British police on Monday released a picture of Manchester bomber Salman Abedi that showed him with a blue suitcase on the day of the suicide attack last week. The Greater Manchester Police are appealing for people who might have seen him carrying the blue suitcase between May 18 and 22. Police believe Abedi returned to […]

Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE) slowed down Monday losing momentum built last week as turnover and the benchmark 20 Share Index declined. The NSE 20 Share Index dropped 4 points to end the day at 3,438.20, down from 3,442.38 during Friday’s session. On the other hand, some 19.4 million shares worth 4.9 million U.S. dollars were […]

Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs introduced on Monday an app for travelers offering the most relevant consular information and aid in unforeseen situations. According to the ministry’s statement, the app named Travel Safely offers all necessary consular information offline, thus gives an opportunity to avoid a number of problems while travelling. “The ministry, as well […]

Facebook criticized the new German hate speech law, calling it “inappropriate” in their first official statement since the bill was drafted, the German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche reported Monday. In the statement, Facebook also revealed that “the state should not push its own failures and responsibility onto private companies”, and that the fight against fake news […]

The founder and Chief Executive Officer of Rigworld International Services, Dr Kofi Amoa-Abban is set to be awarded the GUBA Young Oil and Gas Entrepreneur Award by the Ghana-UK Based Achievement Awards (GUBA). The award is to recognise his excellent efforts as an outstanding entrepreneur who has built and developed reputable businesses within his sector. […]

Kenya would get cheaper credit if it floats an international bond currently following decline of its Eurobond yields at the secondary market. Market yields on Kenya’s Eurobond floated in 2014 have declined lower than its coupon rate, an indication that the country would get inexpensive debt should it float another bond, Cytonn, a Nairobi-based investment […]

The Chinese government on Sunday handed over about 420 boreholes to rural communities to help improve their access to clean water in Zambia’s Central province. The boreholes are part of 920 boreholes being sunk with the support of the Chinese government in 23 districts of Central and Luapula provinces. Minister of Water Development, Sanitation and […]

The African Union (AU) has hailed the achievements by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in different areas, including among others in promotion of regional integration. The sub-regional bloc on Monday held an event in connection with its 42nd anniversary on the premises of the AU Headquarters in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, under […]

Ghana will continue to cooperate with the United Nations to assist in maintaining world peace, a senior official said on Monday. Ambrose Dery, Minister for the Interior, said Ghana’s contributions to peacekeeping over the years demonstrated its commitment to peace and better future for those in the conflict-ridden parts of the world. He was speaking […]

President Jacob Zuma has survived the second attempt by his own party to have him removed as president, insiders report, following a failed debate within the ANC NEC to have him ousted. The ANC is expected to brief the media on Monday about the outcomes of the meeting, but recalling president Zuma is not going […]

The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in South Sudan and the head of the UN peacekeeping mission, David Shearer, has announced the arrival of Lieutenant General Frank Mushyo Kamanzi of Rwanda as Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). Lieutenant General Kamanzi commands a force with an authorized strength […]

The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Accra in partnership with the Ghana Netherlands Business and Culture Council (GNBCC) is organising a two-day education and career fair in the month of June 2017. Dubbed as the 2017 Dutch Education and Career Fair, it is scheduled to take place at the Mövenpick Ambassador Hotel in […]

On 24 May 2017, United States Ambassador Thomas F. Daughton handed over the first of eight water tanker trucks to NamWater, through the Ministry of Agriculture, Water & Forestry, as part of the U.S. government’s current drought assistance to Namibia. Following President Hage Geingob’s state of emergency declaration last year, these off-road (6×6) vehicles to […]

Dance Queen Africa (DQA), a contest created solely for young ladies to explore the significance of different types of contemporary dance forms primarily for entertainment and creative purpose, returns with Season 2 in September 2017. This was revealed by Mike Siaw, CEO of Digital Gate Production, the company producing the TV Show in partnership with […]

The First Lady, Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has performed the ceremony for construction work to start on a US$10 million Maternal and Baby Unit (MBU) block for the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH). The one storey building is meant to help ease the severe congestion at the main MBU of the referral facility. The project is […]

The First Lady, Mrs. Rebecca Akufo-Addo, has appealed to every well-meaning Ghanaian to find space to contribute towards improving maternal healthcare in the country. The state of things at many of the maternal health facilities, she noted, was not the best, making it difficult to efficiently deal with emerging challenges. She said this, if left […]

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) in partnership with the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has launched a Community Based Health Planning Services (CHPS) project known as “CHPS +” to improve primary healthcare in the Upper East Region. The project, valued at $9 Million US Dollars, would last for five years and was launched on the […]

While media companies dominate the list of top paid CEOs, leaders of tech companies aren’t far behind. Combined, the top 30 CEOs in tech made $662 million in 2016, according to a new report out from Equilar, an executive compensation data firm, in partnership with the New York Times. The study only looked at executives […]

The incident occurred on Monday dawn when the police officer detailed to protect him was reportedly absent. Some properties including laptops, important documents and an undisclosed amount of money were stolen, Accra-based Joy FM reports. The burglars were able to have access to the house after using a razor blade to cut the net covering […]

The case of the Delta 8 is clearly what in Italian-Mafia parlance may be aptly termed as “Cosa Nostra” or the internal, familial, affair of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP). But, predictably, it has become the pathological obsession of a post-election traumatized National Democratic Congress (NDC), obviously because the key NDC operatives believe they […]