Tributes have been paid to former Gabon international Moise Brou Apanga who died on Wednesday from a suspected heart attack. The 35-year-old collapsed during a training session with his Gabonese club FC 105 Libreville.

The Youth in Agona West Constituency in the Central Region have been advised to stop dragging the name of the Member of Parliament for the area, Mrs Cynthia Morrison, into the appointment of a municipal chief executive for the municipality. According to Mr Kofi Osei, the Constituency Organiser, the MP had no hand in the nomination of Justina Marigold Assan as the first woman MCE for the municipality since the commencement of the Fourth Republic

The National Chairman of the Convention People’s Party (OPP), Prof. Edmund Delle, has called on the rank and file of the party  to stamp out divisions within the Nkrumaists front. He said since the founder of the party, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, believed in unity and discipline, the  need to stamp out divisions in the party had become critical.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament has indicted the Ghana Health Service (GHS) for failing to pay more than GH¢61,000 being proceeds from the auction of nine vehicles into a non-tax revenue account since 2014 as required by the Financial Administration Act . The said amount was hurriedly paid into the account only last Monday after the PAC had served notice to the GHS to appear before it in respect of the disposal of government vehicles

Ghana risks being sanctioned by the International Secretariat of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) if the nation fails to address certain challenges that have been identified by the global institution. The challenges has to do with license registration in the extractive industry, state participation in the sector, and issues relating to production and export data.

The Klottey Korle MP Dr Zanetor Agyeman Rawlings has emphasised the need to have more women in government, indicating that “not all men seen in public office are that great and if we were to use the same standard by which men get appointed, a lot more women will get in”. For her, “there are a lot of qualified women” who can equally execute such tasks so society must give women enough opportunities to serve the country.

Ghana’s Communications Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful is vowing a thorough review of the country’s policies on telecommunications regulations and mobile financial services soon because they are outdated.

The Ashanti Regional Youth Organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Yaw Brogya Genfi, has petitioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), in his capacity as a citizen of Ghana, to investigate the recent $2.25 billion bond issued by the government of Ghana. Mr Genfi’s petition follows assertions by the Minority in Parliament that Mr Trevor G. Trefgarne, a director at Franklin Templeton, the institution that bought 95 per cent of

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has cut the sod for the commencement of construction of the 400-MegaWatt Bridge Power project, the world’s largest LPG-fired power plant. At the ground-breaking ceremony, at Tema, on Thursday, President Akufo-Addo noted that the $1 billion project is consistent with his government’s vision of making Ghana self-sufficient in electricity for industrial and domestic use, and to drive the country’s socio-economic development.

The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has responded to queries by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament on the $41 million bauxite export said to have not been captured in its audited report for 2015. According to the BoG, the proceeds from the export of bauxite in 2015 of US$41.05million was captured in the Statement of Foreign Exchange Receipts and Payments of the bank as part of non-traditional exports in the Schedule of Earnings of Dealer Commercial Banks in Table 17 of the first

London (CNN)UK police have foiled another suspected terror attack in London, arresting a man carrying knives near the British parliament.

  The Managing Director of the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL), Mr Kenneth Ashigbey has asked political parties to state their position on the fight against illegal mining (galamsey). According to him, “one way to curb galamsey is when our political leaders join hands to help fight it.”

Now you are into this new relationship.  You are happy to be in one. But now, you seem to have this concern whether you are too attached to your new partner.  Sure, you like being with each other. But there can also be such a thing as being too clingy. Doing so can be very detrimental to a relationship, especially if one is not comfortable with it.

After months of crushing on the man or woman of your dreams, you finally score a date.  You’re excited and thinking of where this could lead. Before you start planning your future, you’ll need to master a few basics.

Although some leading musicians such as Bisa Kdei, Kofi Kinaata, Shatta Wale and others are churning out well-composed hit tracks and keeping Ghanaian music scene bubbly, celebrated Highlife artiste Ofori Amponsah says a lot of the songs being released are lacking in quality and generally poor.

The United Nations Humanitarian Response Depot (UNHRD), says it was working closely with national and regional disaster management bodies across the globe to improve upon their capacities in responding to emergencies promptly and adequately. Currently, the UNHRD is supporting humanitarian efforts in North-east Nigeria, Yemen, Somalia and South Sudan where more than 20millon people facing threats of starvation and famine.

After the unprecedented success of Gospel artiste Joe Mettle at the recently held Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA), there have been calls on other artistes to venture into the genre to capitalise on the ‘windfall’.

The quest to attract more Foreign Direct Investment (FDIs) into the economy has brought up the need for the country to build a strong capacity in negotiating contracts that will protect the local interest.

The West Blue Consulting, the technical partners of the Ghana National Single Window (GNSW) project, is working feverishly with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to ensure that aircraft start using an electronic format called Cargo XML to submit their cargo data to customs before landing at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA), Accra.

The Money Lenders Association of Ghana has changed its name to Micro-Credit Association, Ghana (MCAG) with approval from the Bank of Ghana (BOG) to enable it to reposition the industry and serve its customers in an efficient and effective manner.