The issue of hygiene and sanitation seems to have taken center stage at the Heroes Park in Kumasi where the New Patriotic Party (NPP), is today [Sunday] holding its extraordinary national delegates conference to consider various proposed amendments to the party’s Constitution. This comes at a time when fear has gripped some residents in the Ashanti ... The post NPP

A landslide caused by torrential rain has killed at least five people in southern Chile and has destroyed dozens of houses. Fifteen people are missing in the remote village of Villa Santa Lucía in the country’s lake region, popular with tourists. President Michelle Bachelet has declared a state of emergency in the area. Thousands remain ... The post Chile: Landslide destroys

A suicide bomb and gun attack on a Methodist church in Pakistan has killed at least five people, reports say. The attack happened in the city of Quetta, some 65km (40 miles) from the border with Afghanistan. More than a dozen people were also wounded after gunmen wearing explosive vests tried to enter the building. ... The post Deadly attack on Methodist church in Pakistan appeared first

Ghana’s Central Bank has constructed two-storey building for Tamale’s premier public English/Arabic school, Nuri Islam located at Warizyehi in the Tamale Metropolitan Area. The modern edifice has eight classrooms and other ancillary facilities such as a toilet, urinal,  a staff common room and an office for the headmistress. Professor Amin Alhassan, Dean of Agribusiness and ... The post BoG

The Ghana Police Service has explained that it arrested the Chairman of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Bernard Mornah because he disregarded their advice not to hold a planned march on Saturday. According to the Police, Mr. Mornah’s decision to hold the march against their advice could have occasioned a breach of peace and unlawful ... The post Mornah disregarded

The Employment Tribunal in the UK has unanimously dismissed the case involving a Ghanaian employee, Mark Arthur, and the Ghana International Bank PLC. The tribunal, presided over by Employment Judge Glennie, dismissed the two complaints of automatic unfair dismissal and failure to pay holiday pay on withdrawal against the bank. Among the reasons cited by ... The post Mark

A Kumasi-based private legal practitioner, Sulley Sambian, has ensured the freedom of a youth activist of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alhassan Sibdow Hafiz, by voluntarily paying a court fine of Ghc3,000 slapped on the convict. A Tamale Circuit Court on August 28, 2017 sentenced Alhassan Hafiz to a fine of 250 penalty units ... The post NPP activist freed from prison after

The chiefs and people of the Bia East and West districts in the Western Region on Friday, December 15, backed calls for the creation of the proposed Western North Region when the nine-member commission of enquiry held a public forum at Adabokrom to seek their views. The nine-member Commission of Enquiry led by retired Justice of ... The post Bia East and West districts back split

The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), will today [Sunday], hold an extraordinary national delegates conference to consider various proposed amendments to the party’s Constitution. The event to be held in Kumasi is a follow up to the Annual National Delegates Conference at Cape Coast in August this year, at which various proposals were made for ... The post NPP holds extraordinary

The Ministry of Trade and Industry has dissociated itself from reports suggesting that it charged expatriates between $100,000 to $25,000 dollars for seats close to the President at an awards ceremony. The Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak who made this allegation had indicated that the fees charged at the Ghana Expatriate Business Awards (GEBA) were ... The post Muntaka