British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the Russian intervention in Ukraine was the biggest crisis in Europe so far this century. Hague said that Russia now had operational control of Ukraine's Crimea region and that while Russia had the legal right to ...

NAIROBI, KENYA: Kiambu's Alliance High School has been ranked number one in the 2013 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education with a mean grade of A (minus). The school also produced the country's top candidate (Tom Kingori Wanderi) in the overall ...

Ghana's Muslim female national team players can now play matches for the country in hijabs after FIFA gave a final go-ahead to allow players to wear religious head coverings during games

SEVEN seagulls strayed into Newlands Stadium soon after a squall ended play an hour before tea on the second day of the third Test between South Africa and Australia yesterday. By then, Table Mountain had disappeared behind a wall of cloud and rain.

Four persons died in an accident at Savietula, on the Dabala-Keta road last Saturday. The accident occurred when a Sprinter Mercedes bus with registration number GE4346, heading towards Accra from Keta in the Volta Region burst a tyre, somersaulted several times and fell into a ditch. Three of the victims, according to reports, died on the spot, while the other died while being conveyed to the Keta Government Hospital. The Anloga District Police Commander, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP)

The Ministry of Energy and Petroleum intends to distribute for free 50,000 cylinders and cook stoves to the country’s ten districts. The distribution forms part of the Rural Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) Promotion programme that is targetting rural areas with low access to LPG. The programme, which started last year, has so far distributed 1,500 pieces of cylinders and cook stoves to selected districts as a pilot project. To facilitate the programme and ensure that beneficiary districts have constant

The Sekondi-Takoradi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (STCCI) is to organise a “Ghana Extractive Industry Safety Conference (GEISC 2014)” in October this year in Takoradi. The conference has the central objective of identifying new trends, standards, innovations, risks and opportunities in health and safety in the extractive industry. It will be on the theme “Driving industrial excellence through health and safety” -- an assessment of health and safety issues and their impact on emerging

The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI) is currently developing a scheme to attract investment in clear-cut areas of the economy and position the country to leverage its comparative advantage within the West African sub-region, Nii Lante Vanderpuye, Deputy Minister, has disclosed. “We must be able as a country to leverage our comparative advantage within the West African sub-region to draw investors in certain clear-cut areas of the economy. For instance, Ghana has a huge potential to manufacture

Chief Executive of IBM, Virginia Rometty, says the American Multinational technology and consulting corporation sees Africa as a huge growth opportunity over the next decade. Speaking at the Mobile World Congress, Ms Rometty said what sets Africa apart from other markets is its infrastructure, which was built with mobile in mind. Payments and communications are already built on top of a booming phone market; and incomes continue to rise, driving demand for better gadgets and services, she added. The

Chief Executive of IBM, Virginia Rometty, says the American Multinational technology and consulting corporation sees Africa as a huge growth opportunity over the next decade. Speaking at the Mobile World Congress, Ms Rometty said what sets Africa apart from other markets is its infrastructure, which was built with mobile in mind. Payments and communications are already built on top of a booming phone market; and incomes continue to rise, driving demand for better gadgets and services, she added. The

Nollywood superstar, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, isn't one given to emotional outbursts, especially where her bread is buttered.

Ghana striker Jordan Ayew grabbed the headlines by scoring his first goal for Sochaux; Kwadwo Asamoah starred for Juventus. Read more....

Montenegro began training at the on Sunday with 14 players to face Ghana on Wednesday in an international friendly.