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 […]

Mr Sulley Alhassan, the Nkoranza South Municipal Director of Education has commended the Department for International Development (DFID) and its partners for the implementation of the Ghana Adolescent Health Reproductive Project in the municipality. He said the project has empowered the youth in the area by enabling them to easily access information about sex and […]

It is damning to say but the truth is that eating fish in Ghana is more harmful now than good to our bodies.   Gone were the days when fish was consumed with the notion that one could get omega-3 fatty acids, which are essential nutrients that keep the heart and brain healthy. The two omega-3 […]

It is alleged that in the early morning hours of May 29, 2017, one Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama went jogging along a road in Denkyira-Obuasi, in the Upper Denkyira West District of the Central region. He belonged to the 5th Infantry Battalion (5BN) at Burma Camp in Accra but was stationed in Denkyira-Obuasi where he […]

Mr Samuel Atta Akyea, Minister of Works and Housing (WH), has inaugurated a 10-member Ministerial Advisory Body and five-member Audit Committee to address challenges in the Ministry. The Ministerial Advisory Body is made up of the Sector Minister, Mr Eugene Boakye Antwi, Deputy Minister of WH, Madam Freda Prempeh, Deputy Minister of WH, Mr Steve […]

Mr Rockson Dogbegah, the Construction sector chair for the Association of Ghana Industries, has commended the Ministry for Works and Housing for initiating steps to revamp the defunct Bank for Housing and Construction. Mr Dogbegah told the GNA that the move would help to reduce some of the challenges of finance within the housing and […]