Some Economists have projected that Ghana will end this year with 6 percent economic growth, down from the government’s 6.3 percent target. According to an Economist for Global Markets at Stanbic Bank, Ayomide Mejabi, the projected growth will also be influenced by increased activities in the oil sector other than the increased business and consumer ...

President Akufo-Addo has been urged to lead efforts within the West African sub-region to develop the aviation industry. The President of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), Dr Olumuyiwa Bernard Aliu, made the appeal when he paid a courtesy call on the President at the Flagstaff House on Wednesday. According to Dr. Aliu, West Africa ...

The new Director General of the Ghana Maritime Authority, Kweku Owusu, has paid a day’s working visit to institutions and agencies that operate in the maritime industry in the Western Region. His maiden visit, since his appointment this year, was to familiarize with agencies under the authority’s watch and to have firsthand information on the ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo will not tolerate any foreign interference in the country’s electoral process, President Joseph Kabila has said. He told MPs in the capital, Kinshasa, that he will name an opposition prime minister within the next 48 hours to lead the country to the polls. He has been under pressure to salvage ...

A community empowerment group, AID Ghana, has made donations of various items including stationery, learning and teaching materials and toiletries to the Autism Awareness Care and Training (AACT), to mark this year’s Autism Awareness Month of April. Speaking at a brief ceremony to present the items, President of the group, Richmond Adu-Worae, called for more ...

The Ghana Police Service has given a one-week ultimatum to persons who have unlawfully installed sirens in their vehicles to dismantle them or face the law. According to the service, it has noted with concern the unauthorized use of sirens and horns by some motorists in the country. A statement signed by the Director of ...

Taxi drivers in the Ho Municipality have been schooled on soft skills to improve their customer relations to meet the growing demands in the tourism and hospitality industry. As one of the emerging cities in Ghana, the Volta Regional Capital is experiencing a corresponding growth in the tourism and hospitality sector. The Volta Region hosts ...

Employees of the National Insurance Commission (NIC), are demanding the immediate removal of their boss, Lydia Bawa. A three paged petition to the President signed by the employees, who described themselves as the Concerned Staff of the Commission, insisted that, Miss Lydia Bawa should be sacked to ensure that “she does not get away with ...

An Accra Circuit Court has struck out a suit against a man who allegedly declared that, former President John Mahama was going to drop dead during the 2016 Independence Day parade because of the apparent disinterest of prosecution. According to the Judge, Aboagye Tandoh, the prosecution in the case has on a number of occasions, failed ...

The Youth of Nkoranza in the Brong Ahafo Region, have reversed a curse they invoked on the Electoral Commission (EC) in the area, barring them from conducting the District Assembly Elections there. The area is without a functioning assembly following violent clashes and the failure of residents to partake in the last District Level elections conducted ...

A funeral was dramatically called off after the supposedly dead man was spotted drinking at a nearby bar as mourners arrived. The grave for Wilson Oluoch had been dug in his home village near Awendo in Migori county, western Kenya. Oluoch had gone missing three weeks previously and when a decomposed male body was found ...

Facebook is taking fresh action to prevent so-called revenge porn from being spread across its platforms. The social network is making it impossible to repost or share intimate images of people thought to have been uploaded without their permission once they have been identified as such and removed. The measure is being rolled out across ...

Speaker of Parliament, Rev Prof Aaron Mike Oquaye, has directed the appropriate parliamentary committees to carry out an investigation into the Kintampo Waterfalls disaster that recently claimed about nineteen (19) lives and injured others. The committee is expected to report on their investigation to the House by the end of the third week of this month ...

Citi Sports editor Nathan Quao writes to new Black Stars head coach Kwesi Appiah and he shares a few thoughts with Appiah on how Ghana can win again. Hello Mr. Kwesi Appiah, Congrats on your appointment (or re-appointment) as Black Stars coach. I wish you well in your new job. I am sure by now, ...

South Africa’s embattled president has been backed by a major decision-making body within the ruling ANC. It was looking at a complaint by some of the ANC top executives that Jacob Zuma had failed to consult them over reshuffling his cabinet. After considering the complaint, the ANC has decided not to press for Mr Zuma ...

Best Female Vocalist nominee in the 2017 Vodafone Ghana Music Awards (VGMA), Petrah, has stated what she will do if she wins her slot. The Manner Records singer took to social media to say that if she wins the Best Female Vocalist award, she will run home naked. “The #VGMAs is all over my mind. ...

The Ghana Water Company Limited’s (GWCL) efforts to work around the dire pollution brought on by illegal mining, is making its operations inefficient and less cost-effective. Very few of GWCL’s 90 systems for treating water for consumption have been spared by illegal mining, also known as galamsey, as its dire consequences spread across the country and beyond ...

German intelligence expert and author Erich Schmidt-Eenboom has said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, not the faith-based Gülen movement, was behind a failed coup attempt in Turkey on July 15, 2016 based on intelligence reports from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND). Speaking on a German public broadcaster ...

Some residents in Wa in the Upper West Region, have voiced out their displeasure with a police officer who made what has been described as insulting and ethnocentric comments against them, following their protests against a police shooting incident. Many feel the officer, Believe Amedzro, should be dismissed from the service for her disparaging remarks against ...

A research fellow at the Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Kojo Asante, has observed that illegal mining has become a norm in recent times because societies are aggrieved that a chunk of revenue generated from natural resources within their respective locations go to the central government. It has been said that, areas where natural resources ...