The Ghana Investment Fund for Electronic Communications (GIFEC) has been awarded the 2017 World Champion in ICT applications. GIFEC was adjudged the winner in the E-environment category following its 112 public emergency response project it exhibited at the World Summit Information Society (WSIS) Forum held in Geneva, Switzerland. The four-day event lasted from June 12 […]

A woman was Friday night shot dead in a gunmen’s attack against a bar at Maramvya in Burambi district in Rumonge province, some 90 km south of the Burundian capital Bujumbura, the police spokesman said Saturday. “The attack by unknown gunmen against the bar happened around 20:30 (18:30 GMT). They shot dead a woman before […]

A total of 58 people who were in the Grenfell Tower on the night of the fire were missing and presumed to be dead, London police Commander said Saturday. This included the 30 already confirmed dead, according to Commander Stuart Cundy. “This number 58 may change. I really hope it won’t, but it may increase,” […]

Ecobank has secured shareholders’ approval to raise $400 million in its convertible bonds to restructure its operations and strengthen the group’s capital position. This was secured at the Annual General Meeting and Extraordinary General Meeting held in Lome, Togo of the parent company of Ecobank group, Ecobank Transnational Incorporated. The convertible bond issue will have […]

The Bible Society of Ghana (BSG) has donated quantities of Hebrew and Greek New Testament Bibles to the Global Theological Seminary (GTS) to augment the teaching and learning of the Biblical languages in the seminary. Reverend Dr. Erasmus Odonkor, General Secretary of the Society, made the presentation after he led a delegation from his outfit […]

Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) have appealed to government and relevant stakeholders in education to “immediately” make funds available to implement the inclusive education policy. Mr Brandford Tay, Member, Steering Committee of Coalition of NGOs for Disabilities in Volta Region, said it was not enough for government to formulate the policy and challenged it to demonstrate […]

MTN Ghana, as part of its 21 days Y’ello Care Programme, has donated over 200 reading and text books to the Kwashiman Cluster of schools in Accra. The books, which comprises of various subject reading books, novels, dictionaries, among others were to provide the children a variety of areas to read around and help develop […]

Amazon announced Friday that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery store chain, for 42 U.S. dollars per share, in an all-cash deal valued approximately at 13.7 billion U.S. dollars. Following the announcement, shares of Whole Foods spiked over 27 percent, while shares of the e-commerce giant rallied 3 percent. The deal is expected […]

Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl died at his home in Germany’s Ludwigshafen on Friday at the age of 87, according to German local media Focus Online. Kohl served as German chancellor between 1982 and 1998 and is well known as the “chancellor of unity,” for his active political plan bringing west and east Germany together. […]

The Turkish Coastguard (TUR CG) received in Antalya two search and rescue vessels. The vessels are part of a EUR 20 million agreement between the European Union and the UN Migration Agency (IOM). The Turkish Government responded to the increase in irregular migration by rescuing, since the beginning of 2015, nearly 135,000 migrants and refugees as […]

IOM Rome spokesperson Flavio Di Giacomo reported that when IOM last released figures (13 June), over 3,000 migrants arrived in Italy after having been rescued since last weekend. He said new rescues took place on Thursday and were continuing Friday morning, although details of these operations were still not available to IOM teams on the […]

Cocoa farmers at Timeabu in the Ejisu-Juabeng Municipality of the Ashanti Region are cutting down trees on their farms, impeding efforts to tackle climate change effects on cocoa production. The practice is thwarting government’s Tree on the Farm’ initiative meant to address the impact of climate change on agriculture. Goal 13 of the Sustainable Development […]

The London Metropolitan Police rejected an application to demonstrate at Westminster by Ghana ‘s opposition party the NDC on the grounds that the individual who applied for the permit one Freddy Al who claimed to be the party’s youth organiser was a registered sex offender. The  source  who is a member of the NDC UK […]

On 17 May, a team from the UK’s 7th Infantry Brigade (The Desert Rats) arrived in Ghana eager to participate in Ex UNITED ACCORD. This was an excellent opportunity for the UK military team, drawn from the element of the British Army responsible for cooperation with Ghana and her West African neighbours. The UK’s soldiers […]

The Global Amnesty Watch, an international humanitarian organization has endorsed the report of the Special Board of Inquiry (SBOI), which investigated the alleged war crimes man by the Nigerian Army personnel in the fight against insurgency in the North East and Internal Security Operations in the South Eastern part of the country. Earlier, the Nigerian […]

Currently, Ghana has a social housing problem with a deficit of 1.7 million units, according to the Works and Housing Ministry. The Sector Minister, Hon Samuel Atta Kyea said this at the commissioning of Erduk Company Limited, a private-owned construction and property management firm, at Ejisu in the Ashanti Region on Wednesday, June 14, 2017. […]

Ghana’s leading telecommunications service provider,MTN Ghana , has embarked on another gallant initiative dubbed: “Reading Clinic” in the country. This laudable initiative forms part of MTN Ghana’s 21 Days of Y’ello care Employees Volunteer challenge. The annual event in its tenth year is always held in the month of June as one of the interventions […]

Samantha Boateng, a 17 year old student of William and Mary College in the United States, is here again to build a second library at Asuodei, a village one hour away from Kumasi in the Ashanti Region. This new library’s location holds a special place in the heart of Samantha Boateng because 50 years ago […]

The Department of Home Affairs and United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNHCR) have announced that they will jointly commemorate World Refugee Day in eThekwini Municipality to promote social cohesion, tolerance and peaceful co-existence among refugees, asylum-seekers and host communities. World Refugee Day celebrations kick-off with build-up events on Sunday 18 June at Inanda J.L. […]

Nigeria’s troubled economy will record tremendous improvement by the third quarter of the year, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has predicted. The Director of Banking Supervision of CBN, Mr Ahmed Abdullahi,  told newsmen that the prediction was  the outcome of the 333rd Bankers’ Committee meeting in Lagos. According to him, this is because the […]