A new blood test for Alzheimer's disease has the potential to be more accessible to patients. By Shannon Firth March 10, 2014 Comments SHARE. Seniors now may be able to assess their risk for Alzheimer's disease with a simple blood test, thanks to new ...

The Food and Drug Authority (FDA) has asked the general public to disregard a video clip circulating on social media showing how sausages are produced from dirty, live pigs mixed with blood and faeces. The FDA described the said video as mischievous and that the video was deliberately doctored to misinform the public. Speaking to ...

The Minority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu is asking the  Member of Parliament (MP) for Nadowli/Kaleo, Alban Bagbin to provide evidence for  his bribery allegations against some legislators. Mr. Bagbin over the weekend alleged that there was evidence to show that some MPs take bribes to push the agenda of civil society groups ...

Atuabo Gas Processing Plant,Inset: Emmanuel Kofi Armah-Buah, Enery Minister Work on the Gas Processing Plant at Atuabo is expected to be completed by end of March, this year. The project, which started in the last quarter of 2011, will initially produce 120 million standard cubic feet of gas per day when completed. Emmanuel Kofi Armah-Buah, […]

Google is deploying "deep links" inside apps as a way to protect its $50 billion a year search empire from consumers' shift to mobile. Rolfe Winkler explains deep links on digits. Its name has become a verb meaning "to search," but as users shift to mobile ...

We dissed the rumours even though we secretly hoped there was some truth to them. And today, here it is, staring us in the face. India witnessed the launch of the Nokia X today, the 'unholy' union of Windows Phone and Android. In theory, this sounds like just ...

Melissa Satta threw a memorable private party for his Ghanaian superstar fiancé Kevin-Prince Boateng on the occasion of his 27th birthday.

Some of the workers at the premises of the company on saturday Angry workers of Schlumberger, an oil service provider located at Apremdo near Takoradi in the Western Region, staged a massive demonstration at the premises of the company on Friday over what they described as discrimination against Ghanaian workers by the expatriates. The Ghanaian […]

Haruna Iddrisu, Minister of Trade and Industry  Government says it is determined to increase the country’s exports from the current $2.3billion to $5 billion by 2017. Haruna Iddrisu, Minister of Trade and Industry, who made this known while addressing a National Forum on ‘Technical Regulations and Standards’ in Accra, said government had identified new market […]

Transport Sector delegation in Singapore A 15-member delegation from the Transport and Ports Sector, led by Deputy Minister for Transport Joyce Bawa-Mogtari, has undertaken a study tour of Singapore to learn best practices in the development of sustainable transport infrastructure. The week-long tour was organised by the Ghana Public Private Partnership (PPP) Programme as part […]

Kweku Rockson (right) unveiling the ‘Pen of Truth’ awards A new award programme to discover entrepreneurial skills in tertiary students has been launched at a ceremony in Accra. The programme dubbed, ‘Pen of Truth Awards’ is a Ghanaian educational TV Reality Show which would allow graduates from tertiary institutions to compete to reform their communities. […]

Plans are on course to set up a Low Income Consumer Support Unit (LICSU) at the Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL), to exclusively deal with unserved areas in the country. The LICSU is expected to ensure that newly developed and unserved urban settlements are piped and connected to the pipelines of GWCL. With the setting up of the office, the frustrations and bottlenecks associated with connection to GWCL’s pipelines, as well as access to potable water and the water company’s consumer base would

PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA—Oscar Pistorius broke down sobbing in court as a medical examiner described the gunshot wounds his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp suffered when he killed her in his home on Valentine's Day last year. The Paralympian gold ...

Amidaus Professionals’ goalkeeper Eric Ofori Antwi has blamed his team’s lack of concentration for the heavy defeat against Hearts of Oak on Sunday.

Mr. Akwasi Opong-Fosu, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, has bemoaned funding challenges as some of the constraints affecting the newly-created districts resulting in renting private apartments for official accommodation. He said renting of private properties comes at a cost to the country, and gave the assurance that construction work would begin in all the newly-created districts. Opong-Fosu said made the remarks in Tamale during a meeting with various heads of departments and

The decomposed body in the grave Elmina, a fishing community in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipality of the Central Region, was thrown into a state of mourning on Saturday when news broke out that the graves of some twins who were killed in a fatal accident at Antaado on December 30, 20113, had been tampered with […]