Dr. Kwesi Botchwey President John Mahama has selected former Finance Minister, Kwesi Botchwey to lead Ghana’s economic team that will hold talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on a bailout plan. The talks are expected to begin on Tuesday, September 16, 2014, and agreement reached by November, this year. Dr. Botchwey is the chairman of […]

One of the New Patriotic Party (NPP's) flagbearer hopeful, Francis Addai Nimo has told Citi News, his vision to lead the party in the 2016 presidential election has not changed. The NPP, as part of its constitutional requirements held a Super Delegates ...

One of the New Patriotic Party (NPP’s) flagbearer hopeful, Francis Addai Nimo has told Citi News, his vision to lead the party in the 2016 presidential election has not changed. The NPP, as part of its constitutional requirements held a Super Delegates Congress on August, 31, 2014 to prune the seven aspirants vying to lead ...

Dr. Kwabena Adjei Bertha Ntakie, a leading member of the Kwabena Adjei Campaign Team, says the 70-year-old chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is the best person to guide the ruling political party to retain power in 2016. She told Hello FM, a Kumasi-based radio station that experience was paramount in politics so the […]

Some of the bins NaWaBin, a solid waste management company, in collaboration with the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development on Saturday, has handed over a vehicle and waste bins to the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly. The Assembly would also distribute the bins to various Assemblies and communities in the Central Region in line […]

Cairo: US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Arab foreign ministers in Saudi Arabia Wednesday as he bids for a broad coalition against the Islamic State, a senior Egyptian foreign ministry official said. The talks in the Saudi port city of Jeddah, which will ...

A team of Ugandan doctors has successfully operated a three-month old boy who had been born with four legs and four arms.

Edmund Kyei  A Commission of inquiry needs to be set up to investigate President Mahama and his government over the massive corruption and rot in government, Edmund Kyei, the Asokwa Constituency Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in Kumasi, has disclosed. Speaking with DAILY GUIDE, the NPP man complained bitterly about how corruption […]

German-born Ghanaian defender Steffen Nkansah was in action for Germany's U19 side when they held England to a 1-1 stalemate in Oberhausen in an international friendly on Monday evening.

Kafui Dey (right) and Funny Face The newly-established radio station in Accra, Starr 103.5 FM, which has been on test transmission for a month yesterday officially commenced full programming. The urban lifestyle station focuses on the delivery of compelling programmes through good music, entertainment/lifestyle led talk programmes and sports for its target audience. Morning show […]

We need to admit the truth; Nigeria no longer has an army worth its salt. The Nigerian army of today is a pathetic shadow of its glorious past. This explains why it is proving grossly inadequate at checkmating a Boko Haram army of some 10,000 men.

BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) - A U.N. special envoy visited Libya's elected parliament in the eastern town of Tobruk on Monday in a show of support against a rival assembly set up by armed groups that seized the capital Tripoli last month.

African Union soldiers stationed in Somalia have raped and sexually exploited women and girls on their military bases, Human Rights Watch alleges in a new report.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon will send a 25-bed field hospital to Liberia to help provide medical care for health workers trying to contain the fast spreading Ebola virus that has killed 2,100 people in West Africa.

GENEVA/FREETOWN (Reuters) - Liberia, the country worst hit by West Africa's Ebola epidemic, should see thousands of new cases in coming weeks as the virus spreads exponentially, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Monday.