President John Mahama has tasked newly sworn in Ministers and Deputies to eschew corruption and work to improve the lives of Ghanaians. The President made the call when he sworn in 11 appointees to various ministerial and deputy ministerial positions. According to the President, Ghana’s current challenges require creativity and hard work thus he expects ...
England captain Steven Gerrard has retired from international football after winning 114 caps. Gerrard, 34, won his first cap in a 2-0 win over Ukraine in 2000 and played for the last time at the 2014 World Cup in a 0-0 draw with Costa Rica. “I have enjoyed every minute of representing my country. It’s ...
Striker Didier Drogba is considering a one-year deal to return to Chelsea. The Ivory Coast international, a free agent after leaving Galatasaray, left Stamford Bridge in 2012 after scoring the winning penalty in the Champions League final against Bayern Munich. Drogba’s representatives say a decision has not yet been made and that Chelsea is one ...
It is very sad that a serious issue such as the alleged drowning of hiplife artiste, Castro, and his female companion, Janet Bandu at Ada during a Jet Ski accident on Sunday, July 6, has in some cases been reduced to mere mockery. Even if we refuse to see the seriousness of the issue at ...
The Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Haruna Iddrisu has told Citi News the planned-nationwide protest by Organized Labour will do little to address their concerns. “I am convinced that a strike will not resolve those concerns and grievances that they have been articulated,†he remarked. Organized Labour has admonished its members to stay away ...
The Parliamentary Select Committee on Education will be meeting striking Polytechnic Teachers Association of Ghana (POTAG) members on Tuesday over their almost two- month- long strike. The Polytechnic teachers have been on strike for more than two months over their unpaid book and research allowance, forcing Polytechnics across the country to shutdown. An Accra Human ...
Fierce fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas militants continued near Gaza City on Monday as the death toll from the conflict rose above 500. Heavy bombardment hit areas east of the city, particularly the neighborhood of Shaja’ia, where a large Israeli assault Sunday contributed to the deadliest day of the war so far. As clashes ...
Professor Stephen Adei, Former Rector of Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), has called on stakeholders to urgently work together to ensure better outcome from public basic schools. He said such outcome will be achieved through effective decentralisation of Ghana Education Service (GES), as well as putting school management and communities in charge ...
The Controller and Accountant Generals Department (CAGD) deleted 3,179 ghost names from the pay rolls of public institutions in Greater Accra alone between April and June this year. This was as a result of the implementation of the Electronic Salary Payment Voucher System (E-SPV) system. This was disclosed by Ms Grace Adzroe, Controller and Accountant ...
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) will next week issue a three year bond to raise an amount of 400million Ghana cedis. It will be the third bond issued this year. Government in March cancelled plans to issue a 5-year domestic bond worth 300 million cedis without providing any reasons. There were reports that government had ...
Ghana’s favourite monthly old school treat, the Tulip Mirror Ball will on this Friday to mark the end of the month of July. This event comes just in time to provide hundreds with the unmatched experience of a genuine escape to the bell bottomed and afro combed days when your battery powered boom boxes were ...
“Resentment,” the late South African president Nelson Mandela once said, “is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” Yet we all know how hard it can be to let go of past grievances. I have met couples who can’t remember what they had for dinner last night but have miraculously instant recall when ...
The construction of seven day Senior High Schools (SHS) in the Brong Ahafo Region is set to commence. The Deputy Minister in-charge of pre-tertiary education, Alex Kyereme is currently in the region break grounds for the construction of the schools in fulfilment of the government’s plan to build seventy three schools within the next eighteen months. ...
There appeared little danger when Juan Caudrado directed a looping header towards James Rodriguez, whose back was to goal on the edge of the box, 28 minutes into Colombia’s quarter-final against Uruguay at the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™. Yet two touches from heaven, and just two seconds later, Fernando Muslera’s net had rippled and ...
A former President of the Ghana Football Association, Nana Brew Butler, has made an earnest call on government to utilize sports as a medium to keep the Ghanaian youth off the streets. He believes the youth of the country who risk falling to various forms of social vices will have a positive platform to channel ...
Chelsea have confirmed that winger Mohamed Salah has been spared national service in Egypt. It was feared that Salah would be forced to return home to Egypt to fulfil the military obligation that lasts between one and three years, but he has been given permission to continue his promising career at Stamford Bridge. The 22-year-old ...
Ten thousand, eight hundred and eight, voice subscribers of Expresso ditched the network in the month of May, 2014. This is according to the May market share report of the National Communications Authority (NCA). The report also indicated that 287,000 voice subscribers were added to the existing 28.8 million, increasing it to 29.1million mobile voice ...
Members of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union(ICU) are currently demonstrating in Tema. The demonstration is to protest what the Union describes as worsening economic conditions in the country. The Union says the high cost of living and the depreciating cedi among others is gradually becoming insurmountable hence the decision to protest. The Tema Regional Officer ...
The Algerian Football Federation has named former Lorient manager, Christian Gourcuff as the new coach of the national football team. Gourcuff replaces Vahid Halilhodzic, who resigned after guiding Algeria to the second round of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. The Frenchman will officially take over the national team on August 1, and has signed a ...
Last Saturday may turn out as one of the darkest days for Miss Inna Mariam Patty, organiser of the Miss Ghana pageant, when she walked into a veritable minefield with only a calabash for a helmet. More than one week after Miss Patty was said to have ignored all telephone calls from the media, the ...
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