Togo President, Faure Gnassingbè has been announced as the new chair of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). He takes over from Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to serve as the sub-regional body’s head for the next 12 months. His election was announced on Sunday, June 4, 2017 at the 51st Ordinary Session of ...

Twelve people have been arrested after the London terror attack which left seven people dead and 48 injured. The arrests in Barking, east London, followed a raid at a flat belonging to one of the three attackers. A van hit pedestrians on London Bridge at 21:58 BST on Saturday. Three men then got out and ...

A big church service, supervised by one of Ghana’s famous preacher-men, was held in the West African country on Sunday to celebrate football club, Chelsea’s 2016/17 English Premier League title success. The massively-attended service hosted by Rev. Dr. Ebenezer Markwei (an Arsenal fan) at the Living Streams International Church in Accra was held with members ...

Former President and founder of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Jerry John Rawlings, is calling for a complete overhaul of his party. According to him, this is the only way the party could come back strong for the next election in 2020. Speaking at the 38th-anniversary of June 4th at Wa in the Upper West ...

Ghana’s premier cement manufacturer, Ghacem, will from next week start training block-makers across the country to equip them with skills on the best grade of cement for block making. The innovation, which is under the Ghacem Cement Academy, is a flagship program of the manufacturing company aimed at reducing unemployment as well as improving the ...

The fight launched by the Media Coalition Against Galamsey is yielding some positive results, the District Chief Executive (DCE) of Twifo Atti-Morkwa, has disclosed. Mr Robert Agyemang Nyantakyi, who made this known when he led journalists to the River Pra on Saturday said: “we are grateful to the government and Coalition of the Media, our ...

The leaders of the Osu Traditional area on Friday lifted the ban on drumming and noise making in preparation towards their Homowo festival set to occur on Tuesday, August 22, 2017. The ban (Nmaa Dumor) and the lifting (Nmaa Faa), thus planting and harvesting of the first maize in the year by the Ga-Dangme traditional ...

The Member of Parliament for the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency, Emmanuel Agyarko, is of the view that the persons who lynched the late military officer, Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama, might have acted under the influence of alcohol or Indian hemp. According to him, he cannot comprehend how a normal person would hit his fellow human being ...

The Ghana Chamber of Mines has initiated a process to launch an online portal on local content to provide in-depth information on mining inputs required by members, which manufacturers and suppliers could bid to provide. The portal, which would be launched later this year, would support potential investors and local entrepreneurs with up-to-date and specific ...

The Ghana Education Service (GES), has said it is ready to pay all invigilators  all outstanding arrears. This comes after threats from some invigilators in the Agortime-Ziope district of the Volta Region that they would boycott the Basic Education Certificate Examination over GES’ indebtedness to them. According to the invigilators, their allowances have been in ...

The Ghana Education Service (GES), has said it is ready to pay all invigilators  all outstanding arrears. This comes after threats from some invigilators in the Agortime-Ziope district of the Volta Region that they would boycott the Basic Education Certificate Examination over GES’ indebtedness to them. According to the invigilators, their allowances have been in ...

Ghanaian rapper Michael Owusu Addo known in showbiz as Sarkodie has called on investors to pay attention to the untapped opportunities in the creative arts sector. According to Sarkodie there are many opportunities in the creative arts sector that the corporate world could consider and invest in. “We make good music, movies and other art ...

As part of preparations to mark this year’s World Environment Day Celebrations on Monday, 5th June, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has planted 1,000 seedlings on some reclaimed ‘galamsey’ lands at Kyebi in the Eastern Region. The EPA said the activity falls in line with its mandate of preserving the lands and making them habitable. ...

Fire has engulfed the warehouse of Kingdom Books and Stationery close of the Free Zones Enclave at Prampram in the Greater Accra region. The cause of the fire is yet to be known. Residents around the area said they saw thick smoke billowing from the warehouse on Sunday morning at about 6.30am. Some fire personnel were ...

Antoine Griezmann says he will stay at Atletico Madrid next season as it would be a “dirty move” to leave the club after their transfer ban was upheld. The 26-year-old forward had been linked with a move to Manchester United, before their interest in him cooled. Atletico’s appeal against a transfer ban for breaching Fifa ...

Young Cadres in the Ningo Prampram Constituency of the Greater Accra Region, have organized a three-kilometre walk to commemorate the June 4 Revolution in the constituency. The young cadres made a clarion call on the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), to revisit the ideals of the party as part of efforts to rebuild ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is attending the 51st Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in Monrovia, Liberia, on June 4, 2017. President Akufo-Addo, who would be joining his counterparts at the regional meeting for the first time as Head of ...

The management and staff of the Nkrakwanta Polyclinic in the Dormaa West District of the Brong Ahafo Region, have made a passionate appeal to the government, philanthropists and corporate organizations to come to the aid of the facility. It said it needs assistance with the provision of modern health equipment and infrastructure to enable it to ...

Introduction As they say and which I also share, the task of providing quality education, including girls’ education, is about active collaboration, partnership and participation from all of us. If education really is a right and we think “All” should benefit from it, as contained in our nation’s educational plans, including the Education Strategic Plan ...

On one Saturday in the year 2008, I went out to have fun like I always did on Saturdays at the time. Unfortunately, it was one of those days you will feel the vibes outside a club, pay gate fee, enter and find about 15 boys 5 girls in there. It was boring to hell ...