The General German Automobile Club (ADAC) has been demanding stricter emissions rules for automobile manufacturers, the club announced Wednesday in a position paper for the upcoming elections in Germany. The ADAC is the biggest automobile club in Europe. The decision comes after the diesel emissions scandal. According to the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, diesel cars emit an […]

China’s new cyber security law, which will go into effect Thursday, is not aimed at limiting foreign companies’ access to the Chinese market, the country’s Internet regulator said Wednesday. The law is designed to safeguard China’s cyberspace sovereignty, national security, public interest, as well as the rights and interests of citizens, legal persons and other […]

In a move to make ICT part of the universal services in the Namibia, Deputy Minister of Information and Communication Technology, Stanley Simataa Namibia launched Telecom Namibia services in three constituencies of the Zambezi Region. The Deputy Minister in a statement on Wednesday said, “We want to provide equal opportunities to all Namibians, whether in […]

The Embassy of Sweden and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on Wednesday signed an 8 million U.S. dollars grant, giving a boost to the Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund (ZRBF) set up in 2016 to build the resilience of vulnerable people in the country. Addressing partners at the signing ceremony, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP […]

President Dankwa Akufo-Addo has disclosed that government would soon issue a 2.5 billion dollar bond to offset the legacy debts of the energy sector in order to create space for increased investment. The President said the decision was borne out of the need to address quickly Ghana’s energy supply constraints by tackling the financial challenges […]

Burkina Faso’s health official said Wednesday that 4,100 people died in 2015 alone as result of tobacco use in the country. Nicolas Meda, Burkina Faso’s Minister of Health, disclosed this citing a report from the World Health Organization (WHO) on the occasion of World No Tobacco Day celebration on Wednesday in Ouagadougou. He explained tobacco […]

Uganda, east Africa’s third largest economy is seeking Chinese expertise on industrialization to fast track its development. In less than one month, the country invited three Chinese experts to advise it on how to lead the country to industrialization based on China’s 30-year experience that has propelled it to the second biggest economy in the […]

Bright Addae XI would play a select side of Assin Fosu on June 11 at the Assin Fosu Town Park in the Eastern Region with a giant cup at stake. Bright Addae was a member of Ghana’s FIFA U-20 World Cup winning team in 2009 in Egypt and currently plays with Italian Serie B side […]

Dr Nii Kotei Dzani, Founder and President of Groupe Ideal, one of the fastest growing business groups in Ghana, will be honoured with the GUBA 2017 Black Star Influential Economist Award at the Intercontinental Hotel in London on Saturday the 3rd of June 2017. The Influential Economist Award recognises outstanding individuals with unique financial acumen who play a pivotal role in creating sustaining business models. The prestigious ‘GUBA […]

Civil servants across Africa are set to convene in June in Rwanda’s capital city of Kigali for a major Africa Union (AU) public service event, the Rwandan ministry of public service and labor said in a statement on Wednesday. According to the statement, Rwanda will host the 6th edition of the Africa Public Service Day […]

Life & Style has exclusively learned that when Scarlett Johansson and Saturday Night Live star Colin Jost were spotted kissing in front of cast and crew at the SNL season finale afterparty, it wasn’t just a random hookup. The pair were actually set up by Colin’s SNL co-star Kate McKinnon weeks earlier and had kept the romance hush-hush since then. “Scarlett and Kate McKinnon are […]

African countries have been urged to put in place measures to industrialize in order to break into the global market, the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) says. The ACET in a statement released here Wednesday ahead of a manufacturing meeting next month in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa says the continent has less formal […]

Four hardworking Shell service station staff, who excelled in their work in 2016, have been awarded an all-expenses paid trip to New York, USA to participate in this year’s Shell Global Smiling Stars Programme. The winners, who will be travelling with their spouses, are Mr George Ayensu Afful, the Country Retailer of the Year, Mr. […]

INTRODUCTION I have read, examined and analyzed the “Report of the Special Committee To Investigate The Bribery Allegation Made Against The Chairman And Some Members Of The Appointments Committee”, dated 29th March 2017 and signed by Hon. Joe Ghartey, Chairman, Special Committee, and Alhaji Ibrahim Gombilla, Clerk to the Committee. I have also followed the […]

The Premier League Board (PLB), has named six contenders for Nasco Player and Coach of the Month for May.      According to a statement issued by the communication department of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), Liberty Professionals’ stalwart defender Samuel Sarfo would face competition from Sam Adams of Dormaa based, Aduana Stars and Medeama’s […]

The Executive Committee of the Ghana Football Association (GFA), has congratulated Mr. Kwesi Nyantakyi on his appointed as the Vice President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF). At the Executive Committee meeting on Tuesday at the secretariat of the GFA, Mr. Nyantakyi was given a standing ovation by his compatriot for making the nation […]

The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has re-stated the government’s resolve to strictly adhere to public financial management and public procurement laws to ensure fiscal discipline. That decision by the government, he said, was against the backdrop that about 90 per cent of corruption within the public sector was procurement-related. “One can hazard a guess that […]

It has emerged that the Junior Military Officer, Captain Maxwell Mahama who met his untimely death after he was lynched in Boase, a mining community in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central Region, was a nephew of ex President John Mahama. The ex President is a brother to the deceased soldier’s father, Captain […]

The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Upper Denkyira West, Mr Daniel Appianin, has said that Captain Maxwell Mahama who was lynched on Monday at Denkyira-Obuasi in the Central Region, was part of some military personnel who were protecting Chinese small-scale illegal miners (galamsey) in a distant forest at Aminase. In a radio interview on Accra […]

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has officially submitted the names of 19 persons to Parliament to form his Cabinet in conformity with the country’s Constitution. The Minority in Parliament, for some time now, have raised issues over the delay by the President to present the names of his Cabinet ministers to the house. According to […]