Legal practitioner Charles William Zwennes has been appointed new Chairman of the Board of HFC Bank Ghana.

Reports emerging from Nigeria's Federal Government say President Muhammadu Buhari is to operate from home hence.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says threats by some illegal miners to vote him out in the 2020 elections will not dissuade him in his anti-galamsey fight. According to him, he is more concerned about national development issues and not elections.

West Africa Football Academy maintained their lead at the top of the Ghana Premier League standings after defeating Liberty Professionals 2-1 today at the Sogakope Park.  The win, WAFA's seventh consecutive victory on the bounce was secured courtesy a brace by Komlan Agbégniadan at the Sogakope Park on Wednesday afternoon. Liberty skipper Samuel Sarfo scored a late consolation for the visitors.

The US military's top commander in the Pacific has said an advanced missile defence system in South Korea aims bring North Korean leader Kim Jong-un "to his senses, not to his knees". Adm Harry Harris, head of US Pacific Command, told Congress the US would be ready "with the best technology" to defeat any North Korean missile threat. The US has also deployed warships and a submarine to the Korean peninsula.

The cedi outperformed the U.S dollar and the euro but depreciated versus the British pound at the close of trading in the week ending April 21. It recorded a 1.13 per cent appreciation against the U.S. dollar as investors languished over weaker-than-expected economic data in the world’s largest economy.

Only 34 women representing about 16 percent made it to list of 212 District Chief Executive (DCE) nominees by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

A 36-year-old man, Abdul Salam, has been arrested by the Asankrangwa Police for murdering his six-year-old son for rituals. The suspect was alleged to have severed the head and left legs of the boy in what could be described as a ritual murder.

A business man, Bismark Kyeremateng, is in the grips of the police in the Ashanti Region for allegedly importing and distributing fake electricity meters. Kyeremateng is said to have been in the business for the past two years was arrested at his office at Kronom, a suburb of Kumasi.

The Ghana National Gas Company (Ghana Gas), says it has renewed a Project Implementation Agreement with the conglomerate, Yantai Jereh Oilfield Services Group Co. for engineering and survey studies on the proposed 278 kilometre onshore natural gas transmission pipeline from Aboadze to Tema.

Ghana’s Black Stars could face financial challenges following the Parliament of Ghana’s rejection of a budgetary allocation by the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) to cover the company’s annual sponsorship of the senior national football team. The situation leaves the Ghana Football Association (GFA) in a dilemma as GNPC since 2013 has been the Stars’  Headline Sponsor who paid the national coach’s salary and also supported some activities of the team.

Incoming Black Stars coach, James Kwasi Appiah has held closed-door talks with President Nana Akufo-Addo. The meeting precedes Appiah's official announcement as coach of the senior national team.

Holding a diplomatic passport facilitates easy travel as compared to an ordinary passport. In many countries, it is issued strictly to members of government [executive], diplomats and in some cases members of parliament. In Ghana, Section (6) of the Passport and Travel Certificate Act, 1953, talks about the Minister issuing diplomatic passports to members of government who are proceeding on official government business.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has released the list of all 212 Municipal and District Chief Executives. Announcing the appointments on Wednesday, the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, Hajia Alima Mahama said the appointees are expected to be approved by the Assemblies in the coming days and weeks to complete the process.

The two-year-old boy who became an international sensation after he was found chain smoking in a remote village has kicked the habit, lost weight and is now the 'champion' of his primary school. Aldi Rizal shot to fame in 2010 after he was discovered in a poor village in Sumatra, Indonesia, puffing 40 cigarettes a day while riding his tricycle.

A Screen Printer who collected GH¢8,000 from a reverend minister under the pretext of enlisting him into the Ghana Police Service or the Ghana Armed Forces but failed has been convicted to a fine of GH¢3, 600. Henry Kwashie in default would serve nine months in prison. The court further ordered him to refund the complainant’s GH¢8,000 to him.

The Speaker of Parliament, Prof Aaron Mike Oquaye has confirmed the involvement of three sitting Members of Parliament (MP) and a former MP in alleged visa fraud using their diplomatic passports. The MPs are said to have used their diplomatic passports to secure visas for some “relatives” to travel to the UK but who did not return per their visa conditions..

Former All Africa Games doubles gold medalist, Wisdom Na-Adrago, survived a scare to progress to the next stage of the ongoing McDan West African Open tennis competition after a hard-fought 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 victory over Benin's Theophile Sedogo. The clash between Na-Adrago, who won gold at the 2015 AAG in Congo Brazzaville and his Beninois opponent lasted a gruelling two hours and 25 minutes under the scorching sun at the Accra Sports Stadium.

The Kumasi Police last Monday arrested two suspected armed robbers believed to be members of a gang terrorising small-scale miners in and around Obuasi and Manso Watreso in the Ashanti Region. The suspects are Kwaku Asare and Daniel Kwadwo Asamoah, both 30. 

IT and Telecommunications solution provider, Subah Infosolutions Ghana Limited, has been adjudged the “Best Revenue Assurance, Fraud & Traffic Monitoring Solution” provider at the just-ended 4th Annual Africa Telecoms Fraud, Revenue Assurance and Risk Management Forum in Kenya.  The Director of Subah Infosolutions, Mr Redeemer Kwame, accompanied by the Business Development and Marketing Manager, Mr Emmanuel Hudson-Odoi, and the Revenue Assurance Manager Mr Felix Steve Quaicoe,