Asamoah Gyan  Ghana captain Asamoah Gyan has been shortlisted by the Confederation of African Football for the 2013 Player of the Year Award. The Al Ain striker is one of 10 players who have been shortlisted following voting from members of the Technical & Development and the Media Committees from the initial list of nominees. […]

Kevin-Prince Boateng  Kevin-Prince Boateng wishes Ghana draw his country of birth Germany at the Group stage of the 2014 World Cup finals. The Berlin-born wants a repeat of what happened in South Africa 2010 when the two teams clashed in the group stage with Germany winning 1-0 in Rustenburg. It was an emotive clash for […]

Jose Mourinho Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho refused to dismiss Manchester United’s title chances despite the champions falling 12 points behind Arsenal. While Chelsea won 4-3 at Sunderland on a busy night of Premier League action, United lost 1-0 at home to David Moyes’s former club Everton. “It’s difficult but with Manchester United everything is possible,” […]

Abrantie Amakye Dede Come Friday December 13, the Accra International Conference Centre will experience one of the biggest concerts in Ghana for the year 2013 as Abrantie Amakye Dede, known as ‘Serious’ and Ghana’s dancehall act  Samini are billed to perform at an event dubbed ‘Black And White Concert’. The Black and White event is […]

African Footprint International alongside Nafsi Acrobats from Kenya will on Thursday December 12, open the Kiddafest at the National Theatre in Accra with music, acrobatics and aerial/tissue dancing. Sponsored by the Ghana Denmark Cultural Fund, the group, which comprises artistes from Denmark, is also scheduled to delight Ghanaian kids with a repeat performance on Friday […]

Okyeame Kwame and J. Martins Awards-winning Ghanaian artiste, Okyeame Kwame, who has carved a niche for himself in the Ghanaian music industry, will today December 6, launch his music video and website at the African Regent Hotel in Accra. The music video is meant to market and promote his song, ‘Try AnotherTime’, which is collaboration between him […]

Board Members of Ghana Post Company delivering the company’s 2012 annual report Ghana Post (GP) Company Limited recorded a total revenue of GH¢29.4 million in 2012 against GH¢26.7 million in 2011, representing an increase of 9.8 percent. Abdulai Abdul Rafiu, Managing Director of GP, who made this know while reading the company’s annual report in […]

Prof. Benjmin Nyarko, GEAC Director delivering lectures at the function The National Mango Farmers Union (NMFU) and Biotechnology and Nuclear Agriculture Research Institute of the Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) have called on government to support the fight against fruit flies in the country. The NMFU and the GAEC need about GH¢2 million to construct […]

The participants in a group photograph after the workshop. About 400 cocoa extension officers drawn from various parts of the country have undergone an extensive capacity building programme to enhance their skills in Kumasi, the Ashanti regional capital. The educative programme was funded by World Cocoa Foundation (WCF), with Solidaridad, an international development organization supporting […]

STAFF OF SMALL and Medium-scale Enterprises (SMEs) have begun a two-day workshop on workforce management in Accra. The workshop, which is being organized by the Sustainable Competitive and Responsible Enterprise (SCORE) project of the International Labour Organization (ILO), would provide practical training to help participants identify human resource challenges and evolve plans to transform their […]

Millicom Ghana (Tigo) Limited, a telecommunication operator in the country, has presented various prizes to its agents in the Eastern Region in a bid to motivate them. In all, 15 persons received items ranging from blenders to double decker refrigerators. At a short ceremony held last Friday at Koforidua, management of Tigo said the Internal […]

Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited (GGBL), producers of Ruut Extra Premium Beer, Ghana’s first cassava beer, has presented a sponsorship package of GH¢27,500.00 to the Ministry of Food and Agriculture on Wednesday 4th December, 2013 for this year’s National Farmers Day. Solange Kuimo, Marketing Manager of Innovation at GGBL, who gave the details of the package […]

Kwame Achampong-Kyei – Executive Chairman, GLICO Group For showing outstanding performance in the insurance industry, GLICO Group of companies, providers of insurance and financial services, has won Gold Award at the 6th edition of Ghana Business and Financial Services Excellence Awards Scheme held at the Coconut Groove Regency in Accra. The award was instituted under […]

Close to a hundred store owners at Labone Junction in Accra could not hold back their tears when they woke up Thursday morning  to realize that their stores have been demolished and the contents destroyed by armed men believed to be from the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) The store owners told DAILY GUIDE that officials […]

BUSTED! Prince Adongo and Abdul Rauf Yusif  TWO PEOPLE have been arrested by the police after investigating an armed robbery incident at the residence of Noble Chemist Manager at Old Ahinsan Estate in Kumasi. GH¢11, 100 worth of Samsung 46-inch flat screen television set, HTC mobile phone, Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and home theatre, Kente […]

Rashid Mahama aka Alhaji  A 20-YEAR-OLD man suspected to be involved in a drug cartel trade in the city of Kumasi has been arrested by the Asokwa District Police Command. The young man, known as Rashid Mahama aka Alhaji, was arrested by a police patrol team at Ahinsan, a suburb of Kumasi after a hot […]

Nana Conduah launching the festival Edina Bronya, which is celebrated by the chiefs and people of Elimina in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipality of the Central Region, will be celebrated in style as there is now peace and tranquillity in the area. The festival which is celebrated from the first Thursday to Sunday of January each […]

Ex-President John Agyekum Kufour Former President, John Agyekum Kufour has described the late Nelson Mandela as a man who exhibited high qualities of leadership which tends to be in short supply on the African continent.According to him, Nelson Mandela’s death marks the passing of a very rare and great human being.“I have to use the […]

Macabre twist of fate: The Duchess of Cambridge meets Nelson Mandela’s daughter Zindzi (right) at the Royal Premiere of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom in London shortly before she learned of her father’s death Nelson Mandela’s daughter was informed of her father’s death while watching the royal premiere of a film chronicling his incredible life, […]

Nelson Madiba Mandela Nelson Madiba Mandela, the first black president of South Africa, was confirmed dead on Thursday evening at age 95. South African President Jacob Zuma broke the news that Mandela had “departed” but was at peace. Zuma broke the news at a press conference beamed live to a global audience. “Our nation has […]