Bir Lahmer (Tunisia) (AFP) - Thousands attended the funeral Tuesday of a protester killed during clashes in southern Tunisia as officials warned tensions could escalate amid demonstrations over social and labour issues. Anouar Sakrafi, in his early 20s, died of wounds suffered Monday when he was run over by a national guard vehicle during clashe ...

Celebrate Africa Day by watching THE LUCKY SPECIALS on TV3 on May 25 at 3 p.m. An African film for African audiences, this new feature-length film from the producers of the widely-acclaimed movie “Inside Story” follows a guitarist and his friends on their journey to create a new musical sound and catapult their small-time band […]

Experts at the International Telecoms Week conference in Chicago have highlighted the need to accelerate investment in Africa to facilitate the continent’s broadband data explosion. Based on the theme “Achieving A Connected Continent: Leading The Data Explosion Across Africa”, the expertpanel session with participation from Google, Facebook, WIOCC, Liquid Telecom and Angola Cables discussed strategies […]

OccupyGhana® is happy to learn that the charges filed in court in the case of Republic v. En Huang & 4 Others, where the accused persons are alleged to have been engaged in illegal mining in Ghana, have been amended and fresh charges brought, this time under the provisions of the Minerals & Mining Act. […]

Government has finally given financial clearance to about 495 members of the Coalition of Unposted Allied Health professionals. The group had spent Monday night at the Health Ministry sleeping on...

Industry must help prepare workers for job market Dr Princess Asie Ocansey, the Founder of SOS LBOUR Ghana Limited, has urged stakeholders in the labour market to actively contribute to preparing workers for the job market and causing a positive attitudinal change in them. Speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting on the SOS Jobs4Women Summit and […]

Rome (AFP) - Migrants rescued off the Libyan coast have described discovering a shipwrecked dinghy at sea, saying dozens of people including children were lost to the waves, the UNHCR and IOM said Tuesday. The migrants, interviewed by the UN refugee agency and International Organization for Migration on Monday, said they had set off from Sabrata ...

Stocks were little changed in trading on Tuesday after the White House rolled out their massive budget for the federal government.

Polish cavalry did not, in fact, charge Nazi tanks in the early days of the war.

An Apple application for an experimental license to use new wireless technology, called millimeter wave, was signed on Tuesday and made public by the FCC.

Anaesthesia doctors and nurses at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) have received intensive training in respiratory therapy for efficient management and treatment of respiratory and other pulmonary diseases. They were exposed to professional skills they needed to properly manage respiratory problems at the intensive care unit of the referral facility to reduce deaths. The […]

Phone tracker exposes robber A member of a robbery gang that attacked and robbed students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) of their money, phones and television set, has been seized and detained by the police. Mallam Sulemana, together with three other persons on the run – Kojo, Abass and Akwasi, […]

By Kodjo Adams/ Theophania Dzadza, GNA   Accra, May 23, GNA - Mrs Abiola Bawuah, the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Dire

A Fetish priestess has run into trouble with the law for allegedly operating a brothel at Barekese in the Atwima-Nwabiagya District. Nana Ama Serwaah, popularly known as ‘Asuo Abena Komfo’, was arrested based upon a tip-off. Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Ken Yeboah, the Ashanti Regional Commander, told journalists in Kumasi that the priestess was […]

Though to many the concept and pleasure of sex can not be over emphasized there still exist untold and unknown mysteries behind sex. These mysteries are hardly talked about or discussed in the various faith circle because to some topics are not pleasing and encouraging, However it is very important one gets a clear and […]

The Gambia’s former ruler Yahya Jammeh stole at least $50m from the state, the country’s justice minister said on Monday, in the first major anti-corruption move by the country’s new president. It’s the first time the new government of the west African country has put a figure on the amount it believes Jammeh plundered from ...

Accra, May 23, GNA - Two Ghanaians are among the 117 who would posthumously receive the Dag HammarsKjold Medal at the United Nations Headquarters.MR Antonio Gutteres, Secretary General of the United would perform a wreathlaying ceremony to commemorate the heroes who served the world with their hearts.

The Group Chief Executive of CDH Financial Holdings Limited, Emmanuel Adu-Sarkodee, on Tuesday said Ghana must strategise and tap into the immense economic potentials of sports for the benefit of Ghanaians. He said sports is a tool and a vital catalyst for economic and social growth for every nation, adding that, countries that realised the […]