Pakistan has warned it will retaliate if India takes military action against it after a militant attack on Indian forces in Indian-administered Kashmir. Prime Minister Imran Khan went on television to call on India to provide evidence to support its claims that Pakistan was involved. India responded that Mr Khan was again making excuses. More than 40 members of India’s [...] The post Pakistan
Military officers, researchers, national security experts and their European counterparts from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) are meeting in Accra to discuss and identify various levels of crises and develop plans to contain them. It comes in the wake of rise in terrorism, violent extremism and political vigilantism that has created severe security threats in the West Africa sub-region. [...] The post Experts
A joint national taskforce to oversee the export of petroleum products across Ghana’s borders has been inaugurated. The taskforce would also ensure export products were duly dispatched out of the country and in the appropriate order. The committee is one of several measures the NPA has put in place to address the menace of fuel smuggling in the petroleum sector [...] The post Taskforce
Former WBO super bantamweight champion, Isaac ‘Royal Storm’ Dogboe has begun preparation for his all important rematch against Mexican champion, Emanuel Navarette in the USA. The two will square it up again after Navarette neutralised the all-firing Dogboe to win a convincing Unanimous Decision victory over the Ghanaian. Two of the judges scored the bout 116-112 in favour of Navarette [...] The post Dogboe
Angolan mobile phone’s company, 7Mobile which is part of the TGI GROUP, has recently launched a new smartphone, “Swegue2” with a projection to start getting its footprint into other African markets, a release by the company has stated. The Swegue2 is a 4G phone smartphones and an upgraded version of its predecessor, providing a robust, reliable, and faster device, operated by a genuine Android [...] The post Angola’s
The Bureau of Ghana Languages (BGL) has expressed displeasure over Ghana’s inability to effectively implement the local language policy since independence. The Deputy Director of BGL, Mrs Benedicta Esi Anibri, in an interview with the Ghanaian Times, said “we are heading towards destruction and throwing ourselves back to colonialism if we continue throwing our language and identity away for foreign [...] The post BGL
The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) in Tema Region would on March 1 honour top performing tourist facilities for maintaining best standards in hospitality industry. Fifty-six tourist facilities have been nominated to win awards in 22 competitive areas while three institutions would also be given honorary awards for supporting the growth of the sector. The acting Tema Region Manager of GTA, [...] The post 56
Parliament has approved US$208million to finance the construction of 10 fishing landing sites along the country’s coastline. The identified sites are Elmina, Axim, Dixcove, Moree, Mumford, Winneba, Senya Beraku, Fetteh, Teshie and Ada, to ensure safe landing of artisanal fishing canoes, and create hygienic environments for the fishing communities. Mr Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, Minister of Transport, disclosed this in Accra [...] The post US$208m
The Greenwich Meridian Presbyterian Church in Tema Community One last Sunday launched its 60th anniversary celebration with a pledge to develop the tourism potential of the Greenwich Meridian line. The Minister in charge of the church, Reverend Ebenezer Akrong, who made the call, said the church had approached the Ghana Tourism Authority to assist it in developing the Greenwich Meridian [...] The post Greenwich
Ghana has expressed regret over the European Commission (EC) blacklisting the country among the list of countries with strategic deficiencies in their Anti- Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) framework. “The Commission’s blacklist of Ghana does not reflect the current status of the country’s AML/CFT regime, a statement issued by the Ministry of Finance”, copied the Ghanaian [...] The post Anti-
The First Lady Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has declared this year as “the Year of Reading” to whip up the culture of reading among Ghanaians. According to her, in a growing competitive world, life-long learning had become the only way to grow intellectually and build wealth of knowledge, “that can only be acquired through reading and we have no option as [...] The post 1st Lady declares
THE newly created Anloga District in the Volta Region was inaugurated yesterday amid pomp and pageantry, in defiance of a heavy downpour. The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in a speech read on his behalf by the Volta Regional, Dr Archibald Yao Letsa, said that the move was to bring governance to the door-steps of the people and facilitate decentralisation [...] The post • Members
The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, yesterday asked Ghanaians to fully embrace the decisive bold step to make the head of local governance directly elected by the people. He said the concept would guarantee greater efficiency, accountability, democracy and development from the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives. These were contained in a speech read on behalf of the President [...] The post At
The Vocational Training for Females (VTF), a non-governmental organisation promoting Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), has called on youths in the Upper-Manya Krobo District to choose technical and vocational related careers to reduce the unemployment rate. In collaboration with the Upper-Manya Krobo Municipal Education Directorate, VTF sensitised more than 2,000 parents, junior high school (JHS) pupils and teachers [...] The post VTF
The Otumfuo Charity Foundation, established by the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II to provide support for needy but brilliant students, has taken delivery of a large quantity of exercise books for distribution to 10,000 school children. The donation was made by Oheneba Poku Foundation, a corporate social responsibility management structure for Blaze Metal Resources, which has related initiatives across its [...] The post Otumfuo
MTN Ghana Limited has presented a set of science instruments to some basic schools within the Western and Central Regions to improve teaching and learning of science. “Practical learning, which has proven to be more empirical as against theory and skills acquisition in evidence based learning, is touted as the best form of learning and it is on that score [...] The post MTN
Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, the Minister of Inner City and Zongo Development, has encouraged young girls to explore their God-given potentials and pursue their vision in life in becoming software engineers and computer genius to make a difference in society. Addressing 60 girls selected from underprivileged communities in the Greater Accra Region at a bootcamp in Gomoa-Fetteh in the Central Region, [...] The post Explore
President Macky Sall is the strong favourite to win Senegal’s election on Sunday, boosted by a modernising first term that propelled economic growth although critics accuse him of jailing his rivals for political gain. Sall, 57, is facing only four contenders in the first round of voting – the smallest presidential field since 1988 – after two of Senegal’s best-known [...] The post Senegal’s
The United Nations (UN) peacekeepers in the Central African Republic (CAR) were “ineffective” in protecting civilians from attacks by armed groups in the town of Batangafo in October and November, a medical aid organisation has said in a new report. The medical charity, Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, said at least 15 people were killed and 29 others injured in the attack [...] The post ‘UN
INTERIOR Minister, Ambrose Dery, has sounded the alarm bell that Ghana could be “consumed” if vigilantism was not nipped in the bud immediately. Vigilantism, Mr Dery, MP for Nandom, said was a threat to the survival of the country and that a national discourse was needed to address same before it went out of control. “If we joke, it [vigilantism] [...] The post Interior
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