Traditional taxi drivers in two of Ghana’s robust economic capitals, Accra and Tamale, capital of the Northern Region, face an identical challenge, which may soon see them driven into extinction. This challenge is not about the plateauing cost of fuel or the rising costs of spare parts, but the emergence of stiff unanticipated competition, which ...

Imagine that you pay to see a concert at the National Theatre; the show begins, the excitement heightens but you are literally burnt in sweat because the air conditioners at the auditorium are faulty. Last Saturday at Becca’s anniversary concert, patrons had to endure strong heat at the National Theatre, a situation that has persisted ...

The Ministry of Roads and Highways has ordered the removal of all roundabouts on the KNUST to Ejisu stretch in Kumasi by the end of 2017. The roundabouts, numbering four, will be replaced by signalized intersections. This decision, according to the sector Minister, Kwasi Amoakoh-Atta, follows reports of the inconvenience and accidents caused by the ...

Ghana’s national women’s team, the Black Queens, suffered a huge thumping at the hands of the French women’s team, Les Bleues, on Monday in an international friendly played at the Stade Auguste-Delaune in Reims. The match was to help the two teams prepare for various assignments: the Women’s AFCON in Ghana in 2018 and the ...

Some commuters who rely on rail transport are beginning to feel the impact after a train headed from Tema to Accra, derailed at Tesano in Accra. About five passengers on board the train got injured and were rushed to the hospital after the accident. Four of them were treated and discharged, with the other still on ...

The Minister for Railways Development, Joe Ghartey, has constituted a 3-member committee to look into circumstances that led to the derailment of an Accra-bound train from Tema on Monday morning. The committee, which is being chaired by the Deputy Railways Minister, Kwaku Agyenim-Boateng, is to complete work and present their report in 10 days, that ...

Google’s new flagship smartphones have been hit by complaints about the quality of the screen. Tech reviewers, who have had the device for about two weeks, noticed “burn in” on the display, while others noted “muddy” discolouration on the screen. Google said it was investigating the issue, which it took “very seriously”. Google’s new line, ...

China’s Communist Party has voted to enshrine Xi Jinping’s ideology in its constitution, elevating him to the same level as founder Mao Zedong. The unanimous vote to incorporate “Xi Jinping Thought” happened at the end of the Communist Party congress, China’s most important political meeting. Mr Xi has steadily increased his grip on power since ...

Ivory seizures around the world hit record levels last year, with elephant poaching in Africa declining for a fifth year in a row, a report says. About 40 tonnes of trafficked ivory was recovered, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) report says. While poaching killed 111,000 African elephants over the last decade, ...

A pro New Patriotic Party (NPP) group, calling itself Burma Camp Youth, has defended its decision to blatantly close down the Northern Regional office of the School Feeding Programme in Tamale. Chairman of the group, Kamel Yusif, explained that their protest was necessary due to what they describe as challenges bedeviling the school feeding programme ...

Residents in Tamale may have good reason to question the competence of police in the Northern Region given that it only heard about the widely reported raid on the Northern Regional Secretariat of the School Feeding Programme Office by a New Patriotic Party-affiliated group only about two days ago. The group, calling itself the Burma Camp Youth, ...