The Good Shepherd Assemblies of God Church in Accra has donated items worth GH?7,000 to the Ga West Municipal Hospital and orphans at the Joy Hill School at Amasaman. The items included provisions, bags of rice, toiletries, soft drinks, reading books, second hand clothing, and foot wears among others. Presenting the items, Reverend Kennedy Akondo, Senior Pastor of Good Shepherd [...] The post Good
The 40th anniversary of the Valley View University (VVU) was launched in Accra on Friday. It had the theme; “Celebrating 40 years of Value-Based Higher Education in Ghana.” The celebration which would begin in January, next year, involved lectures, social tours, religious and women empowerment programmes, honouring of pioneers, entrepreneurship and Adventists professionals. Other programmes planned for the celebration include [...] The post Valley
The Ga West Municipal Director of Education, Samuel Narh Kudji has admonished parents to see themselves as major stakeholders in the education of their children. “To build an inheritance for your child, you should see yourself as a major shareholder in your child’s education at all, because the time you allocate each day for your child is the valuable inheritance [...] The post ‘Parents
Alban Bagbin, a presidential aspirant of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has commended party supporters, faithful and members who participated in the party’s ninth Delegates Congress in Accra. He further commended them for their patience, tolerance and endurance, for staying through the event which began on Saturday and ended on Sunday night. “My comrades in arms, it is with this [...] The post Bagbin
A Political Science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr Seidu Mahama Alidu, has observed that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) should focus on building consensus rather than achieving absolute unity towards the 2020 general election. He explained that despite unity as an important factor, the existence of diverse opinions and traits would make it difficult to achieve that [...] The post Build
The Executive Director of Media Foundation for West Africa, Sulemana Braimah, has observed that challenges and hindrances to the development of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies are as a result of misconceptions speculated by the citizenry. According to him, “the lingering conception is some Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives use the common fund from government meant for developmental projects [...] The post ‘Apathy
Dr Tony Aidoo, Ghana’s former Ambassador to the Netherlands in the Mahama-led administration, has admonished all political parties, including his own, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), to disband all their vigilante groups. He observed that the two main political parties, the NDC and the New Patriotic Party (NPP), cannot keep vigilante groups in their fold since it does not foster [...] The post Outlaw
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has voted for the establishment of a Special National Conference which will be the platform for the party to discuss and amend proposals to the party’s constitution. Currently, discussions of proposed constitutional amendments are done at the party’s National Delegates Congress which is also used to elect national executive members, which critics say, have [...] The post NDC
The Overlord of Mamprugu Traditional Area in the Northern Region, Nayiri Bohagu Abdulai Sheriga has stated that the creation of the proposed North East Region will reduce poverty and accelerate development in the area. “I am in full support of the creation of the North East region because all of us are Ghanaians and we must support something that will [...] The post Overlord of Mamprugu
The Japanese government has provided a five million dollar grant to Ghana to support interventions at reducing malnutrition across the country. The funds targeted at addressing the canker in the Northern and Ashanti regions is expected to reach out to about 600,000 Ghanaians to improve their nutritional needs by end of 2020. It will also complement ongoing nutrition programmes by [...] The post 600,000
The oyster harvest closed season was on Tuesday officially declared at the Tsokomey landing site in the Ga South Municipality in the Greater Accra Region at a brief ceremony attended by the traditional authorities and officials from the Fisheries Commission and the assembly The traditional authorities led by Nii Fartse Ako, the OditseWe of Bukum, performed the customary rites [...] The post Oyster
About 90 key stakeholders in the economic and diplomacy sectors of the country will next week converge on Accra to deliberate on how diplomacy could propel economic growth. They are from agencies under the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ministry of Trade and Industry and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). Scheduled for November 28th and [...] The post Stakeholders
Three separate committees have been set up to investigate the circumstances that led to the disappearance of a remand prisoner on November 3, 2018. The three committees were set up by the Ministry of the Interior, Ashanti Regional Security Council (REGSEC) and the Regional Prisons tasked to find out how the inmate disappeared and prevention of future occurrence. Suspect, whose [...] The post C’ttees
The national female U-17 team the Black Maidens of Ghana will face Mexico on Sunday in their quarter final fixture of the ongoing FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in Uruguay The Maidens booked the fixture after defeating The Young Football Ferns of New Zealand 2-0 in their last group game played on Tuesday to end the group campaign with the maximum nine [...] The post Maidens Coach confident
Bashiru Hayford, Coach of the national female football team, the Black Queens has played down on pressure on him and his team in a bid to qualify from the group stage of the ongoing African Women Cup (AWCON) 2018. The Black Queens of Ghana lost 1-2 to their Malian counterparts in the second Group A game at the Accra Sports [...] The post No pressure on Queens to qualify – Hayford
Kumasi Asante Kotoko has launched the 2018-19 CAF Confederation Cup competition with a call on their fans to support the club. Executive Board Chairman, Mr Kwame Kyei, who made the call indicated their readiness and determination to go for the ultimate, but said “we need the supporters to achieve this; fact is, without you we cannot go far or achieve [...] The post Kotoko launch Confed. Cup campaign
Defending champions Nigeria revived their 2018 Africa Women Cup of Nations campaign with an easy 4-0 win over Zambia yesterday in Cape Coast. The Super Falcons lost their opening match to South Africa and faced an embarrassing elimination from the tournament. They made a bright start moving forward and operating from the left flank with Francisca Ordega in-charge but [...] The post Nigeria revives
Arsenal head of football Raul Sanllehi has admitted that forward Danny Welbeck’s long-term injury could force the Premier League club to recruit in the January transfer window. Welbeck, often used as a backup striker by manager Unai Emery, underwent two operations after suffering a broken ankle against Sporting Lisbon in the Europa League earlier this month. While Sanllehi agreed that [...] The post Welbeck
Venus Williams has settled a lawsuit with the family of a 78-year-old man killed in a Florida car crash she was involved in last year. According to Palm Beach court records, the wrongful death case was closed last Friday, though terms of the agreement between the tennis star and the estate of Jerome Barson were not included. Barson was the [...] The post Venus settles lawsuit after fatal
Paris Saint-Germain have injury worries over Kylian Mbappe and Neymar ahead of their Champions League match against Liverpool next week. Both players limped off playing for their countries eight days before the clash in Paris on November 28. Neymar left the pitch after eight minutes of Brazil’s friendly with Cameroon in Milton Keynes on Tuesday night with an apparent groin [...] The post Mbappe,
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