Romelu Lukaku announced his arrival at Old Trafford by scoring twice on his Premier League debut for Manchester United as they embarrassed West Ham. Jose Mourinho’s team were a constant threat against a poor Hammers side, offering excitement and encouragement to their supporters on the opening weekend of the new Premier League season. Lukaku, a ...

Four bodies have been retrieved from water body near a mining pit at Kwabeng in the Atiwa District of the Eastern Region. It is unclear how the four died, but a police report say they abandoned an excavator they were transporting to a mining site when they spotted the Operation Vanguard team tasked to stop ...

Mr Joseph Boahene Aidoo, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of COCOBOD, has said the West Africa Mills Company (WAMCO), a cocoa processing factory in the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis, will be restored by September, this year. “WAMCO had no cocoa beans which greatly affected work and, therefore, fell into coma. But we cannot allow this great asset ...

A former Member of Parliament for North Dayi, George Loh has taken a swipe at government for re-introducing the quota system for nursing trainee institutions. According to him, the reasons adduced by government for the re-introduction are wrong. The Akufo-Addo government on Wednesday announced the re-introduction of the quota system which was scrapped by the ...

Ride-services company Uber is facing a divided board of directors and angry shareholders after investor Benchmark Capital filed a lawsuit against the company’s ousted chief executive, Travis Kalanick, dealing another blow to the firm as it struggles to recover from a series of scandals and hire a new leader. On Friday morning, three Uber investors ...

It has emerged that about a high number traders at the Dome market in Accra screened were either suffering from hgh blood pressure or diabetes. Dr. Jarvis Abilla, a Medical Superintendent at the Ga South Municipal Hospital attributed the high rate to sedentary lifestyle of the traders at the market as well as their failure to ...

The newly inaugurated committee set up to investigate the off-spec products at the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST) has resolved to carry out its mandate with much enthusiasm. The nine-member committee is confident that its work will lead to a turnaround in the operations at the petroleum products distributing company. The Chairman of ...

Skipper Jonjo Shelvey was sent off for standing on Dele Alli as Newcastle’s return to the Premier League was ruined by Tottenham. Second-half goals from Alli and Ben Davies ultimately did for the promoted Magpies with the visitors coasting to a 2-0 victory, but it was Shelvey’s 49th-minute dismissal which opened the door after his side had scrapped their ...

The Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Bank, Osei Asafo Adjei has appealed to government not to rush with the implementation of the Treasury Single Account (TSA). According to him, the lack of adequate time to complete the phases of the implementation of the policy may collapse the banks that have huge government deposits. In ...

Vice Chancellor of the University for Development Studies, Professor Gabriel Ayum Teye has warned continuing students to abstain from plagiarism when writing their dissertation or term paper. He unequivocally served notice that the university would not hesitate to revoke the certificate of any students caught completely lifting academic materials for presentation as their theses. “I ...

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At least 64 children have died over six days at a government hospital in northern India that suffered oxygen shortages, officials said Saturday. Authorities have launched an inquiry into the causes of the oxygen disruption but denied reports that it had caused the deaths at the Baba Raghav Das Hospital in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh state. ...

Mr Rockson Bukari, the Upper East Regional Minister, has appealed to investors to partner with government to revive the defunct Pwalugu Tomato Factory in the Region, also known as the Northern Star Tomato Factory. The Minister made the call when a television crew from the Association of Public Broadcasting Corporations in Germany, led by their ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said his government has cleared GHc560 million out of GHc1.2 million debt piled by the previous administration in the health sector. “So far, government has, by dint of prudent management within the short space of seven months, cleared GH¢560 million out of the GH¢1.2 billion of debt inherited,” he ...

Dance hall artiste Samini went bonkers live on Takoradi-based Empire Radio recently. On the show, a lady called in and said she had met Samini at the National Theatre last year, exchanged contacts, planned meeting up but later Samini blocked her phone number. Befuddled by the statements, Samini asked who she was and whether he ...

Northern premier rural bank, Bonzali Rural Bank is gradually complementing government’s strive to reduce the nation’s soaring unemployment ratio. The bank has so far increased its staff ratio from 74 to 184 serving its eight branches across the Northern Region. This was revealed at a send-off party held in Tamale in honour of its former ...

The National Youth Organiser of the ruling New Patriotic Party, Sammi Awuku, has expressed confidence in the ability of President Akufo-Addo to deliver on the promise to provide jobs for the youth. But he wants the process expedited because, according to him, while the government cannot fail the youth who voted massively to return the ...

The government’s anti-illegal mining task-force, Operation Vanguard has been defending the reason why it set the equipment belonging to some illegal miners on fire. The taskforce has come under intense backlash for burning the excavators, instead of putting them to some purposeful use. But the Commanding Officer for Operation Vanguard, Colonel William Agyapong told Citi ...

The Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Elizabeth Afoley Quaye, has revealed that the Tema Oil Refinery has been ordered to work on weekends to produce more premix fuel for fishermen. A shortage of premix fuel hit the country in July this year, with some fishermen threatening to go on demonstrations over it. Afoley Quaye at ...

The newly inaugurated committee set up to investigate the off-spec products at the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST) has resolved to carry out its mandate with much enthusiasm. The nine-member committee is confident that its work will lead to a turnaround in the operations at the petroleum products distributing company. The Chairman of ...