It has been a weird week in health news. First doctors said that Justin Bieber might save young boys’ lives (the “hip” bowl cut is actually a form of sun protection — skin cancer be gone!), and now scientists out of the University of Exeter insist that smelling farts could actually prevent cancer, among other ...

Communications and Governance Consultant, Kathleen Addy is asking the Ministry of Youth and Sports to publish the list of Ghanaian supporters it sent to Brazil to support the Black Stars in the 2014 World Cup. This she said will enable the government identify the individuals who are still in Brazil. Her request comes after hundreds of Ghanaian ...

Drake and Chris Brown, who were famously involved in bar brawl back in 2012, are snapped working closely together in a recording studio. It seems the feud is over. The two stars, who were known to hate each other in the past, now seem to be the best of friends. A photo has emerged on Instagram of ...

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has disclosed that the first tranche of subsidy payments to government assisted Senior High Schools (SHS) will be effected next week between July 14 and 19. This comes after the Conference of Heads of Assisted Secondary Schools (CHASS) threatened to close down schools due to the delay in subsidy payments ...

Mathew Amponsah, the State Attorney prosecuting the National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, on Thursday prayed the Accra Financial Court to give the State some time to go through the record of proceedings on the trial before going ahead with cross-examining the accused. He told the court that they were yet to get ...

The Brong Ahafo Regional House of Chiefs have reiterated their resolve to demonstrate against the passage of the Plant Builders Bill currently under consideration in parliament, if parliament does not address the concerns raised by civil society. The Chiefs have petitioned Parliament through the clerk of Parliament and according to them, they will demonstrate to ...

The road transport operators in collaboration with the Ministry of Transport  have sanction a 15% increment in transport fares effective Monday, July 14. This is according to a press statement signed by the general secretary of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU), Stephen K. Okudzeto and General Secretary of the Ghana Road Transport Coordinating Council ...

The Deeper Christian Life Ministry (DCLM) has bemoaned the fast pace at which social ills are claiming the lives of the youth in recent times. “Social perversion, homosexuality; an abomination which is currently gaining currency, drug abuse, lesbianism, corruption etc have left all well meaning Ghanaians worried about the future of our society”, the National ...

An outbreak of cholera is putting thousands of lives at risk in parts of South Sudan, worsening the country’s humanitarian crisis amid ongoing violence, according to the aid group Save the Children. The disease has infected more than 2,600 people and killed at least 60 since the first cases were reported in the capital, Juba, ...

Child education and maternal health care in three Asante-Akim Central communities are threatened following the collapse of two bridges, cutting them from the rest of the municipality. Travelling from one community to another is difficult as children and pregnant women at Boatengkrom, Nyamebekyere and Nsiakrom, have to make a round trip of 12 kilometres to ...

Midland Savings and Loans has presented a brand new Hyundai Elantra to Joey B (of Tonga fame), for winning the New Artist of the Year at this year’s Ghana Music Awards. The car was part of Joey B’s prize package for winning New Artist of the Year at the VGMAs, which came off on May ...

The mayor of San Pedro Huamelula, Mexico, has wed a crocodile as part of a local tradition. The village believes the marriage between the mayor and the crocodile, who is considered a princess, will boost the number of fish the village catches this summer. The local community gets into it — everyone in the village ...

Fifa has announced the shortlist for the 2014 Golden Ball, the prize awarded to the best player at the World Cup. Argentina have three nominees in Angel Di Maria, Javier Mascherano and Lionel Messi, while their opponents in Sunday’s final Germany, have four. Mats Hummels, Toni Kroos, Phillip Lahm and Thomas Muller are the players ...

Armed assailants attacked a village on Kenya’s coast, stole guns from police reservists and burnt down a primary school, an official said on Friday, in the latest in a series of raids since mid-June that have killed about 100 people. There were no immediate reports of casualties in the attack on Thursday night in the ...

High numbers of new cases of the Ebola virus are being reported in Sierra Leone and Liberia, with 19 deaths over three days this week, the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) says. Such figures showed that it was a race against time to control the epidemic in Sierra Leone, medical charity MSF said. In total ...

The Electoral Commission (EC) has announced that the revision of the voters register will take place from July 25 to August 3, 2014. The voters registration is opened to Ghanaians who have attained 18 years since the main registration exercise took place in 2012 and persons above 18 years who were unable to register. A ...