Five people have been killed by a storm in Cape Town that South African media dubbed “the mother of all storms”. Schools and universities have had to shut, roofs were blown off and shelters have been opened for those left destitute. The storm comes at the end of the region’s worst drought in a century. ...
Zimbabwean police have cautioned unsuspecting men and the general public to be wary of a group of women accused of sexually assaulting men in the capital Harare. Two separate incidents were reported last week after an August last year incident when four women drugged and “sexually molested” a 29-year-old man they had offered a lift. ...
The Head of Public Relations for the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), in the Western Region, Philip Osei Bonsu, is amongst forty (40) fellows who are heading to the United States of America (USA) for the 2017 Mandela Washington Fellowship of the Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI). Announcing the 2017 cohort of the Mandela Washington ...
The Minister of Tourism, Catherine Afeku, has said the Kintampo Waterfalls will be reopened to the public on September 1, 2017. According to Madam Afeku, officials of the Ghana Tourism Authority and over 40 engineers are busy renovating the facility. The facility was closed down for months, after a disaster at the venue killed about 20 people and ...
A woman from Atlanta has sparked outrage on social media after publicly announcing that she quit her job to breastfeed her 36-year-old bodybuilder boyfriend. Speaking to The Sun, Jennifer Mulford claimed she wanted to start an ‘Adult Breastfeeding Relationship’ with her partner Brad Leeson after reading about the bond breastfeeding could create between two people. ...
A woman from Atlanta has sparked outrage on social media after publicly announcing that she quit her job to breastfeed her 36-year-old bodybuilder boyfriend. Speaking to The Sun, Jennifer Mulford claimed she wanted to start an ‘Adult Breastfeeding Relationship’ with her partner Brad Leeson after reading about the bond breastfeeding could create between two people. ...
An internet audit conducted by the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) has uncovered a huge payroll fraud which has cost the country about GH¢50 million. The amount, according to the findings of the report, is an aggregation of unearned allowances paid to unposted beneficiaries, funds for official use which were paid into personal accounts, as well ...
A Ghanaian non-governmental organization (NGO), Youth Empowerment Synergy (YES-Ghana), has dragged a US based NGO, Cooperative Housing Foundation operating in Ghana as Global Communities, to the Human Rights Court for abrogating a contract between the two organizations. The Ghanaian NGO is praying the Court to place an injunction on the termination of YES-Ghana’s involvement in ...
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has assured that candidates taking part in the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), will enjoy government’s free Senior High School programme. The much hyped Free SHS policy by the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), is expected to kick start in the next academic year which begins in September 2017. ...
Teachers of Methodist Primary A and B, Holy Child Preparatory, Saviour Primary School and Methodist Junior High A and B in Fawohoyeden, a farming community in the Asunafo North Municipality of the Brong Ahafo Region, are threatening to boycott classes and other teaching related activities if authorities fail to beef up security in the area ...
Donald Trump says he is nominating lawyer Christopher A Wray to become the new FBI director. The post has been empty for the past month after the president fired James Comey from the role. Mr Wray served under George W Bush as an assistant attorney general from 2003 to 2005. He was also a lawyer ...
The religious wing of Turkish diplomacy, Human Development Association International (HUDAI) operating in Ghana, has supported thousands of Muslims in deprived communities of the Northern Region. As an annual ritual known as “Erzak” organized during Ramadan, the beneficiaries within the Eastern Corridor enclave received food items, beverages, gallons of cooking oil among other valuables. HUDAI’s ...
It is said that evil triumph only because good people sit and do nothing. A week after the gruesome murder of the late Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama, some Ghanaians, if not all, were looking out for the occasion of June 4th Anniversary celebration to address the questions associated with the breakdown of laws and morality ...
Former Deputy Minister of Finance, Cassiel Ato Forson has accused the Akufo-Addo government of bad faith over the order of 43 vehicles by the Mahama administration for the presidency few days to the handing over power. Mr. Ato Forson reiterated a previous position by a fellow National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament, that the vehicles ...
Zambia has detained 31 Chinese nationals for illegal mining in the African country’s copper belt but has failed to provide strong proof of their crimes, a senior Chinese diplomat said as he lodged a complaint. The Chinese Foreign Ministry’s director-general for African affairs, Lin Songtian, told a Zambian diplomat in Beijing that China understands and ...
The Akufo-Addo Administration is targeting the next 18 months to clear the debts that have saddled the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). President Nana Akufo-Addo noted that, his government has found it necessary to find the money to save the scheme from collapse. “The scheme has been threatened by mismanagement and by huge indebtedness. We ...
The next event on the calendar of the Citi Business Festival is the Sales Revolution. The two day event comes off at 8 am each day on the 15th and 16th of June at the Coconut Grove Regency Hotel. The training program will assemble top sales executives to provide adequate opportunities for sales persons and ...
The Omanhene (Paramount Chief) of the Sefwi Wiawso Traditional area in the Western Region, has commended the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), for the commitment to resolve complaints of frequent outages by residents in the northern part of the region. Katakyie Kwasi Bumangama II, made the remarks after a presentation by officials of ECG to ...
The government has every intention and the resolve to see the fight against illegal mining to the desired end, President Nana Akufo-Addo has assured. “Having begun it, we are not turning back until we make sure that our future is protected,” the President stressed during an address to the Ghanaian community in Belgium on Tuesday. He ...
Police in Mozambique have warned that bald people could be the targets of ritual attacks, after the brutal killing of two men whose body parts were thought to have been used in witchcraft. Two bald men, one of whom was found with his head cut off and organs removed, were recently killed in a part ...
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