Another rainstorm disaster in the Savannah Region has rendered about 700 residents from three communities homeless with several properties worth thousands of cedis destroyed. The affected communities include, Yapei, Sangkpala and Kusawgu all in the Central Gonja District. According to Central Gonja District Operation Officer, Alhandu Alhassan, officials from the district office have been on […]

The Premier League has hit out at plans to create a European Super League, branding them anti-competitive and suggesting they undermine the integrity of the sport. It has been joined by UEFA in slamming the proposal, which they say threatens the very structure of the game. Previously, UEFA’s Swiss model for the Champions League had been […]

The Ghana Chamber of Bulk Oil Distributors (CBOD) has sworn into office an 11-member board to steer the affairs of the body over the next three years. The new executive board is made up of members with vast experience in finance, taxation, engineering, corporate governance, accounting, management, marketing and oil and gas. The CEO of […]

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has indicated that eight more Ghanaians have succumbed to the Covid-19 pandemic. According to GHS Director-General, Dr. Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, the country’s death toll now stands at 771. As of April 10, the number of persons reported dead were 763 with new and active cases at 84 and 1,413 respectively. But […]

Ghanaian journalist and politician, Madam Elizabeth Ohene has called on graduands of the Evangelical Presbyterian College of Education at Amedzofe to be dedicated to the teaching profession and deliver quality outcomes to children. She underscored the role of teachers in the transformational agenda of the country, which she said needed motivation. Mrs Ohene, who was […]

This forum is a recognition of the fact that we have a formidable political organisation which unfortunately has become lame. Assuming that you are running a race with a strong horse, the horse is lame

Motorists who ply the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR)-Kpone road are lamenting the poor state of the stretch which connects the Tema Harbour to Kpone. Roads Minister, Kwesi Amoako-Atta in August last year cut sod for the reconstruction of the roads in 24 months, but eight months on, the project is yet to take off. According […]

The Volta Regional Lands Commission has clarified that it has not sold public lands around Kabore School in Ho as being alleged by some residents.  According to the Chairperson of the Volta Regional Lands Commission Board, her outfit was compelled to reallocate lands around the school to persons who were issued lands around the residency […]

The Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Ghana, Ghana’s Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations and COCOBOD, have held the first multi-stakeholder roundtable on sustainable cocoa in Accra. A statement issued by the three institutions, copied to the Ghana News Agency, said social sustainability of Cocoa production was at the heart of the first […]

Today, host Samson Lardy Anyenini and his guest, Emmanuel Hovey Kporsu took a further look into the nitty-gritty of the Rent Control Law 1986 (PNDCL 138) which is still in force. PRO at Rent Control Department, Emmanuel Hovey Kporsu in an earlier interview on The Law weeks ago indicated that it is illegal to increase […]

The world is moving into a “Hydrogen economy” led by developed economies, and the pace looks quite fast. In most advanced countries that are looking for ways to recover from the economic damages wrecked by Covid-19, they are setting mid-to-long term plans with more detailed targets that includes hydrogen in several of their economy rebooting […]

The Ghana Mission in Washington DC and the Ghana Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, have donated $59,850 to the Ghana Covid-19 Private Sector Fund.

Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah earlier this week revealed that the government is engaging with relevant stakeholders to pass the broadcasting bill to check the content aired by media houses. Today, at a press briefing, the Minister informed Ghanaians on the progress made so far regarding the passage of the bill. Also, Director-General of the […]

Thousands of fans will return to Wembley Stadium for the first time in more than a year on Sunday as part of a coronavirus trial. The FA Cup semi-final between Leicester City and Southampton will see 4,000 supporters in the stands – a fraction of Wembley’s 90,000 capacity. Sunday’s game, alongside the World Snooker Championship […]

The Motor Transport and Traffic Directorate (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service will soon activate its automated traffic policing system designed to record violations on the roads and issue offending drivers with tickets. This move is intended to enhance enforcement of traffic regulations and help reduce accidents on the roads. Speaking on Newsfile Saturday, the […]

Victims of sexual and gender-based violence are often challenged when it comes to footing the bills for their medical reports. Such bills, costing between GH¢300 and GH¢1,000, are not covered under the National Health Insurance Scheme. The quest for justice in the prosecution of perpetrators is therefore impeded. Stakeholders in the fight against sexual and gender-based […]

Residents of Alipe and its environs in the Central Gonja District have threatened to build speed tables without government approval to reduce the rampant road deaths recorded in the Savannah Region. Their decision they say arises from the death of 12 persons during an accident involving a tipper truck and a Toyota minibus a week […]

The leadership of the Coalition of La Associations (COLA) has described as false reports by the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) indicating that the people of La demonstrated at Burma Camp in Accra on Thursday, April 15. “We wish to bring to the attention of the general public the facts of the matter as the GAF, […]

Balmain, Versace, Dior, and other luxury power players are finally getting into podcasts. Podcasting is finally in fashion. Not fashionable—fashion-adjacent personalities, as well as publications like the Business of Fashion and your very own GQ, have already made podcasts stylish. But for years, podcasting circled luxury fashion itself like a shark with a too-refined palette. Everyone else in the […]

A-72 -bed capacity transit quarters have been opened for Senior and Junior ratings of the Ghana Navy Stores Department in Takoradi in the Western Region.