Sir Alex Ferguson will play a key role choosing David Moyes’s replacement as Manchester United manager. Moyes, who was hand-picked by Ferguson as his successor last year, was sacked on Tuesday after 10 months in charge. Ferguson will be part of a selection panel consisting of every Manchester United board member. During his 26-year reign ...
Sachet water consumers in Kumasi are to brace themselves to pay more for the product after local producers raised the price of the commodity on Wednesday. Wednesday’s decision by the Sachet Water Producers Association in Kumasi raised the price of a bag of water from GHS1.80 to GHS 3. The association has therefore called on ...
Viasat1 has launched its maiden Corporate Responsibility project – Game Changers. Game Changers is a project in partnership with Reach for Change- Corporate Responsibility partner from the Kinnevik Group. Game Changers aims to find that social entrepreneur with an idea or plan that can improve education of children in their communities. The goal is to ...
The Revenue Watch Institute has revealed in its latest report that some key government agencies failed to implement the laws, rules and policies governing Ghana’s natural resources funds. The report implicated the Finance Ministry, the Bank of Ghana, the Auditor General, Ghana Revenue Authority among others, for failing to ensure the appropriate use of Ghana’s ...
The Vice President, Mr K.B. Amissah-Arthur, says the recent measures announced by the Bank of Ghana are not meant to frustrate investors. Rather, they are aimed at reducing over dollarization of the economy. The Vice President pointed this out when he hosted officials of Sumitomo Corporation and Cen Power at the Flagstaff House, Accra on ...
Security personnel in the Tamale metropolis are on high alert following recent shooting incidents in the area. Recent shooting incidents at Savelugu and the Tamale Township have so far recorded four deaths. Ahead of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) national delegates’ conference held in Tamale, additional police personnel were drawn from Bolga, Sunyani and Accra ...
The Ghana Highway Authority (GHA) has been directed to remove all illegal speed humps on the country’s highways. They have also been asked to replace those they remove with appropriately designed ones and provide corridors that need the facility to reduce the high rate at which members of communities are erecting the illegal speed humps. ...
Pressure group calling itself Coalition of Concerned Ghanaian Muslim Pilgrims has called for a reduction of the 2014 Hajj fares. The National Hajj Committee at a recent News conference pegged the 2014 Hajj fares at $3,450. However, the Coalition of Concerned Ghanaian Muslim Pilgrims claimed potential Pilgrims could not afford to pay the said amount. ...
A former Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has slammed the Al Hajj newspaper, accusing it of pursuing an agenda “to manufacture lies and destroy people.†“The work of the media is not to manufacture lies to destroy people, even if those people are seen as political opponents of the ...
Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku has started “a consultative tour†of the country to collate views on his intention to contest the flagbearship race of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), his office has said. The tour, according to Dr. Apraku’s Spokesperson, will also solicit the support of members of the NPP as the former Minister for ...
Citi Business News has gathered state pension fund manger SSNIT and the regulator of the cocoa industry COCOBOD are likely to sell their shares in HFC bank to Republic bank. SSNIT currently owns about 26 percent of shares in the bank while COCOBOD has 5.57 percent. If the sale goes ahead Republic bank which is ...
Residents of Sakogu in the East Mamprusi District in the Northern region have fled the community into the forest following a shooting incident today that left one person dead. Wednesday’s shooting follows similar occurrences which has left people in and around some communities living in fear. Yesterday the northern regional police command arrested four persons ...
Policy Analyst, Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobbey has challenged Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) who disagree with government’s decision of signing the Economic Partnership Agreement(EPA) with the European Union (EU) to provide alternative solutions to the country’s economic challenges. According to him the EPA “is not a one way track to dump EU goods and services onto us. ...
I got into a spot of bother recently for ‘putting the knife’ to one of our sacred cows. I put our civil society organizations (CSOs) into the same field as our politicians, opining that they only call on others to act instead of them taking charge and leading. Now I find it necessary, nay imperative, ...
Arrangements for the final funeral rites of Fennec Okyere have been announced by his family. The late Fennec Okyere was murdered in his house on Thursday 13th March, 2014 by unknown assailants. According to the spokesperson for the family, Ursula Owusu Ekufful – MP for Ablekuma West, there will be no wake keeping. Fennec’s body ...
A delegation from the family of Suweiba Mumin, the woman whose baby went missing at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital recently, is scheduled to meet the Nursing and Midwifery Council in Accra on Wednesday. Sources close to the family say Suweiba will be part of the delegation but have declined to give details. Although the ...
Ghana has accused Iran of peddling falsehood about a US-flagged plane spotted in Tehran recently, setting the stage for possible diplomatic row between the former British colony and the Islamic Republic. Iran had said that the plane, which landed in Tehran last week, was leased to the office of Ghana’s President, and carrying a business ...
Merchant bank has been re-branded to Universal Merchant bank. Customers of Merchant bank will from today see a different look for the bank. The bank yesterday re-branded from Merchant bank to Universal Merchant bank. This will see its former colours blue and white change to black and yellow. The bank following its new look ...
Newly elected executives of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) will formally take over the realm of affairs as the old executives officially handover and render accounts today. The new executives, led by the party Chairman, Paul Afoko were sworn in on April 13 in Tamale after the party’s delegates’ conference in the Northern regional capital. ...
Google is refunding users who unsuspectingly bought a fake anti-virus app from its Play Store. The Virus Shield app reached the number one ranking in the Play Store with over 10,000 downloads before it was removed. The fake app was uncovered by news site Android Police, which looked at the app’s code and discovered it ...
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