Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has won the US National Critics Book Prize for her novel Americanah. The writer’s work tells the story of a Nigerian woman who moves to the US to pursue a college education. In 2008, her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, won the UK’s Orange Prize and Purple Hibiscus ...

The Minority in Parliament says Ghana will lose $85 million dollars if a commercial agreement between the Government and Bouygues Bartiment International to expand the Ridge Hospital in Accra for $306 million goes ahead

LONDON: US secretary of state John Kerry will seek assurances from Russia at talks in London on Friday that it will not try to annex Crimea and will address concerns over Ukraine through negotiation, a senior state department official said. Kerry and Russian ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Islamic militants struck the northern city of Maiduguri Friday morning, attacking the main military barracks with gunfire and explosions, but the Ministry of Defence said it repelled the insurgents and inflicted "heavy casualties." Children ...

The ranking member of the Finance Committee of Parliament and New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Old Tafo, Dr Anthony Akoto Osei on Wednesday told Parliament that he had never called for the freeze of the Single Spine Pay Policy (SSPP) but rather it is the intention of government to suspend the […]

Fire gutted Shed Four of the Takoradi Port early Friday morning destroying some metal containers that contained oil waste from the oil rigs operating in the Jubilee Oilfield. The Director of Takoradi Port, Captain James Owusu Koranteng, told the Ghana News Agency in an interview that the fire did not cause any extensive damage to the facility. He said the fire was detected at 0420 hours and the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) Unit stationed at the port got to the scene at 0427 and put it out

German football legend Uli Hoeness said Friday he will not appeal a tax fraud jail sentence and resigned from his posts as president and board chairman of powerhouse club Bayern Munich. “Tax evasion was the mistake of my life,” the fallen football idol said in a personal statement. “I will face the consequences of this ...

Osei Yaw Nketsia aka Asemfofro A leading activist of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Osei Yaw Nketsia aka Asemfofro has ridiculed the promise by President John Mahama to implement the free SHS policy. Speaking to DAILY GUIDE, the man associated with the airwave defence of the NDC in the early days of late President Mills’ […]

WeChat is the second most popular social networking site in China. With 370 million users and a rapidly growing base, it may well be able overtake Weibo, which currently has a user base in excess of one-half billion people. However, the rise of social ...

MUNICH (Reuters) - Adidas (ADSGn.DE) boss Herbert Hainer will become the new president and business chairman of German soccer club Bayern Munich, after the resignation of Uli Hoeness, the club's supervisory board said on Friday. Uli Hoeness said on ...

A capacity-building and skills sharing workshop to discuss the Biosafety Law, the Plant Breeders bill and the Plant and Fertilizer Act (seed law) has taken place in Accra.

The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development, yesterday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with representatives from the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD) of Canada.

Hon. Haruna Iddrisu, Minister for Trade and Industry, has pledged the Ministry's preparedness to position the GRATIS Foundation to deliver its core mandate.

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has presented the National Distinction Awards to the best candidates in the 2013 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in Accra.

Members of Parliament yesterday concluded debate on the 2014 state of the nation's address delivered by President John Dramani Mahama after two weeks of heated arguments and interpretations from both sides of the House.

A Professor at the School of Communication, University of Ghana, Prof Audrey Gadzekpo has appealed to the media to exhibit utmost professionalism in their delivery.

LONDON – U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry and his Russian counterpart have launched a new round of talks to try to cool down the crisis over Moscow's de facto occupation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula and the secession referendum planned there ...

President John Dramani Mahama has said that businesses need a stable and predictable investment environment, especially in a time of economic uncertainty, to continue generating employment and creating wealth. This, he said, calls for broad discussion to encourage investment issues such as dispute settlement in international investment agreements; the rising importance of international investments by state-owned enterprises; and how public-private partnership including co-investment by host states