The ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has donated various items and an undisclosed amount of cash to the family of the late Justice Adzakumah. The General Secretary of the NPP, Mr. John Boadu paid the family a visit on Sunday Morning and made the donation ahead of the Christmas and New Year celebrations. On hand […]
Vice-Chancellor of Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Prof. Ademola Tayo, has said the institution expelled the female student in the sex video that went viral to protect what the institution stands for. However, he said the institution was still in contact with the girl’s family and may take her back if she was repentant. Last month a […]
Young women and girls in Kibera, one of Africa’s largest informal settlements, are writing their street harassment experiences on roads and canvasses to highlight the damaging nature of sexual harassment. Warning: Some readers may find words part of this article distressing Zubeida Yusuf has lived in Kibera, in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, all her life, and […]
When my wife and I met nearly eight years ago, we had both recently graduated and were working long, late shifts in the service industry. She was co-managing a late-night bar and I worked in a celebrity chef restaurant where the only thing the celebrity contributed was his name. After a late shift I would […]
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has turned on the valves for the use of natural gas from the country’s gas fields, instead of Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO), on the 450-megawatt Karpowership for the generation of power. This follows the relocation of the Karpowership from its original location in Tema to the […]
All People’s Congress (APC) Founder and Leader, Hassan Ayariga seem to have taken the National Farmers Day Celebration a notch higher. The APC leader and founder in a strong endorsement of the campaign for the consumption of local rice had a mega local rice party with his family. In a farmers day message to Ghanaian […]
A Russian billionaire was killed in a road collision while walking his dog in England last week, it has been confirmed. Surrey Police released a statement on Thursday confirming that Dmitry Obretetskiy, 49, died on November 30, following an incident in Oxshott, a village near London, on November 25. Obretetskiy, the latest in a series of […]
President Yoweri Museveni led a march in efforts to stamp out corruption in public offices on Thursday. The Ugandan leader was accompanied by politicians, members of civil society organisations and religious leaders. Several people were forced to walk to work as they were caught unawares by the traffic restrictions. President Museveni pointed out that obesity […]
President Nana Akufo-Addo has granted executive approval for the expenditure of GHS15.6 billion to save the funds of depositors of the various financial institutions that have collapsed as well as shore up the liquidity of the financial sector. A letter addressed to the Minister of Finance, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, by the President’s Executive Secretary Nana […]
According to his family, he was surrounded by loved ones and passed away peacefully on Saturday. “It is with sorrow that the Bonnke Family would like to announce the passing of our beloved husband, father, and grandfather, Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke. He passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family, on December 7, 2019.” Bonnke preached to […]
The National Health Insurance Authority says it has exceeded the target for indigent registration for the year 2019. Clarifying an earlier publication, the Authority said the 2019 target of Indigent Registration includes pregnant women which was excluded from the figures projected by Deputy Director of Membership and Regional Operations at NHIA, Raymond Avinu. Mr. Avinu who was […]
The Speaker of Parliament, Mike Oquaye, on Tuesday summoned the ministers for Sanitation and Water Resources (MSWR) and Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) to answer questions regarding their delay in signing off-taker agreements with a number of waste management companies. These waste management companies are said to have invested over $1.5 billion in constructing […]
