Celebrated Ghanaian entrepreneur and President and Chairman of Groupe Nduom (GN), a multinational conglomerate, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has won another international award in the United Kingdom (UK). The business magnate was early this year recognised and commended by the State of Georgia in the United States of America (USA) for his tremendous impact on ...
Reigning English Premier League Champions, Chelsea FC, has acknowledged its fans at Accra-based Living Streams International Church for celebrating its league success. The team noted that, the celebration of their victory by the Ghanaian Church, and the massive support it enjoys in Ghana can be attributed to Michael Essien’s efforts while with the club between 2005 ...
The President of the University of Leicester Alumni Ghana, Jonathan Teye, and the Managing Director of the International Distance Education Centre, (IDEC), Emmanuel Kwashie Agbodzi, on Monday [June 6] visited the family of the late Major Maxwell Mahama to commiserate with them. The army officer was a Distance Learning student at the University of Leicester’s ...
The Safety Audit team assessing the Kintampo Kintampo Waterfalls after the accident that claimed 18 lives in March 2017, has concluded that poor supervision and the dereliction of public safety responsibilities, among others, contributed to the tragedy. Speaking on the floor of Parliament, the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Catherine Afeku, noted that, ...
Businessman, philanthropist and President of the Ghana Rugby Football Union, Mr. Herbert Mensah, on Sunday empathized with some families in the Nima enclave of Accra, who were affected by devastating flood waters two years ago by breaking bread with them in their Ramadan period. Just before the breaking of the fast at the Baaba Attah Mosque, Mr. Mensah presented beverages, Ever Pure water, ...
The West African Examination Council (WAEC), has said it will not schedule new examination sittings for candidates of Bunkpurugu in the Northern Region, who could not take part in the first Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) paper. “They would have to use the February 2018 window for re-sitters because once it is gone, you can’t go ...
The Upper East Regional Communication team and Serial callers’ of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), have suspended all party activities over the party’s inability to give any of their members an appointment to serve in President Nana Addo’s government. A statement issued by the group, indicated that, until their demands are met, the party’s communication team would ...
Russian security software-maker Kaspersky has filed an anti-trust complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission. It claims that the software giant is abusing its market dominance by pushing Windows 10 users towards its own anti-virus software. The European Commission confirmed it had received the complaint. Microsoft said its security features “comply with competition laws”. In ...
A man has been shot by police outside the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris after he tried to attack an officer using a hammer, police say. The suspect has been wounded in the chest, French media report. Officials say this is a “terrorist incident”. Some 900 people are still inside the cathedral. Pictures on social ...
US President Donald Trump has claimed credit for the pressure being placed on Qatar by Gulf neighbours who accuse it of supporting terrorism in the region. Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, Yemen, Libya’s eastern-based government and the Maldives have all cut diplomatic and other ties with Qatar. Mr Trump said he was told during his ...
Four students of the Koforidua Technical University, have filed for an injunction against the school’s Students Representative Council (SRC) elections. The four, Prince Akoto Appaetu, Opoku Garry, Benjamin Arthur and Gospel Klint who filed a Motion for Interlocutory injunction, seek to restrain the school’s Electoral Commission from conducting the 2017/2018 elections for the executive officers, until the ...
The Minister of Tourism, Catherine Afeku, has denied the seizure of the Kintampo Waterfalls by the Pro-New Patriotic Party (NPP) vigilante group, Invisible Forces, in the moments leading to the tragedy that claimed some 20 lives in March, 2017. The Chief of Kyeremankoma, had alleged that tour guides at the waterfall were sacked by some ...
Black Stars skipper Asamoah Gyan arrived in style for his first training session with the Black Stars shortly after touching down from his base in the United Arab Emirates. Gyan who earns £227,000 a week (£11.8m annually) from Chinese club Shanghai SIPG was chauffeured to the Accra Sports Stadium in a customised Mercedes-Benz bus. A peek ...
The third London Bridge attacker has been named as 22-year-old Youssef Zaghba, a Moroccan-Italian man. Pakistan-born Khuram Butt, 27, and Rachid Redouane, 30, both from Barking were the other two attackers. Meanwhile, another victim has been named as Australian nurse Kirsty Boden, 28, who her family said had run towards London Bridge to help people. ...
Several cars that ply the Ashaiman Adjei Kojo-Klagon underpass ,were on Tuesday morning stranded and held up in traffic for several hours as a result of Monday night’s downpour for a few hours. The under bridge was virtually flooded in the early hours of Tuesday, thereby making it difficult for saloon cars to use. Cars ...
President Nana Akufo-Addo has appointed the former Member of Parliament for Tema West Constituency, Irene Naa Torshie Addo, as the new administrator for the District Assembly Common Fund (DACF). This was contained in a letter addressed to the Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye, to seek her approval through the due parliamentary procedure. Naa ...
The CEO of the Private Enterprise Federation (PEF), Nana Osei-Bonsu, has stressed the need for more support from the government if indigenous businesses are to succeed. Speaking during the Investment Opportunities Forum at the Citi Business Festival, Mr. Osei-Bonsu said this would be more beneficial to Ghanaian businesses and investors, asserting that, “we are not ...
The Upper East Regional Police Command has confirmed the arrest of three persons in connection with the lynching of a 67-year-old woman accused of being a witch. The deceased, Madam Yenboka Kenna, a widow, was killed at the Pelungu market on Monday, May 29, 2017. The Regional Police Commander, COP Vincent Redeemer, told Citi News ...
The Minister of State in charge of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture Dr. Nurah Gyiele, has said his outfit is struggling to register the targeted 200,000 smallholder farmers under the Planting for Food and Jobs programme. According to him, even though the farming season has set in, the total number of farmers registered under the programme is ...
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