Bodies remain littered on the streets of a northern Nigerian town two days after it was seized by militant Islamists, a lawmaker has told the BBC. Boko Haram fighters were patrolling the streets of Bama, preventing people from burying the dead, Ahmed Zanna said. On Wednesday, the state government denied the town had fallen. Officials ...

More women are making a strong case for employers to provide a level playing ground when employing women. The calls follows the growing level of unemployed women as compared to men. Data from the Ghana Statistical Service shows, about 5.5percent of employable women are unemployed while a lower rate of 4.8 percent of men face ...

The National Service Secretariat (NSS) is asking would-be service personnel to exercise patience as it works to resolve some of the challenges encountered in this year’s postings. The Secretariat released the 2014/2015 service postings on Tuesday. Over 70,000 graduates have been deployed nationwide to undertake their national service as required by law. They have been ...

Ghana’s education system has been described as below international standards at all levels, a report by the World Economic Forum (WEF) has revealed. The WEF in its Global Competitiveness Report 2014-2015 assesses the competitiveness of 144 countries, said the country is not sufficiently harnessing new technologies for productivity enhancements (ICT adoption rates continue to be very ...

LAGOS, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Ecobank on Thursday said Qatar National Bank (QNB) had acquired a 12.5 percent stake in the African lender from Nigeria's government-owned "bad bank" AMCON.

Fresh from acquiring Nokia's handset business, Microsoft unveiled the first of its new range of Lumia smartphones on Thursday, priced to challenge a market dominated by volume leader Samsung and Apple Inc. A week before Apple is expected to launch its ...

Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Barack Obama NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, front left, speaks with U.S. President Barack Obama, front right, as they arrives for a group photo during a NATO summit on the grounds of the Celtic Manor Resort in ...

Scientists say they have 70% of the key bones needed to fully describe the creature, Dreadnoughtus schrani. It means they can confidently estimate its great bulk - a beast that measured 26m from head to tail and weighed in at almost 60 tonnes. Remarkably ...

The Ghana AIDS Commission has revealed that many HIV positive Ghanaians cannot be traced and counselled after testing positive due to poor addressing system in the country. This means the affected persons cannot continue treatment and could possibly spread the disease if they do not receive proper education on how to live meaningful lives after ...

The Ghana Institute of Engineers says it is struggling to effectively regulate engineering practice in Ghana due to the haphazard registration of contractors. This situation according to the institute thwarts their efforts in ensuring that contractors deliver projects according to set standards. The construction industry in Ghana has in recent times been heavily criticized for ...

GENEVA: India accounted for the highest estimated number of suicides in the world in 2012, according to a WHO report published in Thursday which found that one person commits suicide every 40 seconds globally. In the WHO South-East Asia Region, the ...

... • ECB cuts all main interest rates by 10 basis points • ECB announces programme to buy asset-backed securities (ABS) and covered bonds • Eurozone recovery in question as 'two-speed' divide emerges • AEP: Draghi cannot launch QE without German ...

Citi Business News investigations reveal the current fuel shortage in parts of the country may worsen in the coming days. An acute shortage of petrol and diesel hit some parts of the Greater Accra Region and other Regions early this week. A visit to some pump stations in Adabraka and the central business district of ...

A newly identified species of supermassive dinosaur might have been one of the largest creatures ever to walk on land, suggests a study published on 4 September in Scientific Reports1. Social sciences suffer from severe publication bias · Ebola virus ...

A doctor by profession, al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri was born in 1951 in a prosperous family in Cairo, Egypt. Rejecting his family fortune, at the age of 14, al-Zawahiri had joined the Muslim Brotherhood. Though, al-Zawahiri met Osama bin Laden in ...

The days of dark photographs lost because a camera's flash wasn't turned on could be over, thanks to a new feature from the latest Nokia device. The new Lumia camera's Dynamic Flash takes two almost simultaneous images, one with flash and the other ...

An image taken from YouTube shows what appears to be the first known Chinese jihadist, called Bo Wang, fighting with rebels in Syria. Credit via YouTube. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story. Continue reading the main story ...

DUBAI/LAGOS, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Qatar National Bank (QNB) , the Gulf's largest bank, said on Thursday it was buying a 12.5 percent stake in pan-African lender Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (Ecobank).