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 […]
Mankessim, a commercial town in the Central Region, is noted for foodstuff, fish and meat. But for some time now, people from all walks of life have been trooping to the town not to shop for these items but to seek healing for various eye challenges, including blindness. This follows the discovery of a medicine […]
Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has failed to secure approval from the finance committee of parliament for an amount of 15.6 billion cedis for the banking sector clean-up. The additional amount, according to a memorandum to parliament from Mr Ofori-Atta on November 28, 2019, is to be used to “protect depositors of failed financial institutions and […]
Award-winning American female rapper Cardi B has rejected food she was served in her hotel in Nigeria some few minutes after she touched down today. The “I like it” hitmaker according to a video available is heard saying that she didn’t come to Nigeria to eat hotel food but rather wants to have a taste […]
