Northern Ireland face an uphill struggle to reach a first World Cup since 1986 after losing to Switzerland in controversial circumstances in the first leg of their play-off at Windsor Park. Ricardo Rodriguez scored with a penalty just before the hour mark after Corry Evans was deemed to have handled inside the area. Though that ...

A view on social media shared not by some uninformed luddite, but by one of the people responsible for building Facebook into the social media titan it is today. Sean Parker, Facebook’s founding president, unloaded his worries and criticisms of the network, saying he had no idea what he was doing at the time of ...

The UN mission in the Central African Republic (CAR) released rebel fighters accused of shooting a UN peacekeeper, confidential documents seen by the BBC show. The two men were handed back to their commander in 2015 despite injuring the UN peacekeeper – a war crime under international law. Because the incident happened shortly before crucial ...

The Functional Executive Committee (FEC) of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has warned members of the party seeking to contest for various offices in its upcoming polls in 2018, to desist from vilifying other potential candidates. The statement comes shortly after ten regional chairmen of the party endorsed the former President John Mahama for ...

Government has issued a stern warning to companies in the upstream petroleum sector who stopped working due to uncertainties over the ITLOS case to resume work or have their contracts terminated. According to the Deputy Minister of Energy, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, keeping oil blocks idle for long denies the country the needed funds for ...

Government has issued a stern warning to companies in the upstream petroleum sector who stopped working due to uncertainties over the ITLOS case to resume work or have their contracts terminated. According to the Deputy Minister of Energy, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, keeping oil blocks idle for long denies the country the needed funds for ...

The Ministry of Education has received clearance to employ over 22,000 education workers –both teaching and non-teaching staff. This comes after years of a temporary moratorium on employment in the education sector. The Minister of Education, Mathew Opoku Prempeh, who made the announcement of the floor of Parliament on Tuesday, said “the ministry has received ...

President Nana Akufo-Addo’s vow to transform Accra into the cleanest city in Africa has been called to question by his neighbors who live some 300 meters away from his Nima residence. The open drain linking Kawukudie through Paloma to Asylum Down has collapsed at Nima Residential, where De-youngsters International school is located. The lives of ...

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly’s Revenue subcommittee Chairman, Robert Kwame Dadzie, has emphasized the Assembly’s resolve to ensure sanity in the billboard advertising space by ensuring all advertisers have paid for permits. This follows reports of defaulting agencies resisting the AMA’s attempts to remove their billboards for non-payment. Mr. Dadzie on Eyewitness News stated that, “either they ...

About One Hundred and Fifty women in the Builsa South District of the Upper East Region, have received a one-week skills empowerment training under the Ghana Social Opportunities Project (GSOP), to enable them undertake quality processing of local products for both local consumption and export. The training, which is aimed at improving the livelihood of ...

The Happy Sunshine Company, producers of La Vonce tomato paste, has started operating again, though it is yet to receive all the needed documentation from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Residents at Korleman City, an estate at Kuntunse in the Ga West Municipality, have raised concerns about how the activities of the company is affecting them. ...

The Happy Sunshine Company, producers of La Vonce tomato paste, has started operating again, though it is yet to receive all the needed documentation from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Residents at Korleman City, an estate at Kuntunse in the Ga West Municipality, have raised concerns about how the activities of the company is affecting them. ...

All 10 regional chairmen of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) have asked former president John Mahama to embark on a ‘Thank you tour’ to appreciate party loyalists for their support during the December 2016 polls. They believe the tour, although belated, will help in the party’s reconciliatory and healing process. Following the NDC’s defeat ...

The Technical Economic Adviser to the Vice President, Dr. Gideon Boako, has slammed the Minority for their criticism of the recently issued energy sector bond, saying they had displayed “gross ignorance” with the statements they made. The managers of the bonds had sought to raise 6 billion cedis under two separate bonds, but accrued a ...

The Technical Economic Adviser to the Vice President, Dr. Gideon Boako, had slammed the Minority for their criticism of the issuance of the recent energy sector bond, claiming they had displayed ignorance with the statements they made. The managers of the bonds had sought to raise 6 billion cedis under two separate bonds, but accrued ...

Nurses of the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital in the Central Region have threatened to declare a strike and release all patients on admission if government retains the facility’s medical director, Dr Eugene Dordoye. According to the nurses, the gross disrespect shown by Dr. Dordoye to staff and mismanagement of the hospital is causing them ‘psychological and ...