Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N), the No. 1 U.S. wireless carrier, reported a 20 percent fall in quarterly profit as it lost wireless postpaid subscribers despite the re-launch of unlimited data plans. Net income attributable to the company fell to $3.45 billion (2.69 billion pounds), or $0.84 per share, in the first quarter ended March 31, ...
Broadcaster and communications personnel for Charter House, George Quaye, has slammed critics of comedian Derrick Kobina Bonney aka DKB for his recent poor performance at the Easter Comedy Show. The comedian, who is reported to have put up a lacklustre performance at the Easter Comedy Show last week at the Accra International Conference Centre, has ...
Ex-Ghana coach Milovan Rajevac has been interviewed for the vacant Thailand national team job. The Serbian is seeking a return to the limelight after he was sacked by Algeria in October 2016. The 63-year-old, who took Ghana to the quarter-finals of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, was interviewed for the job on Tuesday. ...
Residents of Tindonmolgo, a suburb of Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region, are appealing to the Regional Minister, Rockson Bukari and the Regional Police Command, to clamp down on illegal miners in the region. According to the concerned residents, the emerging illegal mining in the community has led to pupils and students dropping out of ...
Some concerned students of the Bolgatanga Polytechnic have threatened to demonstrate on Monday 24th April, 2017, over what they call an inflated cost of a Nissan Caravan purchased for students by the Students Representative Council (SRC). The aggrieved students accused the school’s SRC President, Francis Bugase, of purchasing a rickety van at an inflated cost ...
Britain is losing up to 1 billion pounds a year in value added tax (VAT) because of fraud or error by sellers using online marketplaces eBay and Amazon, a report by the government auditor said. The National Audit Office (NAO) said on Wednesday that the sellers involved are often based in China and that consumer ...
The Ministry of Finance has described attacks on the $2.25 billion bond issued recently as baseless. The Minority group in parliament, led by a former Deputy Finance Minister, Mr. Cassiel Ato Forson alleged that the issuance was done in secrecy, denying other investors an opportunity to participate in the bond. The Minority further alleged that ...
The Chief Executive Officer of Dalex Finance, Ken Thompson, has little hope in the $2.25 billion bond sparking any substantial or long-term economic turnaround. Indications are that the Cedi may be set for a period of relative stability after significant depreciation on the interbank foreign exchange market and across forex bureaus in the country in 2017. ...
President Akufo Addo has announced that government will construct a warehouse in every district of the country. This he said will ensure the proper storage of surplus food produce from the flagship ‘Planting for Food and Job’ program and prevent post-harvest losses which have been a bane to agriculture in Ghana. According to the President, ...
Government would have to step up efforts in dealing with the country’s debt levels, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has indicated. Ghana’s debt as at the end of 2016 was 122 billion cedis, which as a percentage of GDP is 74 percent, up from the 67.4 percent or 112 billion cedis recorded in the third ...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Wednesday committed $335 million dollars in grants over the next four years to support various Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) programmes in affected countries. This would include; $42 million-dollar that would go for the continuation of Jimmy Carter’s guinea worm eradication initiative and hoped it would be the first ...
The First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has tasked the Queen Mothers of the Greater Accra to unite for the necessary development of the region, when Queen Mothers from Ngleshie and the Greater Accra Association of Queen Mothers and priestesses, called on her to congratulate her and pledge their support for her and the President Nana ...
One person is reported dead and two others injured in a shooting incident that occurred yesterday [Wednesday] in a bush between the Nkonya and Alavanyo communities in the Volta Region. The incident reportedly occurred at about 2pm. Reports say some unknown assailants fire at five farmers from Nkonya-Ahinkro who were returning from their farm on ...
Two persons have been reported dead with other injured in a shooting incident that occurred yesterday [Wednesday] in a bush between the Nkonya and Alavanyo communities in the Volta Region. The incident reportedly occurred at about 2pm. Reports say some unknown assailants fire at five farmers from Nkonya-Ahinkro who were returning from their farm on ...
A man believed to be in his early 50s has being remanded into prison custody for allegedly shooting a pump attendant to death in Paga in the Upper East Region. The suspect, Osman Paredavua shot the pump attendant of Quantum Petroleum, Moses Akazuo, 30, on Monday 17th April, 2017. The deceased is said to have ...
Former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has received an OBE from Prince William for services to the fashion industry. Victoria, who was joined by her husband and parents for the investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace, was recognised for her 17-year career. Former heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill was made a Dame, and celebrated actor Mark Rylance received a ...
Facebook says it is working on technology to allow us to control computers directly with our brains. It is developing “silent speech” software to allow people to type at a rate of 100 words per minute, it says. The project, in its early stages, will require new technology to detect brainwaves without needing invasive surgery. ...
At least three people have been killed in Venezuela in protests against the government of President Nicolas Maduro. A teenager in the capital Caracas and a woman in San Cristobal, near the Colombian border, were shot dead. A national guardsman was killed south of the capital. Tens of thousands of people rallied to demand new ...
Celebrities and “influencers” in the US have been warned to clearly identify when they are promoting products on Instagram in return for payment. The consumer regulator sent letters to more than 90 individuals and marketing firms, though it has not revealed who was put on notice. It is the first time the regulator has intervened ...
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