The Board Chairman of the World Trade Centre (WTC), Accra, Togbe Afede XIV, will be leading a delegation of prominent business professionals on a trade and investment mission to Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo in Brazil from March 29 to April 3, this year. The visit is to encourage trade missions and other companies ...

President John Dramani Mahama has disclosed that education had been and will continue to be the priority of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government. In pursuance of that, he said government will continue to spend a chunk of its budgetary allocation on school infrastructure to make students of all educational levels comfortable. President Mahama announced ...

The African Parliamentary Network has described as confusing, the appeal thrown to the public by Parliament to come forth with any evidence on the bribery and corruption allegations made against some Legislators. They Network is of the opinion that the House should have instituted an internal investigation into the matter rather than resorting to the ...

Dancehall artiste, Shatta Wale has hit the studios with Jamaican artiste Jah Vinci. Their collaboration comes days after they both mounted the stage at the Accra Sports Stadium for the GH All Star LIVE concert. Both acts look excited at the opportunity to work together, and are expected to tap into their combined experiences. Wale, ...

Kumawood actor, Kojo Nkansah popoularly known as Lil’ Wyn, is reported to have knocked down a 10-year-old boy with his Toyota car with registration number GT-8224-12. According to reports, instead of getting out of his car to help the victim, Lil’Wyn sat in his car unconcerned till officials from the Red Cross Society attended to the boy. As the atmosphere got tensed, Lil’Wyn still ...

Players in the nascent gaming industry are up in arms against the Gaming Commission over a new fee structure which they describe as “astronomical” and capable of crippling the gaming industry. The new fees, which are between 100 and 500 per cent increase over the previous ones, have seen, for example, the Gaming Licence, which ...

Saudi Arabia has issued a list of 50 names new parents are banned from giving their children, including Linda, Lauren, Sandy and Amir. The Arab nation’s interior ministry justified the ban by saying the names either contradicted the culture or religion of the kingdom, or were foreign, or ‘inappropriate’. Among the others are Alice, Elaine ...

A French court has jailed former Rwandan spy chief Pascal Simbikangwa for 25 years over the 1994 genocide. In a landmark trial, Simbikangwa was found guilty of complicity in genocide and complicity in crimes against humanity. It was not immediately clear whether his lawyers would appeal. Simbikangwa, 54, who is paraplegic after a car crash, ...

The communications systems of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 were deliberately disabled, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak has said. The new evidence, based on satellite and radar tracking of the plane, is “consistent with the deliberate action of someone on the plane”, he said. The investigation is “now entering a new phase”, he said, focusing ...

The General Secretary for the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Kofi Asamoah-Siaw has called for the dismissal of the Mayor of Accra, Alfred Oko Vanderpuijie. His reasons for the call is that “the traffic situation is bad, the city is engulfed in filth, so what are the achievements of the Mayor ever since he was given ...