Paul Evans Aidoo ALL the 27 Municipal and District Chief Executives (MDCEs) in the Brong-Ahafo Region have attended a two-day orientation workshop in Sunyani, the regional capital. The capacity building workshop, organised by the Regional Coordinating Council, was to among other things, afford the chief executives the unique opportunity to discuss and devise innovative ways […]

Ghanaian youth star Fatau Mohammed could be bound for a spell on the sidelines after limping off while in action for Granada FC in the Spanish La Liga on Friday.

Dignitaries on the dais during the launch of the Ghana Property Awards Northern Sector 2014 in Kumasi THE CEO of Property Masters, a real estate development company, Nana Boadi-Suadwa, has bemoaned the rapid and escalating cost of building materials in the country. He said the frequent increases in the prices of materials such as cement, […]

Lavrov calls for fulfilment of Feb. 21 agreement on Ukraine, including constitutional reform, referendum for all regions; UN nuclear chief says measures agreed under Iran's nuclear deal with world powers are being implemented as planned; Oscar Pistorius ...

Ex-international Augustine Arhinful says the Black Stars will benefit immensely if John Mensah returns to first team football.

Nana Yaw Osei, ACCOG CEO The cost of In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) popularly referred to as ‘Artificial Insemination’ in Ghana has been significantly dropped from GH¢     9,000 to GH¢500. According to the Association of Childless Couples of Ghana (ACCOG), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) established in July 2012 to assist childless couples to have their own children, […]

President John Dramani Mahama has made the following changes in the posting of Regional Ministers. A statement from the Flagstaff House and signed by the Spokesperson to the President, Ben Dotsei Malor, said the Regional Ministers are to report to their new regions by the 15th of March, 2014. 1. Eric Opoku- Brong – Ahafo ...

South African Olympic and Paralympic running star Oscar Pistorius pleaded not guilty on Monday to a charge of murdering his model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, as his trial started in Pretoria. "Not guilty, My Lady," Pistorius answered when asked by Judge ...

Dare-devil robbers, on Sunday,desecrated a church as they shot two policemen dead at the Vine Branch Church, at Ibadan in Nigeria after their failed attempts to steal the church’s tithes and offering. Policemen were also said to have fired some fatal shots at one of the robbers who was reportedly taken  away by his gang ...

By Drazen Jorgic and Philippa Croome. KAMPALA (Reuters) - The author of Uganda's new anti-gay bill that imposes tough jail terms for homosexual acts said aid cuts imposed by disapproving Western donors were a price worth paying to protect the east ...

Seth Terkper, Finance Minister Donors have withheld direct budgetary support worth US$700million in the past two years in response to the government’s large spending overruns and the inability of some ministries to meet conditions for disbursement. The situation has increased pressure on the government’s domestic revenues, which have to be supplemented by more borrowing to plug […]

Available statistics from the Sunyani Municipal Health Directorate has revealed that ‘Hepatitis B’ killed 351 people in the municipality in 2013. Mr Kwasi Baba, a physician assistant and a peer educator, who disclosed this to the Ghana News Agency in an interview in Sunyani on Friday, said the deaths were made up of both males […]

Dear President Mahama,   I wasn’t going to write about your State of the Nation address until I heard one of your ministers describe it as “the most rousing motivational and inspirational speech that the country has ever heard from a Ghanaian President.”  Clearly none of your men will be truthful with you. That speech ...

Nairobi pastor Reverend Njohi has introduced a form of worship at his Lord’s Propeller Redemption Church in which female members of the congregation are banned from wearing underwear so God can enter their bodies easily. After a recent meeting of the church’s elders, to debate the matter Reverend Njohi passed an edict banning the wearing ...

Ghana midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng believes the international break has come at a wrong time for Schalke following a devastating week of huge defeats.

Oscar Pistorius South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has pleaded not guilty at the start of his trial for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Mr Pistorius shot Ms Steenkamp, 29, a model and reality TV star, at his home in Pretoria on 14 February 2013. State prosecutors allege the killing was premeditated, but he […]

Geneva: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov today under the shadow of a spiralling crisis in Ukraine, his spokeswoman said. The UN chief will have "a working lunch" with Lavrov on the sidelines of the ...