The Ghana Police Service has dispelled rumours of a supposed terror attack on Accra mall. According to the police there were reports on social media that the incident occurred at the mall on Sunday. “The Police this [Sunday] afternoon monitored information on social media that a group of terrorist had attacked the Accra mall.The police ...
Ghana’s team of local footballers on Sunday thrashed their counterparts from Nigeria by 4 goals to 1 in the final of the 2017 West African Football Union Cup of Nations championship at the Cape Coast stadium. The thrilling 95-minute encounter saw the Stars dominating play despite a seemingly fierce opposition from Nigeria. The local-based senior ...
Ghana’s team of local footballers on Sunday thrashed their counterparts from Nigeria by 4 goals to 1 in the final of the 2017 West African Football Union Cup of Nations championship at the Cape Coast stadium. The thrilling 95-minute encounter saw the Stars dominating play despite a seemingly fierce opposition from Nigeria. The local-based senior ...
There are mixed expectations ahead of the policy rate decision to be announced by the Bank of Ghana on Monday, September 25, 2017. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the central bank is set to announce a primary rate at which it will lend to commercial banks for onward lending to customers. Already, the rate ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been re-elected for a fourth term in federal elections, exit polls suggest. Her conservative CDU/CSU alliance has won 32.5% of the vote, remaining the largest party in Germany’s parliament, according to the ARD poll. Its coalition partner, the social democratic SPD, has gained 20%. Meanwhile, the AfD, a right-wing nationalist, ...
The Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has suggested that it is unnecessary for the president to set aside a separate day to celebrate some Ghanaians who contributed to the country’s eventual independence in 1957. According to him, individuals like Obetsebi Lamptey, Edward Akufo-Addo and J.B Danquah already have streets, interchanges ...
The Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said that the government is working around the clock to introduce a pension scheme for all cocoa farmers in the country. According to him, the scheme will also benefit all persons in the cocoa value chain. Speaking at the 2017 celebrations of Kundum Festival for the people of Nsein ...
The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, on Friday, inaugurated a five-Member Committee to investigate the wanton sale of state and public lands between 2013 and 2016 without recourse to the head office of the Lands Commission. The Committee, which is chaired by Dr Opoku Adusei, the Deputy Director of the Ghana Standards Authority, is ...
New figures released by the Bank of Ghana(BoG) show that the country’s total debt stock is at 138.6 billion cedis as at June 2017. The new figure shows that Ghana’s debt increased by 1.3 billion cedis from May to June 2017 as the month of May recorded a debt stock of 137.3 billion cedis. The ...
The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said that Ghana’s digital address system which will be launched in November 2017 will adopt the most advanced digital address system in the world, capable of determining the location and properties of citizens. Speaking at the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the Paramount Chief of the Nsein Traditional Area, ...
Tension was high in Trans Mara, a town in Kenya on Sunday following the killings of six people in tribal clashes involving members of the Maasai and Kipsigis communities, police said. Trouble started on Saturday when a 40-year-old Maasai businessman was shot dead in Esoit trading centre during a robbery incident. A young boy was ...
A non-governmental organization, Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED GHANA), is looking for alternative ways to generate resources to support quality girl-child education in the Nanumba North District of the Northern Region. The organization which provides support in bursaries for girls from the basic to Senior High School level made this known at its annual general ...
Health Institutions have been tasked to revisit the practice of training more community nurses to visit various homes, work places and schools to promote preventive diseases as well as good environmental practices. Government has also been urged to empower these nurses with the needed resources so that they could discharge their community work effectively in ...
Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has advised that the ruling by the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea’s judgment on the maritime dispute between Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire should not destroy the ties between the two sovereign nations. “There is no winner or loser of this. We are all winners because we will ...
Former president John Mahama has lauded President Nana Akufo-Addo and the Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo for their “wise” decision to join forces with the former Attorney General under his administration, Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong in the just ended maritime dispute with Cote d’Ivoire. John Mahama, who initiated the legal proceedings against La Cote d’Ivoire in 2014 said ...
Ghanaians have been advised to celebrate in moderation the country’s victory at the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea in a maritime dispute case with Côte d’Ivoire. Security Analyst, Dr. Kwesi Anning who gave the caution on Saturday also admonished Ghanaians not to mock their Ivoirian counterpart in order not to create unnecessary tension between ...
The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has matriculated 5,785 regular students to pursue various undergraduate and postgraduate programmes for the 2017/2018 academic year. The number is less than half of a total of 12,240 applications the university received for both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Out of the number, 555 are pursuing various graduate programmes, with a ...
President Akufo-Addo met with the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres in New York last week to discuss developments on the continent. The meeting was on the side-lines of the 72nd United Nations General Assembly meeting in the US. The two leaders exchanged views on the situation in the Republic of Ghana and the sub-region and discussed ...
Professor Ebenezer Oduro Owusu, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana, on Saturday, urged fresh students to develop skills in critical thinking and be analytical, as they pursued courses towards their various fields of endeavour. He said the primary aim for their enrollment was to enable them to study and improve their knowledge base ...
Charles Bradley spent much of his life working odd jobs as a handyman – and some of it living on the streets, sleeping in subway cars in New York City. But he continued to pursue music, having been inspired by the singer James Brown during a performance he saw as a teenager. He was eventually ...
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