Prepackaged food may come in handy and very helpful but a health expert, Mavis Manns of the Chiropractic and Wellness Centre (CWC), has warned of its dire health complications with the regular consumption of such food. According to her, frequent eating of what she termed junk foods was inimical to health and shortens lifespan. Speaking ...

Public tickets for the Manchester benefit concert have sold out within 20 minutes of going on general sale. But some tickets have been reserved for fans who attended last Monday’s Ariana Grande show who have not yet been able to claim free places. Those fans will now be able to register for tickets to One ...

Survivors say 44 people have died of thirst after their truck broke down in the Sahara Desert in northern Niger, the Red Cross has told the BBC. The six survivors, all women, walked to a remote village and are being looked after in Dirkou, Niger, Red Cross official Lawal Taher said. They say several children ...

Survivors say 44 people have died of thirst after their truck broke down in the Sahara Desert in northern Niger, the Red Cross has told the BBC. The Ghanaians and Nigerians were trying to get to Libya, according to Nigerien news site Sahelien. The six survivors, all women, walked to a remote village and are ...

Mobile internet access in Ethiopia has been blocked by the government – but officials are refusing to say why. It was reported last year that the country banned access to social media sites after university entrance exams were leaked online. There has been speculation that similar motives lie behind the latest “blackout”, although some reject this. ...

Ghanaian midfielder Kwadwo Asamoah is full of confidence as his side, Juventus, seek their first UEFA Champions League trophy since 1996 when they take on Real Madrid. The Turin giants have been in very impressive form in this season’s competition and dispatched some big name teams including Barcelona on their way to the final. Juventus ...

The police have retrieved the pistol of the late Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama. The pistol went missing on Monday after his  gruesome killing. On Tuesday, the soldiers who were dispatched to the Denkyira Obuasi town for initial investigations and to retrieve the remains of the slain soldier, pledged not to leave until they were able ...

The launch of the 2017 edition of the Citi Business Festival is underway at the head office of MTN in Ridge, Accra. The festival will include a series of on-air and outdoor events on different areas of the economy. Some personalities at the launch include the Minister of Business Development Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, Chief Executive ...

Groupe Nduom, a multi-national company of Ghanaian and American origin on Monday May 29, 2017, started a programme to introduce the products and services of some of its subsidiaries to consumers in London, UK. The programme, which ends on Sunday, June 4th 2017, has two set of Groupe Nduom managers speaking about their products and ...

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly is looking to revamp the National Sanitation Day initiative to put the onus of ensuring decent sanitary conditions on residents in the communities. Speaking on Eyewitness News, the AMA Chief Executive, Mohammed Nii Adjei Sowah, said residents must instead be compelled to deal with their refuse. “The Assembly’s position is that, we ...

At the recently held event dubbed, HR Mix&Mingle, organised by HR Focus Magazine, the HR Focus Conference and Awards 2017 has been launched. It was launched with a call on organisations and individuals to send in their nominations to vie for any of the 20 categories that make up the awards this year. The HR ...

Strict new cyber-security legislation is not aimed at limiting foreign companies operating in the country, Chinese officials have said. The law, due to come into effect on 1 June, bans the collection and sale of users’ personal information. Firms will also have to store user data on servers inside China, and people will be given ...

Ten soldiers have been killed in a government air strike in the embattled city of Marawi in the Philippines. Eight soldiers were also wounded in the “friendly fire” incident on Wednesday, said defence secretary Delfin Lorenzana, expressing remorse. Over the last week militants allied to the so-called Islamic State have engaged in street battles with ...

Breast surgeon Ian Paterson has been jailed for 15 years after carrying out unnecessary cancer operations. Paterson, 59, was convicted over operations on nine women and one man, but there were hundreds of other victims. He was found guilty of 17 counts of wounding with intent and three of unlawful wounding, after his trial. Jurors ...

It is unclear what sparked the clashes but a senior police officer told the BBC that a police station had been set on fire. One media report says that a policeman had confronted a navy officer for failing to stop at some traffic lights. The police and the navy have not officially commented on the ...

Busy has launched the second phase of its e-learning and social portal, JUMP. Branded JUMP Academy, the addition to the already exciting online educational portal sees the inclusion of audio-visual materials covering various academic and professional courses put together by experienced professionals and lecturers tailored to the local curriculum. JUMP JUMP Academy has been added ...

It was an amazing and unforgettable experience when the children of five selected orphanages from across Ghana, battled it out for the bragging rights and winning prizes in the first edition of a one-day mini soccer tournament dubbed ‘Orphanage League’. After a very competitive knockout stage amongst the teams of the Great Mission International Children’s ...

The late Captain Mahama’s year group from St. John’s School, Sekondi, has urged against the politicization of the death of their classmate who was murdered at Denkyira-Obuasi in an incident that shocked the nation. The group, from 2004, in a statement said, “we plead with government and the nation as a whole not to, in ...

Some youth of Asante Akyem Central Municipality in the Ashanti Region, have rendered an unqualified apology to the President for their behaviour during the sitting to confirm the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for the area. They have thus pleaded with the President to for the second time re-nominate Mr. George Kyei Baffour as Municipal Chief ...