Amnesty International, a non-governmental organization focused on human rights has called on Sudanese authorities to immediately release prominent human rights defender Dr Mudawi Ibrahim Adam and his colleague Hafiz Idris Eldoma. This call which was made on the eve of the pair’s trial also demanded a halt to the government’s misguided assault on dissenting voices […]

Mimecast Limited (NASDAQ: MIME), a leading email and data security company, today announced the most recent quarterly release of the Mimecast Email Security Risk Assessment (ESRA), a test which measures the effectiveness of email security systems currently in use by thousands of organizations globally. In its second quarterly assessment, Mimecast found that both known and unknown […]

          All along, we were given to believe that the real killer, or killers, of Major Maxwell Adam Mahama had been safely put under lock and key. Now, we are being told that the alleged prime suspect, Mr. Yaw Amankwa (aka Bulla), may, after all, still be on the run (See […]

Singer James Blunt wrote his breakthrough hit You’re Beautiful on a piano located in a bathroom at his late friend Carrie Fisher’s Hollywood home. The British musician struck up an unlikely friendship with the acting icon, and was invited to stay at her sprawling Hollywood Hills estate early on in his career, when he was […]

The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) says it expects at least a 3% drop in prices of petroleum products at the pumps by the end of this week. In a statement Tuesday, COPEC said with the world market prices of crude oil falling by some 6.122% — from $49 per barrel to current levels of […]

Two Ghanaian scientists have emerged winners in this year’s American Society of Mechanical Innovation Showcase contest. The innovation by Charles Ofori Antipem and Michael Afrifa won the hearts of panellists and other participants at the international engineering challenge. They entered the competition with a portable science lab in a form of a mathematical set to […]

Ghana has lost GH¢1 billion to falling cocoa prices in the last four months of the year, worsening the plight of the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), which is now coming to terms with a GH¢10 billion debt discovered recently. The debt, which is due to the rising cost in the past years, could combine with […]