Richard Commey, Frederick Lawson and Duke Micah were the toast of Ghanaian boxing on Saturday at the Freedon Fight Night organised by Streetwise Promotions together with Errol Hawk Sports Management at the Bukom Boxing Emporium in Accra. The three boxers won their respective title bouts at the event to start 2017 on a winning note. ...

The Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo, has been dragged before the Supreme court by a member of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), James Kwabena Bomfeh over government’s decision to build a national cathedral. According to Mr Bomfeh, government must not be engaged in religious affairs within the country and therefore it is assistance to Muslim pilgrims ...

After six days of touring the country, the Citi FM Heritage Caravan has returned to Accra. The Second edition of the Heritage Caravan, saw over ninety tourists embark on a road trip to discover the rich and lovely story of Ghana embedded in different parts of the country. This year the Caravan started its tour ...

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has prayed for forgiveness for what he described as sins he may have committed while exercising his duty as the head of state, reports the privately owned Eye Rdio FM website. Today was declared a national holiday in the country so that a national day of prayer could be held. ...

A one-month-old girl abducted in an apparent car-jacking in the South African city of Durban on Friday has been found safe and well. Police stopped a vehicle between Durban and Pietermaritzburg at about midnight on Saturday and found Siwaphiwe Mbambo inside. Three people were detained. Two suspects had allegedly car-jacked the mother’s vehicle outside a ...

Dutch riot police have clashed with protesters in Rotterdam, amid a diplomatic row that saw a Turkish minister escorted out of the country. Water cannon and police on horseback were used to disperse about 1,000 people outside the Turkish consulate. The minister was trying to win support among expatriates for a referendum on expanding Turkish ...

Joni Sledge, the singer best-known for the disco anthem We Are Family, has died aged 60. Sledge, who formed Sister Sledge with her three siblings in 1971, was found unresponsive by a friend at her home in Phoenix, Arizona, her publicist said. She had not been ill and the cause of death is unknown. Sledge, ...

The Coalition of SADA Zone Civil Society Organizations have condemn recent attacks on officials of one of its partners, Unique Savannah by an alleged NPP-affiliated youth group in Tamale, Kandaha boys. The group, is alleged to have assaulted the officials without provocation. The injured officials are have been hospitalized in Tamale still receiving treatment. A ...

Young lives are wasting away tragically and all we are interested in is reporting it. What did we expect when we only care about the grades they are making in school while we leave their emotional health to chance. Our education system urgently needs an effective counselling program. In a space of two weeks, we ...

The inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has unveiled a plan to tackle data abuse and fake news. In an open letter to mark the web’s 28th anniversary, Sir Tim has set out a five-year strategy amid concerns he has about how the web is being used. Sir Tim said he wants ...

Mali is facing a possible Fifa suspension after the country’s sports minister missed a deadline to revoke his dissolution of the football federation’s Executive Committee. Mali Sports Minister Housseini Amion Guindo took his action on Wednesday and duly installed an interim committee to lead the federation (Femafoot) until a new board can be elected. Femafoot ...

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said that the world will respect Africa only when it detaches itself from aid and handouts from the west. According to him, Africa must emancipate itself from freebies and strive for investments and favourable partnerships. “Africans will only get the respect of the rest of the world if ...

The Member of Parliament for the Builsa South constituency, Dr. Clement Apaak has challenged the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to prove his competence in managing the Ghanaian economy by saving the cedi from further fall against major trading currencies. According to him, Dr. Bawumia prior to the New Patriotic Party’s victory in the December ...

About 40 students of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CoHSS) of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology have received honorary awards at this year’s CoHSS awards  event. The CoHSS Awards, the third of its kind, this year saw Allor Precious from the Social Sciences department, Poku Efia from the Faculty of Law ...

The Minister for Railway Development, Joe Ghartey has said that his ministry, in collaboration with stakeholders in the country will help make the railway sector vibrant again. The once productive sector on which some economies including that of Sekondi and Takoradi were built has since the late 90s lost its glory in the transportation industry. While ...