The University of Ghana (UG) on Saturday held a remembrance service for the late Professor Kwadwo Asenso-Okyere; a former Vice Chancellor of the university. Prof Asenso-Okyere, who was Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana from 2002 to 2006, died on Saturday, May 10, 2014 while on a Food and Agricultural Organisation mission outside Ghana. ...

Ronaldo has acknowledged it will be a while before Brazil come to terms with the impact of their 7-1 semi-final thrashing by Germany. The Selecao crashed out of the World Cup on Tuesday by the biggest margin of defeat of any semi-finalists in the tournament’s history, and now face the Netherlands in the third-place play off on Saturday. Ronaldo, who ...

The Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Sun Baohong has pledged China’s unflinching support for Ghana in her quest to generate adequate electricity to power the nation and accelerate economic growth. According to her, the government of Ghana’s target of achieving 10% renewable component of its electricity generation by 2020 will receive the full support of her ...

Two gunmen have shot dead a prominent Muslim businessman facing terrorism charges in the Kenyan city of Mombasa. Mohamed Shahid Butt was driving back from the airport on Friday evening when his car was blocked by another vehicle and two gunmen opened fire. Mr Butt was due to appear in court next month charged with ...

Alex Segbefia, Deputy Minister Designate for Defence, has promised to work with the sector Minister to investigate perceived regional and tribal imbalance in the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF). Expressing confidence in the substantive Minister, Mark Woyongo, Mr Segbefia assured Ghanaians they would work on the situation if it were found to be true. He made ...

The Brong Ahafo Regional Police Command has given owners of abandoned vehicles and motorbikes the end of August to pick up them up or lose them forever. This forms part of measures aimed at getting rid of abandoned vehicles and motorbikes at all Police Stations in the Brong Ahafo region, The general public has since ...

The Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA) will on Sunday, July 13, organize a candlelight procession in Ada for missing Hiplife artiste, Castro. Castro, also known as Theophilus Tagoe and his female companion, Janet Bandu, have been missing since last weekend when they went jet skiing in Ada last week. The two are suspected to have ...

The Peasant Farmers Association of Ghana (PFAG) have made a passionate appeal to the government to immediately release fertilizers to farmers to avert low crop yield this year and imminent food shortage in the country next year. The President of PFAG, Mohammed Adam Nashiru, said the non-availability of fertilizers for farmers for this year’s planting ...

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 ...