to be ...

Almost 6,000 web shops are unknowingly harbouring malicious code that is stealing the credit card details of customers, suggests research. The code has been injected into the sites by cyberthieves, said Dutch developer Willem De Groot. He found the 5,925 compromised sites by scanning for the specific signature of the data-stealing code in website software. ...

Central Regional Deputy Director of the Electoral Commission (EC), Anthony Nyame,  has admonished political parties to provide adequate training for persons who would serve as polling agents for the December 7 general election. He said presenting polling agents who were knowledgeable, vigilant and tolerant, would clear suspicion and doubts of the election results and contribute to ...

The Progressive People’s Party (PPP), has turned to the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO), and the Auditor-General, to investigate the Electoral Commission for giving them a receipt they claimed is ridden with mistakes. According to the party, they believe the EC “is on a course of a possible fraudulent act” because of the receipt which ...

The Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), has accused President John Mahama of abusing incumbency and indulging in electoral corruption, for distributing outboard motors to Fisher folks during his campaign tour of the Western Region in August. According to GII, this abuse of incumbency became apparent when the Spokesperson of the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) campaign, Joyce ...