Members of the Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese District Assembly in the Central Region have today (Tuesday) voted to confirm the President’s District Chief Executive nominee, Felicia Aba Hagan. Her confirmation makes her the last nominee to get the nod of an assembly in the Region, following her initial rejection by the Assembly members earlier in May this year. ...

A group calling itself the Concerned LLB Graduates, has run to court to seek an interlocutory injunction to stop the upcoming entrance examination and interview session for potential students seeking enrollment into the Ghana Law School. The General Legal Council (GLC) has vowed to organize the exams on July 14, 2017, and continue with the ...

Speaker of Parliament, Prof Mike Oquaye, has warned that leaders in countries like Ghana would not countenance the aggressive push by external forces to accept acts such as homosexuality, bestiality among others. His caution follows a courtesy call on him today [Tuesday] by Amnesty International, where they made demands including a scrapping of the death ...

Over the last couple of weeks, social media has been buzzing with videos of a young Ghanaian rapper ToyBoi. The rapper who raps in English, Twi and Ga is an Osu – based musician who burst onto the music scene after videos of him free-styling went viral on social media with his ‘Bar4Bar’ freestyle video ...

Ads are coming to Facebook Messenger. After testing Messenger ads in Australia and Thailand, Facebook announced on Tuesday that any advertiser will be able to buy ads in the app, which boasts 1.2 billion users. The ads won’t be shown in conversations. They will instead exist in the main inbox tab between chat threads. Facebook ...

The National Accreditation Board (NAB) has asked persons who have been conferred with honorary doctorate degrees to desist from using the title ‘Dr’, since it is wrong to do so. It further asked all those who have received questionable honorary doctorates from unaccredited institutions to forthwith stop using the title. In an interview with the ...

The Ashanti Regional Veterinary Service has temporarily banned the movement of pigs in the region. This follows the outbreak of swine fever in the region. According to the Regional Veterinary Officer, Dr. Emmanuel Edward Effah, a directive has been given to veterinary staff in the affected districts to stop issuing permits for the movements of pigs. ...

Former flagbearer of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Dr. Edward Nasigri Mahama, has described as lies claims that he expelled some members of his party for accepting positions offered by both the National Democratic Congress (NDC), and New Patriotic Party (NPP) administrations in times past. Dr. Edward Mahama, who led the PNC into five different ...

The Appeals Court has set July 26, 2017 to rule on the embattled Human Rights lawyer Francis Xavier Sosu’s application for stay of execution of his three-year ban handed him by the General Legal Council. The judge, Justice Henry Kwofie fixed the date after parties in the case made their respective oral submission to the ...

Traders in the Ashaiman main market have threatened to demonstrate against the Ashiaman Municipal Assembly (ASHMA) over poor conditions in the market. The traders, who were visibly not happy about the situation, therefore issued a one week ultimatum to the Assembly to fix the problem or face their wrath. The entire floor which is not ...

The Executive Director of the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers of Ghana (COPEC), Duncan Amoah, has suggested that illegalities in the sale of contaminated fuel is more costly than illegal mining hence requires a strong political will and adequate resources to tackle it. According to him, Ghana lost about GH¢850 million in just one year as a result of ...

The immediate past Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Nii Osah Mills has expressed shock and disappointment over revelations that a secret audio visual recording device found in the office he previously occupied. According to him the revelation by his colleague, Inusah Fuseini who said he fixed the device in the office is unfair because he ...

James Rodriguez has joined Bayern Munich from Real Madrid on a two-year loan deal, the Bundesliga champions have announced. The Colombia international’s future at the Bernabeu had been in doubt after he was left out of Real’s squad for the Champions League final win over Juventus last month. Manchester United had been linked with a ...

The Ghana Immigration Service has opened a new border post in Agortime-Afegame in the Volta Region to improve surveillance in fighting cross-border crimes. Although West Africa is one of the most mobile regions in the world, systems and structures to manage the increasing movements and its accompanying crimes are mostly inadequate and ineffective. The porous ...

The 2016 flagbearer of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Dr. Edward Nasigri Mahama, says his new position as an Ambassador-at-large under the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) administration, will afford him an opportunity to serve Ghana. “We practice democracy even in the PNC; and people are entitled to their opinions about this issue. But I know ...

Former President John Dramani Mahama has cautioned members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) seeking to solicit information from other party executives and members under the pretext that they are being sponsored by him to desist from such acts. A statement from the office of the former President indicated that “some members of the party ...

Thirty-five people have died in the past year from measles outbreaks across Europe, the World Health Organization has warned. It described the deaths – which can be prevented with vaccination – as an “unacceptable tragedy”. A six-year-old boy in Italy was the latest to die from the infection. More than 3,300 measles cases have been ...

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers of Ghana (COPEC), has alleged that some illegal fuel dealers are harbouring the supposed contaminated fuel belonging to the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company Limited (BOST) in Tema and Kpone in the Greater Accra Region. Following the public uproar over BOST’s sale of 5 million litres of contaminated fuel ...

SuperSport has acquired pay TV media rights in Sub-Saharan Africa for the next two Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games. This renewed partnership with the International Olympic Committee will take in the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018, the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 and the Olympic Games in 2024 in ...