The President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), Affail Monney, has urged the management of the New Times Corporation; managers of the state-owned Ghanaian Times Newspaper, to consider some of the easy demands of their staff, following their protest on Monday. Speaking on Eyewitness News, he said the “management also has a responsibility to address the ...

The President of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), Affail Monney, has urged the management of the New Times Corporation; managers of the state-owned Ghanaian Times Newspaper, to consider some of the easy demands of their staff, following their protest on Monday. Speaking on Eyewitness News, he said the “management also has a responsibility to address the ...

The MP for Ofoase-Ayirebi, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has awarded scholarships to 200 students in his constituency. The scholarship will supplement government’s newly launched Free Senior High School Education programme being enjoyed by the current first-year students in public second cycle institutions. The Education and Skills Development Programme committee in the constituency received over 1000 applications, ...

Black Stars B coach, Maxwell Konadu, says injuries played a huge part in the team’s 2-0 loss to Nigeria in the final WAFU Cup Group A match played in Cape Coast on Monday. Ghana conceded two second half goals from Anthony Okpotu and Peter Moses to snap their unbeaten run in the tournament despite already making ...

Second half goals from Anthony Okpotu and Peter Moses handed Nigeria a 2-0 win over Ghana in their final Group A game of the 2017 WAFU Cup of Nations at Cape Coast Sports Stadium on Monday, September 18 and consequently a place in the semifinals of the competition. The Super Eagles started fast and created ...

Gideon Galle, a 32-year-old Kente Weaver, has been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment by an Accra Circuit Court, for defiling two minors in turns at Agbogba in Accra. This was after Galle had pleaded guilty to two counts of defilement. Galle defiled two victims both aged 12 years after tying them in a room. The ...

By societal expectation, starting a family immediately after marriage is the norm, but for actress/TV presenter, Naa Ashorkor, young wives need to be given the chance to plan their way into motherhood. Naa Ashorkor, who recently gave birth to a baby boy, said the pressure for young couples to have children as soon as the ...

A Frenchman has been ordered to pay his ex wife £8, 500 in damages for failing to have enough sex with her during their marriage. The 51-year-old man was fined under article 215 of France’s civil code, which states married couples must agree to a “shared communal life”. A judge has now ruled that this law ...

Pastor Twanna Gause stepped out of a limousine amid the whir of cameras outside the New Vision Full Gospel Baptist Church in East Orange, N.J. Dressed in an off-white wedding gown and veil that sparkled in the cascading sunshine, she carried a bouquet of white roses and lilies, hugged several guests, then parted a sea ...

Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi says she does not fear “international scrutiny” of her government’s handling of the growing Rohingya crisis. It was her first national address on the violence in northern Rakhine state that has seen more than 400,000 Rohingya Muslims cross into Bangladesh. She said that most Muslims had not fled ...

Government has decided to discontinue the requirement for exemption holders to provisionally pay the import duty and taxes upfront and apply for a refund later. In March this year during the presentation of the national budget, government announced the revocation of import duty and some taxes at the ports deemed nuisance. Importers were directed to ...

Schizophrenia does not mean you have a split personality or automatically become violent, a mental health charity has warned. Rethink Mental Illness said a survey of 1,500 people showed that the condition is widely misunderstood. Schizophrenia commonly causes hallucinations, such as hearing voices, or delusions and can make people lose interest in life. But it ...

Microsoft has confirmed that some users of its email service Outlook are unable to send email or access their accounts. Hundreds from around Europe have commented on the website Downdetectorthat they have been affected by the problem – many since Monday morning. One common issue seems to be that sent emails remain in the drafts folder ...

Anti-corruption campaigner, Vitus Azeem, is calling for the prosecution of musician, Kwame Asare Obeng, popularly known as A-Plus, for making “baseless” corruption allegations against two government officials. Mr. Azeem’s comment comes after the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, stated that A-Plus could not prove his corruption allegations against the Deputy Chiefs ...

A 40-footer container which was under-declared by an importer has been intercepted by Customs officials at the Nick scan at the Tema Port. The container, which was imported from China, is said to have been mis-described, resulting in the near loss of revenue running into thousands of cedis. According to the Assistant Commissioner of Customs ...

Effective teaching and learning have been hampered at the La Presby Senior High School, as students, including beneficiaries of government’s Free SHS policy, are forced to study in uncompleted buildings without marker boards and adequate desks. The school has recently been in the news for allegedly levying fresh students some amount of money to purchase ...

Consumers should be paying more for the fuel they purchase at the various pumps from Tuesday, September 19, 2017, as Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) begin to adjust their prices to reflect the increase in the prices of their products. If the prediction by the Institute of Energy Security (IES) is anything to by, then prices ...

MP for Kumbungu, and the leader of the Freedom and Justice Group, Ras Mubarak, is open to visiting Myanmar, as the Asian country contends with allegations of state-sponsored ethnic cleansing of Muslim Minority Rohingya population. The MP said at the moment, the authorities are not allowing independent observers as “the country is putting a lot of ...

The implementation of the Free Senior High School is good news for parents whose wards enrolled in second cycle institutions this year. However, for some parents in public basic schools, especially the Junior High School, the notion that basic education in Ghana is free under the Free Compulsory Universal Basic Education (FCUBE), is just a ...