The 2012 Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo- Addo has advised government to pursue efficient management of its resources and projects to restore confidence in Ghana’s troubled economy. Nana Addo was speaking at a symposium organised by the Royal African Society and the Centre of African Studies in London on Monday. ...

The Police administration will on Thursday close some selected principal streets in Accra for the 57th Independence Anniversary parade. The roads to be affected include the 28th February Road to the Castle Junction, the Osu Cemetery Traffic Light to the Accra Sports Stadium, the Starlets 95 road and the Cross Road towards the Independence Arch. ...

Libya’s parliament has moved to a five-star hotel in the capital Tripoli, a day after protesters stormed the building killing a guard and wounding six legislators. Parliamentary sessions moved to the Waddan hotel on Monday, the day after after armed with knives and guns, dozens of angry protesters swept the parliament chamber while it was ...

The Health Minister, Sherry Ayittey, has criticized the mode of selection of students into the Medical and Dental schools and has called for changes. She said the practice where admissions were based purely on grades scored at the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) tendered to favour students from the limited well-endowed senior high ...

A Muslim former minister has been hacked to death by machete-wielding men in the capital of the Central African Republic, as clashes escalated a day after interim President Catherine Samba-Panza took office. At least nine other people were killed when bands of people, some of them Christian self-defence groups, attacked and looted shops in the mostly Muslim Miskine neighbourhood of ...

Hundreds of protesters threw stones and chanted anti-government slogans in Mauritania’s capital after local media reported that Qurans were desecrated in a mosque. A young man was killed during the protests after apparently being hit by an exploding tear-gas canister, a hospital source said. A local government source confirmed the death but said the circumstances and ...

Having a hot temper may increase your risk of having a heart attack or stroke, according to researchers. Rage often precedes an attack and may be the trigger, say the US researchers who trawled medical literature. They identified a dangerous period of about two hours following an outburst when people were at heightened risk. But ...

Fewer crop species are feeding the world than 50 years ago – raising concerns about the resilience of the global food system, a study has shown. The authors warned a loss of diversity meant more people were dependent on key crops, leaving them more exposed to harvest failures. Higher consumption of energy-dense crops could also ...

Monday had been a particularly great day for me until news reached me that, Kwame Gyan, a colleague, brother and friend, has been suspended from work because he expressed his frustrations about the governance of our country on a social media platform. This development – akin to Idi Amin’s “There is freedom of speech, but ...

A neighbour of South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has told a court in Pretoria that she was awoken by a woman’s “terrible screams” in the early hours of 14 February 2013. Mr Pistorius has pleaded not guilty at the start of his trial for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. He shot dead the ...

Deputy Education Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has stated that the President’s announcement of free Senior High School (SHS) education in 2015 will start with students in public schools first. “Free means that from 2015 all day students in public senior high schools will not pay fees, government will absorb the fees,” he said. Throwing more light ...

The Executive Director of IMANI Ghana, Mr. Franklin Cudjoe says the Free Senior High School policy is a not timely intervention, considering the current economic challenges that Ghana is bedeviled with. “This is not the time to roll out this policy, and even if it was time, the way it was even announced shows a ...

Featuring a delicious chip from Malaysia, a long-range free-kick from Brazil, a scissor-kick from Israel and a Pittodrie piledriver Kyaw Ko Ko (YANGON v Kelantan) Hamdi Slihi (Maccabi Haifa v HAPOEL ACRE) Elano (FLAMENGO v Emelec) Mirko Antenucci (TERNANA v Spezia) Aleix Febas (REAL MADRID v Napoli Youth Team) Jordi Gómez (Nottingham Forest v WIGAN ...

Jan Koum and Brian Acton, the cofounders of WhatsApp, made Forbes’ annual billionaires’ list with few moments to spare after Facebook offered a total of $19 billion to buy the company. The deal, if completed, will give Koum a fortune of $6.8 billion, according to Forbes. Acton will be worth at least $3 billion. The two were the subject of ...

Medeama Sporting Club have told Citi Sports in an interview that the team have already started preparations for the second leg of the first round of the CAF Confederation Cup against MAS Fez of Morocco. Ebenezer Aidoo, the club’s Public Relations Officer explained that they were getting ready for any eventuality they could face in the North ...

Wimbledon champion Murray will join Jo-Wilfried Tsonga Victoria Azarenka, Daniel Nestor, Carlos Moya, Kirsten Flipkens in the Bangkok team. The line-ups were confirmed at the player auction which was held in Dubai with Singapore, Mumbai and Dubai also having teams. Novak Djokovic will lead the Dubai side, with Pete Sampras andRafael Nadal in the Mumbai team; meanwhile, Andre Agassi ...

Former Black Stars defender Samuel Johnson has advised the national team to rope in leaders in the team’s defence ahead of the 2014 World Cup. According to Johnson, the team lacks an organiser at the back to help direct matters especially as the nation faces top quality sides in Germany, Portugal and the United States. ...

Workers of the Ghana Railway Company Limited (GRCL)  have expressed fears about government’s plans to transform the ailing company. According to them, there is a likelihood for them to become redundant after the numerous rehabilitation works ongoing in the sector. They are therefore concerned about their fate as government rolls out its plans for the project ...

Legal practitioner, Chris Akcumey is calling for the prosecution of the three ladies who allegedly shoplifted at Mr Price at the Accra Mall. The police have arrested the security personnel who manhandled the three ladies, and will soon process them for court. The security personnel have been criticized publicly for ordering the three girls to ...

Just for the heck of it, let us say any country where more than one in twenty – five percent of the population, that is – is condemned to open defecation as a fact of daily and regular life, is a Buffoon state. For in that one single fact is bound to be a failure ...