At least 14 children were killed and dozens injured in a stampede at a primary school in Kenya when they were let out to go home. The pupils, mostly aged between 10 and 12, are said to have been crushed as they ran down a narrow staircase at Kakamega Primary School after lessons. One mother […]
The African Development Fund has approved a $34.74 million grant and loan to boost renewable energy access and promote an attractive investment climate in Liberia. At a signing ceremony on 29 January in Monrovia, Dr. Orison Amu, the African Development Bank’s (AfDB.org) Country Manager in Liberia, and Samuel Tweah Jr., Liberia’s Minister of Finance & […]
Fallout from the Airbus bribery scandal reverberated around the world as the head of one of its top buyers temporarily stood down and investigations were launched in countries aggrieved at being dragged into the increasingly political dispute. The European planemaker is bracing for a rocky period with airlines and foreign governments, some of which have […]
The Minister for Roads and Highways, Hon. Kwasi Amoako-Atta, has assured the people of Salaga, and, by extension, the people of the Savannah Region that the 138-kilometre Tamale-Salaga-Makango Road will be completed by the end of the year. Speaking at Kpalbe, in the Salaga North constituency of the Savannah Region, Hon. Kwasi Amoako-Atta, on Monday, […]
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Monday, 3rd February, 2020, on his tour of the Savannah Region, commended the Ghana Water Company Ltd for completing the rehabilitation of the Salaga water system project. It will be recalled that in 2017, during a tour of Salaga, which was then part of the […]
Investigative Journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni has described as untenable, suggestions that Ghana did not lose any money in the Airbus bribery scandal. According to him, assertions by Mr. Stan Dogbe, a former presidential staffer in the erstwhile John Mahama administration that Ghana did not lose any money in the Airbus transactions cannot be true. According […]
Veteran Ghanaian Actor, Kofi Adjorlolo has accused Ghanaian movie producers of impoverishing actors in the country. According to him, most movie producers owe himself and his colleagues in the industry and are refusing to pay them, even when they are aware that they (the actors) are poor and suffering. BestNewsGH.com can report an angry Mr. […]
African governments must foster innovation and provide hands-on education solutions to young people if the continent is to beat the challenges of the next decade and meet global development targets. “Reality on the ground and the statistics do not meet, they are on parallel lines. There’s more of cram work in our educational system than […]
“Youth must be prepared for the jobs of the future – not the jobs of the past,” African Development Bank President Akinwumi Adesina said on Thursday at the launch of the Bank’s flagship African Economic Outlook. “Given the fast pace of change, driven by the 4th industrial revolution – from artificial intelligence to robotics, machine learning, […]
About 290 students of the Buipe Senior High School in the Central Gonja District of the Savannah Region have been asked to go home after a fire outbreak on Monday morning razed part of the school’s girls’ dormitories. The incident started around 7 am when the students were in classrooms. The affected students who have […]
It is reported that some church members numbering about 20 have joined their ancestor in a bid to secure a holy oil from their pastor. This sad incident is said to have happened in Tanzania where the Pastor identified as Boniface Mwamposa aka ‘The Apostle’ and also the leader of Arise and Shine Ministry is […]
Member of Parliament for the Adentan Constituency, Yaw Buaben Asamoa has called on the Special Prosecutor, Martin Amidu, to publicly declare his stance on the Airbus bribery scandal. On January 31, 2020, Ghana was cited as one of five countries in which global aerospace group, Airbus SE, allegedly bribed or promised payments to senior officials in exchange […]
