Ghanaian Sports Journalist with the Congo-based, Euronews-owned Africanews has been named by the Confederation of African Football as part of the panel of voting experts for the 2017 African Football of the Year Awards. In an announcement made Friday, CAF said it has expanded its electoral college for the decision making process. Bawuah and 19 […]

Parliament has approved a three year maximum jail term for discriminating against persons living with HIV/AIDS. This follows the passage of the Ghana AIDS Commission Bill, 2015 into law by the House on Tuesday 18 October. According to the new Act, a person who discriminates against a person infected with HIV/AIDS commits an offence and […]

Contrary to reports by the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), the Executive Secretary of the Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana, Duncan Amoah has insisted that search at the various fuel stations shows fuel prices have been increased. It will be recalled that reports went viral of the Chamber’s declaration of expected fuel price increase between 8 […]

The Cuban Ambassador to Ghana, His Excellency Pedro Luis Gonzalez, has called for an end to the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on Cuba by the United States. He said in spite of the normalization of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the USA, there remained several obstacles that prohibited free trade between Cuba and […]

Ghana’s two major political parties, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Partriotic Party (NPP) have taken their campaigns to the Volta and Ashanti regions respectively. Both Presidential candidates, John Dramani Mahama of the NDC and Nana Addo of the NPP are expected to speak to thousands of people on their vision for the […]

For 42 years, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi ruled Libya with an iron fist. Those were the years the music died; all non-Arabic music was banned, under threat of imprisonment, with western instruments burned in public squares across Libya. Stronger Than Bullets, an upcoming Al Jazeera documentary, explores the defiant music scene that emerged during the 2011 […]

Itz Tiffany has made public her view on celebrities endorsing political parties in the up coming 2016 elections. As Ghana is drawing close to the polls a lot of celebrities have disclosed their political affiliations, these celebrities are scatted among the various political parties but a chunk of them are routing for New Patriotic Party […]

Two hundred women of the Ada Songhor Salt Women’s Association (ASSWA) have held a mammoth demonstration and a media conference at Sege and in Accra concurrently to press home their demand for the collective ownership of the Ada Songhor Lagoon. The salt winners insist that the lagoon must be maintained as a communal resource open […]

Amid many speculations of a possible fall of the cedi in the third quarter of 2016, the domestic currency stood its grounds against the major trading currencies. The cedi recorded a marginal cumulative depreciation of 0.66% and 1.56% to the US dollar and euro respectively within the third quarter of 2016 (Q32016). However, the cedi […]

Addressing some of the party’s supporters at separate rallies held at Sumbrungu, Paga, Garu-Tempane and Pusiga in the Upper East Region, to launch the campaigns of the party’s parliamentary candidates, the General Secretary, said it is important for those who lost the primaries to support the winning parliamentary candidates and President John Dramani Mahama, the […]