More than 1,900 deaths recorded in West Africa Ebola outbreak, says the World Health Organization - watch the story in 15 seconds.

British vacuum-makers Dyson have unveiled their first ever Roomba-style product: the robotic Dyson 360 Eye, which the company says is no gimmick but a “genuine labour-saving device”. The 360 Eye features tank-style tracks for fluid, continuous movement ...

MTN has reached an agreement in principle with specialist tower company IHS Holding to operate MTN’s 9 151 mobile network towers in Nigeria. The transaction is expected to reduce MTN Nigeria’s operating costs, drive network efficiencies and further expand MTN’s voice and data capacity, the South African mobile giant said in a statement on Thursday. ...

Global Solutions Limited (GSL) has appointed Olufemi Muraino as its new Regional Country Director to provide overall leadership and strategic direction towards growing the company’s market. He is also expected to ensure that GSL maintains strong partnership with its existing software and hardware partners as the company strives to strengthen deals with customers. The appointment follows the licensing and authorization of GSL to sell and install Nautilus Hyosung range of ATMs in the country. Global

Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen One of the flagbearer hopefuls of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, has brushed aside calls asking him to back out of the party’s presidential primary scheduled for October 18, 2014. Mr Kyerematen, who had 8.01per cent in the NPP’s last Sunday Special Delegates’ Congress, has insisted in a statement […]

The self-confessed witch carrying her spiritual pot, accompanied by Prophet Owusu Agyemang Prempeh A rare incident occurred at Akyem Ajobue in the Akyemmansa District of the Eastern Region last Friday when one Prophet Owusu Agyemang Prempeh cast out the demon of a 67-year-old self-confessed witch, Madam Abena Gyisiwaa, aka Alaba, before a large crowd. The […]

Cholera remains elusive and alarming, teasing officialdom beyond compare. Almost on the verge of an epidemic, officialdom is all but miniscule and ineffective in subduing it as the death toll mounts. One of our editorials last week was a lamentation over the killer disease, against the backdrop of so-called official response. We thought we could […]

SIX PEOPLE were killed and others seriously injured in a road accident yesterday involving a Mercedes Benz Sprinter bus from Winneba in the Central Region to Kumasi, the Ashanti Regional capital. The accident happened around 1:30 pm at a section of the Anwiankwanta-Assin-Fosu road—between Bogyawe and Sanfo-Aduam communities in the Bekwai Municipality—an eyewitness, Nana Poku […]

Justice Yaw Apau A Professor of Marine and Fishery Science at the University of Ghana has told the Judgement Debt Commission that the government cannot continue to overlook communities displaced by the floods in the Volta Basin area. Prof Patrick Kwabena Ofori Danso said the construction of the Akosombo Dam in the 1960s brought floods […]

FOUR SPIRITUALISTS in the Eastern Region who allegedly defrauded some unsuspecting persons of various sums of money totalling GH¢86,394.00 under the guise of multiplying their money for them, have been arrested by the police. They are Nana Yaw Sofehu, 32, aka Togbui Shetor, resident of Kukurantumi; Farouk Alhassan, 32, aka Okomfo Anokye Kitewa, resident of […]

Participants in a workshop have said sexual harassment should be curbed with swift and stiffer punishment to enable women to pursue their career goals. They mentioned profiling of women as expendable objects of men’s sexual desire resulting in their rampant harassment. According to them, sexual harrassment has deterred most women from participating in national development ...

The biggest gathering of movie industry players, the Ghana Movie Awards, comes off at the Accra International Conference Centre on December 30, 2014. This year’s event, the fifth in the series, seeks to take the event a notch higher as it brings the crème de la crème of Africa’s movie stars to celebrate with their ...

Dyson has unveiled its first automated vacuum cleaner, the 360 Eye, following 16 years of research and developmnent into robotics. James Dyson, CEO and founder of the UK firm, revealed the Dyson 360 Eye at a press event in Tokyo today, claiming the ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Nigerian authorities are monitoring nearly 400 people for signs of Ebola after they came in contact with a Port Harcourt doctor who died of the disease but hid the fact that he had been exposed, a senior Nigerian health official said on Thursday.

Charlie Weston and Ailish O'Hora. Published 04/09/2014 | 12:51. 0 Comments; Share. Expectations for further policy action at the European Central Bank's meeting tomorrow are running high after ECB President Mario Draghi pledged to use all available ...

Technology giant, Samsung has grown to become a consumer focused company that produces products to meet the needs and demands of a fast changing world.

Somalia’s government has offered an amnesty to fighters of Islamist group al-Shabab, amid uncertainty over whether its leader survived a US air strike. The militants would be reintegrated into society if they surrendered over the next 45 days, a statement said. The offer seems to be an attempt to exploit the vulnerability of al-Shabab following the air strike, analysts say. [...] The post Somalia Offers Islamists Amnesty appeared first on The Ghanaian Times.

India has issued a security alert in several states after an announcement by al-Qaeda of the formation of an Indian branch of the group. In a video message, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said "al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent" would "raise the flag of ...