US President Donald Trump has met Pope Francis at the Vatican for a short private audience on the third leg of his overseas trip. He arrived for the meeting along with his wife Melania, daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner. The meeting was keenly awaited as the two men have already clashed at a distance ...
Though 70 per cent of residents in the Ho Municipal Area have treated mosquito nets, only 40 per cent use them to prevent malaria, Mr Prosper Amegadzi, the Municipal Malaria Focal Person, said on Tuesday. He said a survey conducted on the shortfall revealed that a good number of people in the Municipality kept the ...
The Attorney General has prayed an Accra High Court for more time to file its defence in a case involving a dismissed district director of the National Service Scheme. (NSS) Madam Afua Abam from the AG’s office said they needed more time to go through the the writ so as to respond. The district director, ...
The Elmina Fish Processing Plant has been officially handed over to a Ghanaian management firm, Raphael Spectrum Company Ltd. The facility was constructed by Expotec International Ltd of India at a cost of US$ 7.48 million with funding from the EXAM Bank of India. The inauguration and handing over ceremony was done at Elmina on ...
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus from Ethiopia will be the next director general of the World Health Organization (WHO). He will be the first African to head up the UN agency, after winning the most votes from 186 member states. He replaces Margaret Chan, who will step down from her 10-year post at the end of June. ...
After a head-scratching home loss on Sunday night and a sloppy, sluggish first half on Tuesday, the Cavaliers flipped that proverbial switch after intermission – shooting 71 percent from the floor in the second stanza and blowing past the Celtics, 112-99, to take Game 4 at The Q. The Wine and Gold now stand one ...
The man at the centre of the John Dumelo Instagram post controversy, Godfred Obeng Boateng, has expressed his admiration for dance hall artiste Shatta Wale, Citi Showbiz has gathered. In an interview on Metro TV’s ‘Business ‘Edition’, on Tuesday evening, he could not hide the respect he had for the controversial artiste, while he was ...
The Ghana Association of Private Employment Agencies (GHAPEA) has called on government and the security agencies to help flush out illegal migration agencies in the country. Speaking at a press conference today, Chairman of the association, Alhaj Saeed Shereef said the operations of over 270 illegal migration agencies in the country is posed a threat ...
Samsung’s eye-scanning security technology, used on the new Galaxy S8 smartphone, has been fooled with a photograph and a contact lens. The iris-scanner can be used to unlock the phone simply by looking at it, which Samsung says provides “airtight security”. But researchers at Chaos Computer Club had easily tricked the device with a picture ...
The UK terror threat level has been raised to its highest level of “critical”, meaning further attacks may be imminent, Theresa May has said. Military personnel will now be deployed to protect key sites under the new threat level. Meanwhile the mother of Olivia Campbell has named her daughter as the fourth victim of Monday ...
The Central Regional Minister, Kwamena Duncan, has revealed that most second cycle institutions in the Central Region are on lands that have not been properly acquired. The situation, he stated, “has been a major factor encouraging private developers to encroach on public lands”. He made the revelation in his maiden speech at the first Central ...
The Co-Chair of the multi-stakeholder committee of the Ghana Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (GHEITI), Dr. Steve Manteaw has said the Minister of Energy, Boakye Agyarko consistent criticism of the Electricity Company of Ghana may be because of the pending privatization. The sector minister on several platforms consistently criticized the management of ECG for the inefficiencies ...
The maiden edition of the Daily Guide Essay competition has been launched in Accra with the aim of encouraging the reading and writing culture among the youth. Editor of Daily Guide Newspaper, Alhaji A. R Gomda during the launch on Wednesday, said that the competition is to test the knowledge of entrants and to encourage ...
President Akufo Addo will today leave Accra for Sierra Leone for a day’s visit. The visit forms part of his tour of all West African countries. The President while in Serra Leone will hold bilateral talks with his counterpart Ernest Bai Koroma. He is also expected to meet Ghanaians in Sierra Leone where he will ...
A probe ordered into the cost of a military cemetery under construction at the Burma Camp last week has resulted in the downward review by some $1.5 million. The Minister of Defence, on his tour of the site last week, ordered an investigation into the cost of the project which was estimated at $6 million ...
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