Tickets for 60 out of the 64 matches will be up for sale to the general public in the second window of the second sales phase, which starts on Wednesday 12 March at 12h00 CET /08h00 Brasilia. No tickets are available for the Opening Match in Sao Paulo and the Final in Rio de Janeiro, ...

Libya’s parliament has dismissed PM Ali Zeidan after a tanker laden with oil from a rebel-held port reportedly broke through a naval blockade. MPs called a vote of confidence in Mr Zeidan after they were told the North Korean-flagged ship had escaped to sea. Defence Minister Abdullah al-Thinni was named interim prime minister. Earlier, Libyan ...

Five persons, including a one-year-old baby, lost their lives when they got trapped in a mine pit at Akokonso, near the Odaw River in the Amansie Central District in the Ashanti Region. They have been identified as Adwoa Konadu, 27; Atobra Akwasi, 42; Kwadwo Addai, 34; his wife Adwoa Anokyewaa, 27, and their baby Sarah ...

Just because a device isn’t a hot seller doesn’t mean it’s not worth your time. As we observed with the BlackBerry Z30′s impressive capabilities as a messaging device, sometimes a mobile device simply does certain things better than the iPhone or Samsung’s Galaxy devices even if it has no hope of ever matching them in ...

A man who spent more than 25 years on death row in the US state of Louisiana has walked free from prison after his murder conviction for the 1983 killing of a jeweller was overturned. Glenn Ford, 64, had been on death row since August 1988. He had been found guilty of killing 56-year-old Isadore ...

Executive Director of the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), Mr Vitus Azeem has called for the establishment of an independent body to investigate the corruption allegation made by former Majority Leader, Alban Bagbin against MPs. The Nadowli Kaleo MP accused MPs of taking bribes at a seminar in Koforidua organised by the Business Sector Advocacy Challenge (BUSAC) Fund. ...

Vodafone Wholesale, a subsidiary of Vodafone Ghana, says it will build strategic partnerships with Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and telecom operators to increase internet penetration in the country. “Internet penetration in the country is low. Our commitment is to enable ISPs in the market to take advantage of our backbone to expand and offer services ...

Minority spokesperson on Finance, Dr Anthony Akoto Osei has proposed that government develop a 20 percent retrenchment plan to reduce the size of the public sector next year. According to the Member of Parliament for Old Tafo this should be part of a number of strategies to cut down government expenditure. Speaking at the Graphic-Fidelity ...

A father-of-two left his wedding ring and watch to give to his children in case something happened to him before boarding the missing Malaysia Airlines flight as he flew out to start a dream job in Mongolia. Mechanical engineer Paul Weeks, 39, of Perth, Australia, was on the flight as he made his way to ...

A political  youth group associated with the New Patriotic Party (NPP) known as the Kandaha Boys in Tamale Aboabo has disassociated itself from the shooting incident which claimed one life in Tamale on Monday March, 10. The Kandaha boys were linked to the death of one Mustapha Abdul Rashid, who was killed by unknown assailants ...

The MTN FA Cup round of 32 clash between second tier league side, Rospack FC and Premier League side, King Faisal will finally come off on Wednesday, March 12 at the Sekondi Gyandu Park with the winner facing Metro Stars on the 22nd of March, 2014. Progress for either side will put them into Round of ...

Medeama Sporting Club has expressed certainty in beating Hearts of Oak in Wednesday’s First Capital Plus Premier League match at the Tarkwa T and A Park. The match, which is being played on Wednesday due to Medeama’s participation in the CAF Confederations Cup, will be the first for the Yellow and Mauves after qualifying into ...

Eyewitnss News with Shamima Muslim

Glo Mobile Ghana, a subsidiary of Globacom, Africa’s indigenous Telecommunications Company, has announced that it is sponsoring a contingent of pre-paid customers on its network to watch and cheer Ghana to victory in Brazil. In a press release issued on Tuesday, Glo announced a unique package of excitement for pre-paid customers on the network, saying ...

Family of the late Bimbila chief Naa-Salifu Dawuni has requested for the body in burial. The Northern Regional Security Council (RECSEC) still possesses the body of the late chief deposited at the Yendi hospital Morgue. Attempts to bury the late chief in Bimbila resulted into sporadic gun shots that led to one death whiles several ...

President John Dramani Mahama has appealed to Ghana’s donor partners especially the United Kingdom to stand by the country through its current challenges. The President said this when the outgoing British High Commissioner to Ghana, Peter Jones paid a farewell call on him at the flagstaff house in Accra. While listing the various projects and ...

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Half-caste babies for sale. You don’t believe it? But just a few weeks ago, a Ghanaian businessman was trying to convince families to use Caucasian sperm donors to have mixed-race babies. At the time, he said he had at least ten families buying in. But the proposal has raised concerns over Ghana’s lack of regulations ...

Health Minister, Sherry Ayittey has told stakeholders in the health sector that the success of the National Health Insurance Scheme [NHIS] is a collective responsibility. She partly credited progress made so far by the NHIA to stakeholders, stating that “it was done by the collective contribution of you stakeholders.” The Minister made the comment when ...

A youth group suspected to be supporters of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Tamale reportedly attacked Tamale based Radio Justice and destroyed property belonging to the station. Sources on the ground reported that they went there to attack the deputy Secretary to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for Tamale central constituency , Ahmed Faisal  ...