Nigerian music star Burna Boy is this year’s winner of the Best International Act at the BET Awards. Burna Boy, real name is Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, was crowned the winner of the award for the third time in a row. Compatriot Wizkid and Diamond Platnumz of Tanzania were also vying for the prize. Burna Boy […]
It is five days to Christmas, the year is 1948, the world is recovering from the devastation of the second world war. In the city of Durban in South Africa, in a very close cricket match between the hosts and England, bowler Cliff Gladwin comes on to bat. With the last ball of the match, […]
Workers at the Pantang Hospital in the Adentan Municipality of the Greater Accra region are laying down their working tools effective today, June 28, over what they said is a worsening security within the hospital environment. Staff at the hospital for a period of time have been lamenting about the unlawful grabbing of lands belonging […]
Betway Ghana, over the weekend, organized a training workshop for volleyball and table tennis teams in the Eastern Region under the Betway Up programme, The workshop held in the Region’s capital Koforidua was attended by female and male volleyball community teams as well as table tennis teams, who went home fulfilled. The teams were sensitized […]
The ongoing conversation about fixing the systems in our country and the counterargument about fixing the attitudes of citizens could not come at a better time than now. Even though the nation stands divided on the issue, I believe this awakening of the citizenry is good for our own progress as a people, and I […]
Pressure group Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) has filed an official complaint with the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to begin investigations into circumstances that led to the judgement debt of $170 million awarded against Ghana in the cancelled power purchasing agreement with Ghana Power Generation Company (GPGC). […]
Minister for National Security, Albert Kan Dapaah, has charged the Ghana Boundary Commission, to initiate the establishment of a Joint Ghana-Togo Land Technical Committee to resolve all existing land boundary issues between the two West African States. The Ghana Boundary Commission in April 2021, begun an audit of the country’s land boundary with Togo to […]
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has become the first government official to be counted as the 2020 Population and Housing Census officially begins. Government Statistician Professor Samuel Kobina Annim led a team to the Presidential Villa of the Jubilee House on Monday, June 28 to conduct the exercise for the Number One gentleman of the […]
In the 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s was the year Ghana Football was interesting to Ghanaians and was always their first choice for any sport. Those Sunday afternoon experiences at Kaladan Park, the Gyandu Park, and not forgetting how exciting it was watching Bofoakwa Tano and BA United at the Sunyani Coronation Park – all […]
Staff of the Pantang Hospital have embarked on a demonstration to protest what they call “a threat to their security” over the encroachment of the hospital’s lands by private individuals. According to them, the encroachment of the land has brought land guards to the area which they say makes them insecure. They want the government […]
Cardi B pulled a Beyoncé at Sunday’s BET Awards – using her performance with Migos to reveal she’s expecting a second baby with her partner, Offset. The star took to the stage in a diamante-studded outfit, with a cut-out section for her baby bump. The big announcement was confirmed shortly afterwards with an Instagram post, simply […]
Back in high school, we had a notorious senior who was dreaded by all of my colleagues. Let’s call him Senior Bintu. Senior Bintu was in final year when we were only first year students. He was noted for doing exactly opposite what he preached. For instance, he insisted on us using our cutlery set […]
There was weeping and wailing at the residence of 40-year-old Joyce Amankwah who was killed when robbers shot into her store two weeks ago at Adedenkpo, a suburb of James Town. Family, sympathisers and well-wishers say they are yet to recover from the incident. The family last two weeks flee the community 24 hours after […]
The Government Statistician has admonished Ghanaians not to travel for the purpose of getting counted. Professor Samuel Kobina Annim said the system to undertake the exercise is so robust that everybody will be counted so far as they spend the night of June 27, 2021 through to Sunday, July 11 in Ghana. “In the last […]
Hearts of Oak got the job done on Sunday by overcoming their arch-rivals Asante Kotoko in the most important league meeting in over a decade. A second-half strike by revitalized attacker Daniel Afriyie Barnieh was enough to give the Phobians all three points at the Accra Sports Stadium. A day to the match, Barnieh was […]
Ashanti Region Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Kwame Zu says he will be shocked if President Nana Akufo-Addo renewed the Executive Instrument (E.I) to invoke the Imposition Restrictions Act to enforce the safety protocols on Covid-19. He adduced that the president cannot do this because he has sat at a function that the […]
Members of the Mobile Money Agents Association of Ghana (MMAAG) have announced in increase in cash out services effective, Thursday July 1. This means customers will now have to pay more for cash-out services than before. A statement issued Monday June 28 by the association appealed to customers to bear with them and comply. “To […]
The chiefs and queenmothers in Ellembelle in the Western Region have made a strong case on the need for the District Chief Executive Kwasi Bonzoh to be retained. They argue that the illustrious and passion-driven young man since he became the DCE has worked tirelessly to make the district a “citadel of development”. “Since his […]
Head of Commercial Banking at Stanbic Bank Abdul-Jaleel Hussein has advised Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (MSMEs) to develop good corporate governance practices if they want to gain the trust of their clients and suppliers. Abdul-Jaleel Hussein said this at a Webinar on Anti-Corruption and Anti-Money Laundering Policy in Ghana organized by the SBIncubator […]
Barely a month after its recommendation, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has removed Ghana from the list of high risk, third world countries with strategic deficiencies in anti-money laundering and countering of terrorism financing. This follows a review by FATF in February. The European Union (EU) had hinted of removing Ghana from the list […]
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