The Passport Office is delaying the issuance of new passports due to a shortage of the green booklet used to produce the document. A source with knowledge of the situation said Buck Press, the company that supplies the booklets, has held back new supplies because it has not been paid for previous deliveries. The situation ...
Exclusive Events Ghana, organizers of the Miss Ghana event, the longest running beauty pageant in Ghana, has with immediate effect relieved the reigning queen, Miss Giuseppina Nana Akua Baafi of her role as Miss Ghana 2013 Ambassador. The decision, Exclusive Events say has been reached after Miss Baafi’s decision to stand down as Miss Ghana ...
Lawyer and sports journalist Samuel Bartels has stated that Ghana is, for the time being, free from punishment from world football governing body FIFA following the establishment of a committee by the Sports Minister, Mahama Ayariga, on Friday to investigate the Black Stars performance in Brazil in the World Cup. Ghana exited at the first ...
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Equatorial Guinea have been disqualified from the play-offs for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco for fielding an ineligible player. The organising committee of the competition ruled that Thierry Fidieu Tazemeta, who was born in Cameroon, should not have played in the first round first leg victory over Mauritania on 17 May. It ...
The elimination of the Black Stars from the ongoing 2014 World Cup tournament in Brazil cast a dull mood on Ghanaians who felt let down and disappointed. This huge disappointment coupled with the acute fuel shortage which hit parts of the country especially, the capital city increased the frustrations of the general public. In a ...
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has submitted reports on the collapsed Melcom and Nii Boi Town buildings to the Ghana Police Service for investigations. This follows the partial collapse of another building at Bubuashie in Accra on Thursday, raising concerns about the AMA’s inablity to check the integrity of buildings in the capital. This is ...
Indigenous bank, HFC was the best performing stock on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) for the first half of this year. The Ghana Stock Exchange returned about 10 percent from the beginning of the year to midyear. This is not as impressive as last year, as the market returned about 50 percent for the same ...
Sports broadcaster and legal practitioner Moses Foh Amoaning has been named as part of a three member committee to investigate Ghana’s participation at the World Cup in Brazil. In a statement signed by the minister of Youth and Sports, Mahama Ayariga, Foh Amoaning joins the committee chaired by Appeals Courts judge, Senyo Dzamafeh, and completed ...
German goalkeeper, Manuel Neuer, has indicated that the “Mannschaft” will have to improve on their performance from their previous four games at the tournament if they are to beat France in their quarter final encounter. According to him their current output as a team isn’t worthy of winning them the World Cup. “We are not ...
Algeria forward Islam Slimani has revealed that he and his team-mates are donating their money to people in Gaza. The north African side won the hearts and minds of many with their heroic effort in pushing Germany to extra-time in their round of 16 World Cup clash. And now their display of generosity to the ...
A seven-year-old Brazilian boy has been named after so many French football stars that he struggles to pronounce his own name. He is called Zinedine Yazid Zidane Thierry Henry Barthez Eric Felipe Silva Santos. The little Zidane, as he is simply known, can pronounce his first three names without a problem but stumbles after that. ...
The energy situation in the country is set to improve slightly following the completion of repair works on the Takoradi International Company (TICO) power plant. The plant was shut down for regular maintenance works which worsened the energy situation in the country. The 220 megawatts power plant was until recently producing only 110 megawatts; a ...
African champions Nigeria risk an international ban due to government interference after a court sacked the football federation’s executive committee. Nigerian Sports Minister Tammy Danagogo, on Thursday, appointed Lawrence Katiken as sole administrator of the NFF. The move comes in the wake of Nigeria’s Soccer World Cup campain which came to an end on Monday ...
Foundation for Security and Development in Africa (FOSDA) is calling on the media and stakeholders to help develop a gender equality policy guideline at various workplaces to act as watchdogs on any violations. The Programmes Officer of FOSDA, Theodora Anti appealed to the media to give prominence to such issues as a means of empowering ...
The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), has welcomed moves by Parliament to enact new laws to help fight corruption in the country. On Thursday, the House adopted a National Anti-Corruption Action Plan to guide national discourse on corruption. This was after the Member of Parliament (MP) for Offinso South; Ben Abdullah Bandah ...
Neymar has put himself at the risk of punishment by FIFA after wearing a pair of Beats by Dre headphonesâ€â€a brand banned from the World Cup due to the governing body’s deal with Sonyâ€â€during a press conference in Brazil. The Samba star, who is one goal behind upcoming opponent James Rodriguez in the battle for ...
Okyeame Kwame’s campaign against Hepatitis B is gradually reaching its pinnacle, a statement from his foundation reads. With five years of providing education campaign and free screening of Hepatitis B to the general Ghanaian populace, the Okyeame Kwame Foundation looks forward to activate the Hepatitis B project in a grand style this year. He hopes ...
Mfantsipim Boys Seconday School have been adjudged winners of the 2014 edition of the National Science and Maths Quiz after beating Ghana Secondary Technical School and St. Francis Xavier Jr. Seminary in the final round of the competition. This will be the second time the School has won the competition after winning its first in ...
General Motors has halted production at its main South African plant because of the strike by the country’s National Union of Metalworkers. The US car giant has not been able to access component parts for its cars. GM told the BBC that its production line was down, but that it has enough cars to sell ...
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