Australians have voted in favour of legalizing same-sex marriage in a historic non-binding poll. The vote showed 61.6% of people favour allowing same-sex couples to wed, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said. More than 12.7 million people – about 79.5% of eligible voters – took part in the eight-week postal survey. PM Malcolm Turnbull said ...
Parliament has passed the Office of the Special Prosecutor Bill after its third reading. The setting up of the office of the Special Prosecutor was one of the key campaign promises made by President Nana Akufo-Addo ahead of his election victory in 2016 and it is aimed at tackling corruption. When operational, the Special Prosecutor’s ...
A total of 3, 476 fresh students have been admitted into the Koforidua Technical University to pursue various Bachelor of Technology programmes and Higher National Diploma programmes for the 2017/18 academic year. This is the largest number of first years the University has admitted since its inception 20 years ago. Out of the over 5, 033 applicants ...
The Vice President, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, has cut sod for the establishment of a new cement factory in Ghana. The $30 million Ilam Cement factory will be located at Dawa Industrial City in Accra, and it is expected to be completed in two years. The factory also falls under the Akufo-Addo administration’s One-District-One-Factory programme. 90% ...
Billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is to invest $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund, a venture capital fund that brings together industry and government to seek treatments for the brain-wasting disease. The investment is not part of Gates’ philanthropic Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and will be followed with another $50 million in a ...
He is so respectful and disciplined that, at 6:00 am on 31st July, 1993, on the morning that his wife’s waters broke and he was driving on top speed to the hospital to have his first child, Ken stopped at the sight of a red traffic light even though no one was watching. What a ...
Tomorrow, Wednesday, November 15, Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta will present the annual second budget to be drawn up by the incumbent President Nana Akufo-Addo administration to Parliament. Since assuming office at the beginning of this year, the incumbent government has strived to achieve a balance between its avowed commitment to supply side, expansionary economic policy ...
Black Stars captain Asamoah Gyan has launched his own energy drink in the latest addition to his fast expanding business empire. The product named ‘Run’ hit the Ghanaian market on Tuesday and is set to boost the local production sector as it is made in Ghana. The announcement comes just a month after Gyan acquired ...
The Public Interest and Accountability Committee (PIAC), has lamented the poor handling of projects funded with Ghana’s oil revenue without adherence to the Petroleum Revenue Management Act. According to a member of PIAC, Dr. Steve Manteaw, successive governments have breached the Act for seven years running. The Act mandates the Finance Minister to report on ...
Ghana’s Chief Justice, Justice Sophia Akuffo, is proposing the use of portions of the District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF), for the establishment and refurbishment of dilapidated court structures to ensure the delivery of quality justice in the country. Her Lordship, who made the suggestion today, [Tuesday] in the Upper East Region during a three-day working ...
Following the closure of their facility at Kuntunse in the Ga West Municipality on Saturday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has now directed the Happy Sunshine Tomato Company managed by Chinese expatriates to relocate from the area. The EPA shut down the facility after a series of Citi News reports had revealed that the company ...
One thousand hectares of 6,000 hectares maize farm in the Central Region have been completely destroyed by fall armyworm. Mr. Richard Baffour Asare, the Central Regional Operations Director of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), announced this at a public forum organised by the Gomoa East District Office of NADMO at Gomoa Buduburam in the ...
One thousand hectares of 6,000 hectares maize farm in the Central Region have been completely destroyed by fall armyworm. Mr. Richard Baffour Asare, the Central Regional Operations Director of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), announced this at a public forum organised by the Gomoa East District Office of NADMO at Gomoa Buduburam in the ...
A few armoured vehicles have been seen on a main public road outside the city having left one of the country’s main military barracks, Inkomo. It is not clear where they were heading but they have not been seen on the streets of Harare. One of the vehicles had broken down on the side of ...
The safety of the UDS students over the last couple of years has been one that causes some fear and panic in the lives of students. The situation can’t be taken for granted. Robbery attacks on students usually end up with the students receiving cutlass wounds from their assailants. These young men who perpetrate these ...
Patrons of West Hills Mall will get busy, chasing cash in an exceptional month-long promo which mall management says, will turn the art of shopping into a memorable day-out experience for all shoppers. When the ‘Catch-the-cash’ campaign opens tomorrow, [Wednesday] November 15, patrons of Accra’s biggest and trendiest shopping destination will savour the excitement of a captivating ...
Donald Trump Jr has released private Twitter correspondence with anti-secrecy website Wikileaks after a US magazine revealed they had communicated shortly before his father’s election. The Atlantic magazine revealed the organisation had asked Mr Trump Jr for co-operation and information. The group published leaks of Clinton campaign emails during the election. Mr Trump Jr’s lawyers ...
The West African Alumni chapter of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), will hold its first Alumni Homecoming Conference from Thursday 23rd November 2017 to Sunday 26th November 2017. The conference is themed “The Role of the Youth in Socio-Economic and Political Transformation in Africa.” The conference, which is being convened at the Ghana Institute ...
US regulators have approved the first pill that can be digitally tracked through the body. The Abilify MyCite aripiprazole tablets – for treating schizophrenia and manic episodes – have an ingestible sensor embedded inside them that records that the medication has been taken. A patch worn by the patient transmits this information to their smartphone. ...
Black Stars new boy Kasim Nuhu has revealed that he looks up to former Ghana international Sammy Kuffour. Kuffour has had a stellar career at both club and international level, winning the UEFA Champions League with Bayern Munich in 2001. In his hay days, he was regarded as one of the very best defenders in ...
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